Director Stanley Kubrick occupies an indelible place in film history. Known as an exacting technician, his films have been pored over by academics, filmmakers, fans, and cineastes alike. Never one to shy away from the controversial, the images he created nevertheless live on in memories and dream states decades later. A photographer by training, Kubrick moved into making short documentaries in the early 1950s before becoming an independent filmmaker and eventually moving into the studio system, where he had a contentious relationship with producers, financiers, and studio heads as he established a meticulous style that sometimes meant several years would pass between films. This series will bring all of his films to the big screen, including those early shorts, leading up to a screening of his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, on his birthday.
Dates and Titles:
April 5: Fear and Desire (Stanley Kubrick, 1952, 62 min., 35mm)
April 12 (2 p.m.): Dryden Roundtable: Stanley Kubrick
April 12: Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, 1955, 67 min., DCP)
April 19: The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956, 84 min., 35mm)
May 10: Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957, 88 min., DCP)
May 17: Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960, 197 min., 35mm)
May 24: Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962, 153 min., 35mm)
June 7: Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, 95 min., DCP)
June 14: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, 149 min., 35mm)
June 21: A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971, 136 min., 35mm)
June 28: Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975, 185 min., 35mm)
July 5: Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, US 2012, 102 min., DCP)
July 19: Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987, 116 min., 35mm)
July 26: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999, 159 min., 35mm)
August 9: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Speilberg, US/UK 2001, 146 min., DCP)
January 2, 2026: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, US/UK 1980, 146 min., 35mm)
Events in this Series
Eyes Wide Shut (35mm)
The Complete Kubrick | Summer Chills Stanley Kubrick’s final directorial effort was released twelve years after his previous film and four months after his death. Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 Traumnovelle (or Dream Story), Kubrick waited until he had a real-life couple that could commit to his demanding production schedule to make the film.
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
The Complete Kubrick One of Kubrick’s unrealized projects was A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, later brought to the screen by Steven Spielberg. Kubrick first approached Spielberg to direct the film, with Kubrick producing, in 1985.
Full Metal Jacket (35mm)
The Complete Kubrick Adapted from a novel by Gustav Hasford, Stanley Kubrick’s stunning war movie takes us from a nightmarish Marine training session on Parris Island to the hell of Vietnam.
Barry Lyndon (35mm)
The Complete Kubrick | The Sight & Sound Club Ryan O’Neal stars as the titular ambitious Irish adventurer who rises from military deserter and gambler to a life of lavish excess via his eventual marriage to the wealthy Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson).
A Clockwork Orange (35mm)
The Complete Kubrick Half a century after its release, Kubrick’s most successful film at the box office is still his most controversial. Set in an ultra-violent future where the only thing more frightening than the roving youth gangs is the therapy used to “cure” them, this startling adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel has lost none of its power to outrage and disturb.
2001: A Space Odyssey (35mm)
The Complete Kubrick | The Sight & Sound Club The George Eastman Museum is proud to show a brand-new 35mm print (roadshow version) of Kubrick’s visionary sci-fi masterwork, complete with the music meant to be heard before the film’s beginning and during the intermission.