Stanley Kubrick movies frustrate and fascinate in equal measure. His eccentricity and obsessive nature are legendary – much to his widow Christiane's dismay.

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Kubrick's meticulous nature may have drawn out the filmmaking process, affected his output, put a few actors offside, and broken up a celebrity marriage, but it also resulted in some of the most memorable screen moments of the century.
This week
SBS is bringing you six of his best...
2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968)
Sunday November 16, 9.35pm

In spite of its title, Kubrick’s study of evolution hasn’t dated one bit
and is still as engrossing as ever - not just for his (and co-writer Arthur C.
Clarke’s) vision of human evolution, but also for its creation of the one of
the great screen villains: the calm, cunning and calculating computer,
HAL.9000.
Dark Side of the Moon (1998)
Monday November 17, 10.55pm

Director
William Karel originally set out to make a film about Stanley Kubrick, one year
after his death. A conversation with Christiane Kubrick reveals unknown facts
about Kubrick’s involvement in assisting with theatrical elements of the
Lolita
(1962)
Tuesday
November 18, 11.40pm

Kubrick’s
adaptation of Nabakov’s Lolita (1962)
stands up as a timeless example of understatement and restraint. The stranglehold
of the censors may have aged the title character from a tween to a teen, and prevented
Kubrick from delving into the novel’s most confronting elements, but his deft
use of irony and double entendre leaves an indelible impression.
Barry
Lyndon (1975)
Wednesday
November 19, 10.35pm

Kubrick
could never be pinned down to a single genre and after the futuristic set
pieces of 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, he turned his
attention to the past, to an 18th Century costume drama. Barry Lyndon is remarkable for its
cinematography and staging, and Kubrick’s desire to shoot scenes by candle
light pioneered new camera lens technology.
The
Shining (1980)
Thursday November 20, 10.10pm

Again
defying genre, Kubrick tackled madness, isolation and really, really creepy little kids in his
adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining.
The unsettling stillness of an abandoned hotel is captured in long-held, smooth
camera movements that give an uneasy feeling, and portend of troubled times ahead
for the winter caretaker and his kin...they find out the true meaning of horror
when he’s unable to shake his writer’s block.
Friday November 21, 10.05pm
A
Clockwork

A Clockwork Orange is Kubrick’s most divisive film,
for its depiction of an Orwellian society in which criminal instincts are
reconditioned by state-administered “aversion therapy”. A darkly funny parody
of crime and punishment, it divided critics and audiences and was unavailable
in the
Full
Metal Jacket (1987)
Saturday November 22, 10pm

There’s an
air of familiarity to Full Metal Jacket
and Kubrick’s Vietnam film comes off second best in the inevitable comparisons
with Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse
Now. However, its strengths lie in the scenes revolving around the gruelling
Marine induction training course, and the archetypal drill sergeant’s efforts
to harness the adrenalin of rage and sex drive and turn the rookie recruits
into Uncle Samurais.
- Fiona
Williams
Comments (34)
28 Apr 2011 14:24 AEST
From: http:
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Pourquoi les gens veulent acheter réplique montre je pense que le facteur le plus
29 Jul 2009 20:34 AEST
From: Vinci
Dark Side of the Moon
Where can i watch Dark Side of the Moon again? It was played on monday night 10-11 Thanks, Frank
15 Jun 2009 20:51 AEST
From: Central
2009 week?
Is SBS going to screen Kubrick week in 2009 again>? I hope so, I hope it continues as a annual event like it has, right? It would be great to see a 2 or 3 hour documentary of the 18 hours of footage of behind the scenes of Full Metal Jacket that was mentioned in the hard-to-see recent 2008 Stanley Kubrick boxes documentary from BBC.
24 Nov 2008 13:18 AEST
From: Willetton WA
More !!!
What a great Kubrick Festival - now can we have a Francis F Coppolla festival (without his crappy films) a week of Martin Scorcese, and a week of Robert De Niro's best films - not his later comedy rubbish
24 Nov 2008 0:37 AEST
From: Elanora
Loved IT!
Thanks heaps for the Kubrick week, I enjoyed them all, good times...... Being on late was good....gotta work nights....
23 Nov 2008 19:45 AEST
From: molong
kubrick week success
well done, there is no way the other networks would attempt something like this. a Luis Bunuel week on SBS would open some eyes. you are going ok. keep it going
21 Nov 2008 22:53 AEST
From: Newcastle
!!!
I love Kubrick week and all his films. Too bad they're on so late, but considering the nature of his movies I spose SBS didn't have much of a choice
21 Nov 2008 17:52 AEST
From: Melbourne
Kubrick sans Dr. Strangelove = wtf!?!
How you can have a Kubrick week without the sublime performance of Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove is beyond me. The taxpayer funded idiot who decided not to show this masterpiece ought to be shot. Otherwise, excellent week. Thankyou SBS
21 Nov 2008 9:22 AEST
From: Millicent
Kubrick
Thank you SBS for playing a Kubrick week! I am hoping for a follow up. This is sort of like ABC2's Audrey Hepburn season.
21 Nov 2008 9:20 AEST
From: Mount Keira
awesome
thank your SBS, i really enjoy.
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