When I was 13 years old I worked in a video store (back in Eastern Europe) shelling out VHS tapes (pirated, naturally, you try buying legal movie rights during economic embargo) and watching movies I probably did not understand but definitely had plenty of opinions on.
That’s when Stanley Kubrick and I developed our May-December romance that revolved around mindfucks, emotional fucks, unsexy fucks and all the other fucks in between.
Some may argue I never fully recovered.
I will argue that I just never found a right replacement.
So, consider this a PSA:
July 26 (This Saturday!) marks the eightieth birthday of Stanley Kubrick. To observe the occasion, two well-known film scholars, Robert Kolker and James Naremore, will review the director’s contributions through a focused dialogue based on two of Kubrick’s landmark films (one REALLY REALLY REALLY AMAZING and a not so really amazing one-ed). A new restoration of Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is followed by his last and most enigmatic work, Eyes Wide Shut. Robert Kolker edited Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays (2006) and James Naremore is author of On Kubrick (2007).
Full details: here
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(aka “the smartest movie ever made”)
July 26 at 1:30PM
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium
Kubrick’s most perfectly realized work (Terry Southern’s script played a major role) is a brilliant satire on megalomania aimed at the American military machine. Dr. Strangelove has recently undergone a 4K digital restoration, giving new life to one of the great works of all time. This new print is screened for the first time in Washington, DC. (1963, 35 mm, 98 minutes)
Eyes Wide Shut
(aka “the unsexiest movie about sex ever made”)
July 26 at 3:45PM
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium
The posthumously released tour de force Eyes Wide Shut moves the setting of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1920s Viennese novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story) to 1990s New York. More optimistic about human relationships than other Kubrick films, Eyes Wide Shut unfolds as complacent bourgeois couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman embark on a journey of disclosure and self-discovery. “And so the career of a great filmmaker comes to a close,” wrote critic Todd McCarthy, “with a work that sees him striking out in new directions with confidence and boldness intact.” (1999, 35 mm, 159 minutes)
GOOOOOO!!!!!
Dude, Paths of Glory is on basic cable all the fucking time.
who cares about your life, lily. get netflix and get over it.
July 25, 2008 at 5:20 pmglad i’m living my life outside of basic cable and netflix
keep on gutting yourself, Chip
well-deserved
and movies are more fun on the big screen
jerk
wish they were showing ones i haven’t seen
like Barry Lyndon, Paths of Glory, The Seafarers, Fear and Desire, Day of the Fight, Flying Padre
what a great director
July 25, 2008 at 2:28 pm