Eyes Wide: The Films of Stanley Kubrick

9/4/14 to 10/31/14

This complete Kubrick retrospective begins with his first feature, 1953's Fear and Desire, an existentialist exercise in the futility of war, and ends with Eyes Wide Shut, an absurdist exercise in the depths of the erotic, released after his death in 1999. These thirteen films, made over a span of forty-six years, reveal the ever-curious, pessimistic, and meticulous mind of one our great directors.

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Fear and Desire & Killer's Kiss
Thursday, September 4 7:00 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1953 & 1955). A classic double bill of Kubrick's first two films, one an existentialist exercise in war's futility, the other a tough-as-nails noir set in the underbelly of New York City. (129 mins)
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Paths of Glory
Saturday, September 6 6:30 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1957). “Kubrick's first full-fledged masterpiece is a peerless insanity-of-war picture . . . Kirk Douglas has never been better” (Time Out NY). (87 mins)
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The Killing
Saturday, September 6 8:20 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1956). Sterling Hayden heads up a phenomenal cast of B players plotting a racetrack holdup in Kubrick's high-voltage thriller. “Not to be missed” (Chicago Reader). (84 mins)
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Spartacus
Saturday, September 13 7:00 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1960). Buff Kirk Douglas rides his chariot from slavery to freedom in Kubrick's remarkable epic. Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, and Charles Laughton add some thespian flair to this sword-and-sandals blockbuster. (197 mins)
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Lolita
Friday, September 19 7:30 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1962). James Mason falls for a rather underage girl in Kubrick's delightful adaptation of the notorious Nabokov novella. Peter Sellers and Shelley Winters add their own scene-stealing peculiarities to this pitch-black, comical retelling. (152 mins)
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Friday, October 3 7:30 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1968). Kubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. (160 mins)
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Saturday, October 4 8:40 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1964). 4K Restoration! Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott, and Peter Sellers (again) star in Kubrick's scathing satire on the nuclear age. Cold War camp, here brought to life in a luminous 4K restoration. (94 mins)
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A Clockwork Orange
Saturday, October 11 8:30 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1971). The droogs are coming, and they fancy a bit of the old ultraviolence, in this highly influential punk-anarchic vision of the future, starring Malcolm McDowell as a jack-booted psychotic on the loose. Often quoted, never topped. (136 mins)
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Barry Lyndon
Saturday, October 18 7:00 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1975). Kubrick's blithely ribald tale of a young Irishman longing to become an English aristocrat recounts, with candle-lit wit, his well-earned comeuppance. (184 mins)
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The Shining
Friday, October 24 7:30 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1980). Kubrick reinvents horror as a new kind of screwball comedy as Jack Nicholson terrorizes Shelley Duvall at a mountain retreat. “A majestically terrifying movie, where what you don't see or comprehend shadows every move the characters make” (Martin Scorsese). (144 mins)
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Full Metal Jacket
Saturday, October 25 8:30 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1987). The madness of the Vietnam War, as seen through Kubrick's disorienting vision. “May be the best war movie ever made” (Toronto Globe and Mail). “As embracing as a full-metal-jacketed bullet in the gut” (Newsweek). (116 mins)
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Eyes Wide Shut
Friday, October 31 7:30 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1999). Special Halloween Screening: Wear a Mask! A married couple (real-life duo 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). (159 mins)
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Eyes Wide: The Films of Stanley Kubrick

9/4/14 to 10/31/14

When Stanley Kubrick died on March 7, 1999, he left behind a dozen films, many of them truly groundbreaking, and one yet to open, Eyes Wide Shut. Thirteen films over a span of forty-six years, each the product of an ever-curious, pessimistic, and meticulous mind. The Killing, Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining: no genre eluded him, no technical challenge went unmet. And binding it all together: a fundamental distrust of life's worth, of the futility of filling the void with meaning. On the bright side, Kubrick was an auteur in the truest sense, writing his own scripts, pushing aside noted cinematographers, investigating technical innovations to advance his filmic vision, and demanding countless takes from his actors. Eyes Wide is a complete retrospective-beginning with his first feature, Fear and Desire, we follow Kubrick's restive mind as it grappled with cinematic space: rising through the dark earthiness of The Killing and Paths of Glory and the epic Spartacus, to the lascivious but literate Lolita and Dr. Strangelove's debunked militarism, and then to a literal ascension with the adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. The later years were fading to black: the fascistic falderol of A Clockwork Orange; the dimly lit, picaresque pageant Barry Lyndon; the jovially gothic The Shining; the combatively cynical Full Metal Jacket; and the free-fall through desire that is Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick once said regarding his patent fatalism, “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” Thankfully, Kubrick's “light” was in great supply.

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