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 Ermey, calling him "the film's stunning surprise ... he's so good—so obsessed—that you might think he wrote his own lines". Canby also said D'Onofrio's performance should be admired, and he called Modine "one of the best, most adaptable young film actors of his generation". Canby concluded: "Full Metal Jacket" was "a film of immense and very rare imagination". Jim Hall, writing for Film4 in 2010, awarded the film 5 out of 5 stars and added to the praise for Ermey, saying his "performance as the foul-mouthed Hartman is justly celebrated and it's difficult to imagine the film working anything like