Vivian Kubrick in "" (1968), as a guest at Bryan's birthday party in "Barry Lyndon" (1975), as a guest on a ballroom couch in "The Shining" (1980), and as a news camera operator in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). In her late teens, Kubrick directed, filmed, and edited a half-hour documentary for the BBC, "The Making of "The Shining"", which is included on all DVDs and many videotapes of the film. She composed the score to his next film, "Full Metal Jacket", using the pseudonym Abigail Mead. She also shot 18 hours of footage for a documentary on the making of the film,
Full Metal Jacket into a series of self-contained set pieces, none of them quite satisfying" and concluded that the film's message was "too little and too late", having been done by other Vietnam War films. However, Ebert also gave praise to Ermey and D'Onofrio, saying "these are the two best performances in the movie, which never recovers after they leave the scene." This review angered Gene Siskel on their television show "At The Movies"; he criticized Ebert for liking "Benji the Hunted" (which came out the same week) more than "Full Metal Jacket". Their difference in opinion was parodied on the television show