Kubrick Week on SBS

10 November 2008 | 15:32 - By World Movies

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 US space program (positioning of the rocket launcher, spacesuit design etc). The information causes the filmmaker to ponder how far a person would go to pursue a powerful image. The result is an intriguing and provocative documentary that encourages critical thinking.

 

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 Orange (1971)



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 UK for 26 years, at Kubrick’s insistence.

 

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





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28 Apr 2011 14:24 AEST

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Pourquoi les gens veulent acheter réplique montre je pense que le facteur le plus

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29 Jul 2009 20:34 AEST

Frank

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

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15 Jun 2009 20:51 AEST

Oscar

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.

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24 Nov 2008 13:18 AEST

Ron S

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

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24 Nov 2008 0:37 AEST

azza

From: Elanora

Loved IT!

Thanks heaps for the Kubrick week, I enjoyed them all, good times...... Being on late was good....gotta work nights....

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23 Nov 2008 19:45 AEST

otis

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

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21 Nov 2008 22:53 AEST

jason

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

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21 Nov 2008 17:52 AEST

Xavier

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

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21 Nov 2008 9:22 AEST

Jack

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.

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21 Nov 2008 9:20 AEST

Stan

From: Mount Keira

awesome

thank your SBS, i really enjoy.

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