Metro Cinema Society: Four Decades of Kubrick

Four Decades of Kubrick

Join us as we celebrate films from four different decades by master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. 1956's The Killing (presented by Cult Cinema), 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1971's A Clockwork Orange and 1980's The Shining (presented by DEDfest). Kubrick was as talented as he was private, fiercely guarding both his film shoots and his family life after turning his back on Hollywood and taking his film making career to the UK in 1962. Certainly not a prolific filmmaker - having made only 16 films over the course of a 48 year career - Kubrick's films garnered 13 Oscar nominations (including 5 for Screenplay, 4 for Director & 3 for Best Picture) but only won once - for Best Special Effects for 2001.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Director: Stanley Kubrick

USA 1968, 141 min, Digital

Jan 7 @ 7pm
Jan 8 @ 4pm

In what is still the ultimate trip, Kubrick trades the traditional three acts for epochs to tell the story of the continuing evolution of intelligent life on earth over millions of years. Starting with the "dawn of man" as a... view more

DEDfest: The Shining

Director: Stanley Kubrick

USA 1980, 142 min, Digital

Jan 13 @ 11pm
Jan 18 @ 9pm

January can be the coldest and bleakest month of the year for most of us and so what better time for DEDfest to screen _The Shining_! Witness Kubrick’s epic film as he melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots... view more

A Clockwork Orange

Director: Stanley Kubrick

UK 1971, 136 min, Digital

Jan 20 @ 11:30pm
Jan 22 @ 9:15pm

Viddy well, my droogs - trying to make up your rassoodocks what to do with your evenings? Arguably Kubrick's most famous film and certainly his most controversial, it was banned in Britain for 26 years. Kubrick himself pulled the film... view more

Cult Cinema: The Killing

Director: Stanley Kubrick

USA 1956, 85 min, 35mm

Jan 24 @ 9pm
Jan 29 @ 4pm

At 27, Stanley Kubrick received studio backing for the first time to make his third feature, a heist film told in an inventively non-linear style. Sterling Hayden plays Johnny Clay, an ex-con who puts together a crew of misfits to... view more