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Stanley Kubrick Retrospective: 8 Weeks of Kubrick

For Spring Semester, the Athena Cinema is ushering in a retrospective of eight classic Stanley Kubrick Films. Don’t miss your chance to see these masterpieces on the big screen.

Jan 27 & 28 : Paths of Glory
Feb 3 & 4: Spartacus
Feb 10 & 11: Clockwork Orange
Feb 17 & 18: Barry Lyndon
Feb 24 & 25: 2001: A Space Odyssey
March 10 & 11: The Shining
March 17 & 18: Full Metal Jacket
March 24 & 25: Eyes Wide Shut

“This man, in spite of the widespread reputation he had for mastering his means of expression, was misunderstood and misinterpreted every time he made a film. I’ve often asked myself why. In fact, only once did he have unanimously positive reviews, and they were for …Paths of Glory. I’ve never understood how people who are so attached to film never realized that he was number one.”
Jack Nicholson

 

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Kubrick Retrospective: Paths of Glory – Playing January 27 & 28

Watch Trailer Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer(s): Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson (screenplay), Humphrey Cobb (novel(
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker & Adolphe Menjou

The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack.

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Running Time: 8888 MIN
PG Rated

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Kubrick Retrospective: Spartacus – Playing February 3 & 4

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Writer(s): Dalton Trumbo (screenplay) & Howard Fast (novel)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons

The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

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Running Time: 197 MINS197 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Kubrick Retrospective: A Clockwork Orange – Playing February 10 & 11

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Writer(s): Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Anthony Burgess (novel)
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee & Michael Bates

Kubrick makes of Anthony Burgess’ celebrated novel a savage and satiric morality play centering on Alex (McDowell), who fights, robs, rapes and kills like any concsienceless predator. Captured and imprisoned, he undergoes treatment to condition him “safe”, a “clockwork orange” healthy and whole on the outside – but crippled within by reflex mechanisms beyond his control.

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Running Time: 136 mins136 MIN
R Rated

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Kubrick Retrospective: Barry Lyndon – Playing February 17 & 18

Watch Trailer Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer(s): Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) & William Makepeace Thackeray (novel)
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee

A gentlemanly rogue travels the battlefields and parlors of 18th century Europe determined to make for himself the life of a nobleman through seduction, gambling and dueling in this methodical film showing the rhythm and life of the period.

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Running Time: 184 mins184 MIN
PG Rated

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Kubrick Retrospective: 2001: A Space Odyssey – Playing February 24 & 25

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Writer(s): Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay),
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for the infinite. To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millenia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever conceived) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Dullea) into uncharted realms of space, perhaps even into immortality. “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Let the awe and mystery of a journey unlike any other begin.

The February 25 viewing of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY will double as a Science on Screen event. Join us after the show for a discussion about our evolutionary past with paleo-artist John Gurche. Gurche’s work has appeared on the covers of National Geographic, Discover and Natural History Magazines and in the Smithsonian, the Field Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History, among others.

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Running Time: 160160 MIN
G Rated

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Kubrick Retrospective: The Shining – Playing March 10 & 11

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Writer(s): Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson (screenplay) & Stephen King (novel)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

A married couple with a small son are employed to look after a resort hotel high in the Colorado mountains. As a result, they are the sole occupants during the long winter. The hotel manager warns them not to accept the job because of a tragedy that occurred during the winter of 1970.

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Running Time: 144 mins144 MIN
R Rated

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Kubrick Retrospective: Full Metal Jacket – Playing March 17 & 18

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Writer(s): Gustav Hasford (novel), Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) & Michael Herr (screenplay)
Cast: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey & Vincent D'Onofrio

The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker – from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive.

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Running Time: 116 mins116 MIN
R Rated

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Kubrick Retrospective: Eyes Wide Shut – Playing March 24 & 25

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Writer(s): Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Frederic Raphael (screenplay), and Arthur Schnitzler (novella "Traumnovelle") (inspiration)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field

The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood’s most bankable celebrity couple. Cruise and Kidman play William and Alice Harford, a physician and a gallery manager who are wealthy, successful, and travel in a sophisticated social circle; however, a certain amount of decadence crosses their paths on occasion, and a visit to a formal-dress party leads them into sexual temptation when William is drafted into helping a beautiful girl who has overdosed on drugs while Alice is charmed by a man bent on seduction. While neither William and Alice act on their adulterous impulses, once the issue has been brought into the open, it begins a dangerous season of erotic gamesmanship for the couple, with William in particular openly confronting his desire for new sexual experiences.

“Kubrick, exactly in character, has left us as the unchallengeable champion of the enigma.” -Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

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Running Time: 159 minutes159 MIN

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