Stanley Kubrick created some of the most revered works in cinema history, both critically lauded and hugely successful at the box office, while maintaining a singular vision across genres. This series includes all of Kubrick’s features, a few of his early short documentaries, and two films he prepared to make but that were ultimately completed by others.
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The film 2001: A Space Odyssey employs a widescreen, epic format for metaphysical use. It was conceived less as a science fiction narrative than as an experience in space and time, re-creating the dimensions of outer space by taking us beyond deep focus into infinite focus.
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With candlelit wit, Stanley Kubrick’s blithely ribald eighteenth-century tale recounts a young Irishman’s striving to become an English aristocrat. “The funniest, the most stately, and at once the loveliest and most alienating of Kubrick’s films” (Ari Aster).
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Stanley Kubrick’s first feature is an existentialist exercise in the futility of war, with a squad of soldiers stranded behind enemy lines. Who are the soldiers and who is the enemy? Screens with two early Kubrick documentaries, Flying Padre (1951) and The Seafarers (1953).
In this gritty noir, an exhausted taxi dancer and a has-been boxer must endure the jealous jockeying of a nightclub owner. Screens with Stanley Kubrick’s first film, the boxing documentary Day of the Fight (1951).
Sterling Hayden heads up a phenomenal cast of B players plotting a racetrack holdup in Stanley Kubrick’s high-voltage thriller. “Not to be missed” (Chicago Reader).
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Stanley Kubrick’s nightmare comedy about the threat of nuclear annihilation is “devastatingly more effective via hilarious ridicule than any number of cautionary fables” (Michael Mann).
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A grand entry in the pantheon of great antiwar films, Paths of Glory stands beside films like All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Grand Illusion (1937), but it stands alone for its fearless criticism of the high command and its obvious rank.
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Stanley Kubrick was originally hired to direct One-Eyed Jacks, but he left the project just prior to shooting. Star Marlon Brando took the reins, and it became his first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. “Mean, moody, and magnificent” (Time Out).
A bumbling professor, played by James Mason, preys on an underage girl in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the notorious Vladimir Nabokov novel. Peter Sellers and Shelley Winters add their own scene-stealing peculiarities to this pitch-black, comical retelling.
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One of Stanley Kubrick’s more controversial outings, A Clockwork Orange is set in the near future and follows the ultraviolent escapades of Alex, a demented, sociopathic, Beethoven-loving gang leader. “A spectacularly acted, directed, and designed motion picture” (Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune).
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A married couple (Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) free-fall through a psychological landscape of sexuality and fantasy. “A spellbinder: provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot, and masterfully executed” (Chicago Tribune).
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Also screens Friday, July 31 (without guest).
A limited quantity of the book Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” is available for purchase at the BAMPFA Store.
Stanley Kubrick reinvents horror as blocked writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) terrorizes his family at a mountain retreat. “A majestically terrifying movie, where what you don’t see or comprehend shadows every move the characters make” (Martin Scorsese).
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Also screens Sunday, July 26 with introduction, post-screening discussion, and book signing.
Stanley Kubrick reinvents horror as blocked writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) terrorizes his family at a mountain retreat. “A majestically terrifying movie, where what you don’t see or comprehend shadows every move the characters make” (Martin Scorsese).
Sterling Hayden heads up a phenomenal cast of B players plotting a racetrack holdup in Stanley Kubrick’s high-voltage thriller. “Not to be missed” (Chicago Reader).
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After a few weeks of shooting, Stanley Kubrick replaced veteran director Anthony Mann at the helm of this sword-and-sandals epic and established his blockbuster bonafides. A buff Kirk Douglas stars as the proud slave who leads a revolt against the Roman Republic.
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The madness of the Vietnam War, as seen through Stanley Kubrick’s disorienting vision. “May be the best war movie ever made” (Globe and Mail).
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Stanley Kubrick’s nightmare comedy about the threat of nuclear annihilation is “devastatingly more effective via hilarious ridicule than any number of cautionary fables” (Michael Mann).
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The film 2001: A Space Odyssey employs a widescreen, epic format for metaphysical use. It was conceived less as a science fiction narrative than as an experience in space and time, re-creating the dimensions of outer space by taking us beyond deep focus into infinite focus.
What if rather than turning homicidal, like HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, an artificial intelligence was built for unconditional love? After Stanley Kubrick developed the project for years, Steven Spielberg picked up the story of a young robot boy (uncannily played by Haley Joel Osment) on an odyssey to become a real boy.
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With candlelit wit, Stanley Kubrick’s blithely ribald eighteenth-century tale recounts a young Irishman’s striving to become an English aristocrat. “The funniest, the most stately, and at once the loveliest and most alienating of Kubrick’s films” (Ari Aster).
4K Digital Restoration
The film 2001: A Space Odyssey employs a widescreen, epic format for metaphysical use. It was conceived less as a science fiction narrative than as an experience in space and time, re-creating the dimensions of outer space by taking us beyond deep focus into infinite focus.
Imported Uncensored 35mm Archival Print
A married couple (Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) free-fall through a psychological landscape of sexuality and fantasy. “A spellbinder: provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot, and masterfully executed” (Chicago Tribune).