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focus on stanley kubrick

Stanley Kubrick and Tom Cruise on the set of Eyes Wide Shut. Photo: Manuel Harlan/Stanley Kubrick Estate

ACMI celebrates the films of the master director.

A comprehensive retrospective of Kubrick's works, presented to coincide with the acclaimed exhibition Stanley Kubrick: Inside the mind of a visionary filmmaker, featuring specially imported 35mm prints and rarely screened early documentaries.



Thursday 5 January - Sunday 29 January 2006

Full $13  Concession $10
Six session pass: Full $60  Concession $48

rare kubrick shorts Three rarely screened Stanley Kubrick documentaries.

killer's kiss Stanley Kubrick's noir thriller follows a boxer whose life is set adrift when he falls for a dancehall dame.

the killing A taut crime thriller that centres on an icy ex-con who schemes to rob a horse track.

paths of glory Kirk Douglas is magnificent in this agonizing representation of the futility of war, set amongst trenches during WWI.

spartacus Stanley Kubrick's epic abounds with the vibrant spectacle synonymous with his cinema.

lolita Stanley Kubrick's controversial reworking of Vladimir Nabokov's landmark novel.

dr. strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb Stanley Kubrick's comedy-thriller offers up some of the sharpest satire ever produced about cold war madness.

2001: a space odyssey Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece is the ultimate journey through inner and outer space, death and rebirth.

a clockwork orange Kubrick's anarchic cult classic starring Malcolm McDowell.

barry lyndon Kubrick's exquisite foray into period drama is indeed "the saddest of swashbucklers and the most melancholy of bodice-rippers."

the shining Jack Nicholson is at his most diabolically bent in Kubrick's chilling adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel.

full metal jacket Painstakingly crafted, Stanley Kubrick's second take on the war-movie is a grim and unrelenting vision of war.

eyes wide shut Kubrick's final foray into filmmaking weaves the surreal and dreamlike into an undeniably contemporary exploration of the human psyche.

artificial intelligence: ai Ultimately brought to the screen by Steven Spielberg, AI offers insight into the much-cherished project that had inspired Kubrick for over 15 years.

stanley kubrick: a life in pictures Long time collaborator Jan Harlan encapsulates the stunning life and career of Stanley Kubrick.

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