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2/6/2006

Stanley Kubrick

Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria

An extensive retrospective of the films

From June 3 to July 9, 2006, Museum of the Moving Image will present an extensive retrospective of the films of director Stanley Kubrick, who was one of the most original and truly cinematic of all contemporary directors. From his ultra-low budget independently made film noir, Killer's Kiss, through his unique and groundbreaking classics, including Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick made brilliant, enigmatic films that exhibited a precise control over every element, from camerawork to music to performance.

The retrospective includes all twelve of the Bronx-born filmmaker's feature films from A Killer's Kiss through Eyes Wide Shut, and will also include screenings of an early short documentary, Day of the Fight; the film La Ronde, by Max Ophuls, who was Kubrick's favorite director; and A. I. Artificial Intelligence, a longtime project of Kubrick that was taken over by his friend Steven Spielberg after Kubrick's death in 1999. The retrospective includes personal appearances by actors Matthew Modine and Chris Chase, and biographer Vincent Lobrutto; and a lecture by Chief Curator David Schwartz, who organized the program.

"Stanley Kubrick's films are cinematic and cultural events. Made with a photographer's eye, they are filled with indelible, iconic images," said David Schwartz. "A bracingly comic, relentlessly probing social satirist, Kubrick had an outsider's disdain for all institutions--from the military to marriage--and a fascination with his protagonists' endless struggles to rise above their primal instincts."

Schedule

"A Kubrick Odyssey": Lecture by David Schwartz
Saturday, June 3, 1:30 p.m.
This hour-long lecture by Chief Curator David Schwartz, illustrated with film clips, offers a guided tour through Stanley Kubrick's themes and motifs, his fascination with violence and sexuality, and his films' distinctive blend of realism and stylization.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Saturday, June 3, 3:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 4, 3:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
1968, 139 mins. Restored 70mm print. With Keir Dullea. Marketed by MGM as "The Ultimate Trip," Kubrick's cosmic journey from the dawn of man to the space age is a milestone in film history. Its abstract imagery drew inspiration from the avant-garde cinema of Jordan Belson and John Whitney, and the film broke ground in special effects technology and narrative style.

Killer's Kiss
Saturday, June 10, 2:00 p.m. With Chris Chase in person
Sunday, June 11, 2:00 p.m.
1955, 67 mins., 35mm. With Frank Silvera, Irene Kane (a.k.a. Chris Chase). Long before the emergence of the independent film movement, Kubrick wrote, directed, photographed, and edited this low-budget New York noir about a boxer's relationship with a nightclub dancer. A discussion with Chris Chase follows the June 10 screening.

The Killing
Saturday, June 10, 4:00 p.m. Lecture by Vincent LoBrutto
Sunday, June 11, 4:00 p.m.
1956, 84 mins., 35mm. With Sterling Hayden, Elisha Cook Jr., Marie Windsor. Kubrick and pulp-fiction legend Jim Thompson co-wrote this darkly comic thriller about a racetrack heist gone awry. The film's existential overtones and its intricate jigsaw-puzzle structure inspired Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. On June 10, Kubrick biographer Vincent LoBrutto will discuss the Bronx-born filmmaker's early days. Preceded by The Day of the Fight (1951, 16 mins., video.) Kubrick made the transition from photojournalist to filmmaker with this short film about a day in the life of a boxer.

La Ronde
Saturday, June 10, 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 11, 6:30 p.m.
1950, 97 mins., 35mm. Directed by Max Ophuls. With Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret. Kubrick's favorite director, Max Ophuls, directed this roundelay about a group of interlocking affairs in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The film was based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler, whose "Dream Story" was the literary source for Eyes Wide Shut.

Paths of Glory
Saturday, June 17, 2:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 18, 4:00 p.m.
1957, 86 mins. Restored 35mm print. With Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou. In this brutally unsentimental World War I drama, Kubrick's first major prestige production, long tracking shots through the trenches are juxtaposed with chess-style maneuvering among generals in lavish mansions.

Full Metal Jacket
With Matthew Modine in person
Saturday, June 17, 4:00 p.m.
1987, 116 mins., 35mm. With Matthew Modine. Wearing a peace symbol and a helmet marked "Born to Kill," Joker (Modine) is a military journalist trying to maintain his cynicism and sanity during basic training and combat in this harrowing Vietnam drama. A discussion with Modine, author of Full Metal Jacket Diary, follows the film.

Spartacus
Saturday, June 17, 7:30 p.m.
1960, 184 mins., 35mm. With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis. Kubrick replaced Anthony Mann at the beginning of production on this spectacular epic about a Roman slave revolt, based on Howard Fast's thinly veiled McCarthy-era allegory, and scripted by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Sunday, June 18, 6:30 p.m.
2001, 145 mins., 35mm. Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Haley Joel Osment. Kubrick spent years developing this science-fiction fable about a robot "boy" programmed to feel love. Spielberg took the project over after his friend Kubrick's death, creating a sentimental and philosophical film that combines the directors' sensibilities.

Lolita

Saturday, June 24, 2:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 25, 2:00 p.m.
1962, 152 mins., 35mm. With James Mason, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters. Outwitting the censors, Kubrick turned Vladimir Nabokov's classic study of a professor's obsession with a young "nymphet" into a dark social comedy pitting Peter Sellers' eccentric Claire Quilty against James Mason's romantic Humbert Humbert.

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Saturday, June 24, 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 25, 5:00 p.m.
1963, 93 mins., 35mm. With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott. The funniest movie ever made about nuclear annihilation and cold-war hysteria features a tour-de-force triple performance by Sellers as Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, and the deranged scientist Dr. Strangelove.

A Clockwork Orange

Saturday, July 1, 1:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 2, 1:30 p.m.
1971, 137 mins., 35mm. With Malcolm McDowell. Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange is a savagely nihilistic view of a future where, ironically, criminals are reformed by the forced viewing of violent movies.

Barry Lyndon
Saturday, July 1, 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 2, 4:00 p.m.
1975, 183 mins., 35mm. With Ryan O'Neal. In Kubrick's astonishingly detailed adaptation of William Thackeray's 19th-century comedy of manners, O'Neal brings surprising emotional depth to his portrayal of a shallow opportunist who rises through the ranks of high society.

The Shining

Saturday, July 8, 1:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 9, 1:30 p.m.
1980, 142 mins., 35mm. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall. A cavernous, empty resort hotel is the backdrop for the breakdown of a nuclear family in Kubrick's terrifying adaptation of Stephen King's horror thriller.

Eyes Wide Shut
Saturday, July 8, 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 9, 4:30 p.m.
1999, 159 mins., 35mm. With Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman. For his final film, Kubrick transplanted Arthur Schnitzler's novella about a married couple's dream life to modern-day New York. Billed as an "erotic thriller," Kubrick's multilayered masterpiece is a devastating portrait of the deceptions and illusions of love and romance.

Museum of the Moving Image receives support from numerous corporations, foundations, and individuals, and vital funding from the City of New York through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Additional government support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Natural Heritage Trust (administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation).

Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 36 Street - Astoria, New York
Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)
Film Screenings: Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays at 6:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays afternoons (See above for schedule).
Museum Admission: $10.00 for adults; $7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $5.00 for children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free. Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Paid admission includes film screenings (except for special ticketed events)
Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N or W trains to 36 Avenue.

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