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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 […]

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

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.

Kubrick Retrospective: Spartacus – Playing February 3 & 4

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

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

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 […]

Kubrick Retrospective: Barry Lyndon – Playing February 17 & 18

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.

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

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) […]

Kubrick Retrospective: The Shining – Playing March 10 & 11

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.

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

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.

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

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 […]

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