Cineplex Celebrates Stanley Kubrick For The Month Of April
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Something that I have not seen before in a big theater chain such as Cineplex, they are celebrating the work of a single director for an entire month.
Stanley Kubrick is among one of the most respected directors by so many film fans, filmmakers & actors who had the opportunity to work with him.
My personal favorite film of his is Full Metal Jacket, which is also my favorite war movie, even though I am not a big fan of war movies ironically.
This series of films will be playing in April across Canada, and I will share where they are playing and the dates.
Check your theater for showtimes.
Theaters listed to be playing this series of films are:
Langley, Richmond, Vancouver
Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Sudbury, Guelph, Barrie,
Vaughn, Burlington, Oakville & Toronto.
Killer's Kiss will play on March 29 & April 13
Davey Gordon (Jamie Smith), a New York City boxer aging out of his profession, meets dancer Gloria Price (Irene Kane), and they begin a romance. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo (Frank Silvera), who has eyes for his employee. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
Release date: October 1, 1955 (USA)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematography: Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay: Howard Sackler
Fear & Desire will play on March 29 & April 13
After their aeroplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.
Release date: April 1, 1953 (USA)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematography: Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon will play on March 31 & April 21
Acclaimed adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, in which a likeable young Irishman changes into a conniving, manipulative rogue. The protagonist finds himself homeless after taking part in a fake duel is then captured by a Prussian highwayman, and meets up with a spy, but his fortunes change when he marries a wealthy titled woman to secure his future.
Release date: December 18, 1975 (Canada)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematography: John Alcott
Distributed by: Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
Adapted from: The Luck of Barry Lyndon
60th Anniversary--Dr. Strangelove: Or: How I Stopped Worrying & Love The Bomb
Playing April 1, 14 & 26
A film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and it played the situation for laughs. U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely insane and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He thinks that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people.
Release date: January 29, 1964 (Canada)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay: Peter Sellers, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Adapted from: Red Alert
The Killing will be playing on April 2 & 17
Career criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) recruits a sharpshooter (Timothy Carey), a crooked police officer (Ted de Corsia), a bartender (Joe Sawyer) and a betting teller named George (Elisha Cook Jr.), among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee, Fay (Coleen G… MORE
Release date: June 6, 1956 (Canada)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson
Cinematography: Lucien Ballard
Distributed by: United Artists
Adapted from: Clean Break
Paths Of Glory will play on April 3, 14 & 30th
During World War I, commanding officer General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his subordinate, General Mireau (George Macready), to attack a German trench position, offering a promotion as an incentive. Though the mission is foolhardy to the point of suicide, Mireau commands his own subordinate, C… MORE
Release date: December 20, 1957 (Los Angeles)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematography: Georg Krause
Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson, Calder Willingham
Distributed by: United Artists
Adapted from: Paths of Glory
A Clockwork Orange will play on April 5, 18 & 28
In an England of the future, Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his "Droogs" spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on "a little of the old ultraviolence," while jauntily warbling "Singin' in the Rain." After he's jailed for bludgeoning the Cat Lady to death, Alex submits to… MORE
Release date: December 19, 1971 (Canada)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Story by: Anthony Burgess
Distributed by: Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures
Adapted from: A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey will play on April 6, 21 & May 1
An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.
Release date: April 2, 1968 (DC) Director: Stanley Kubrick Budget: 10.5 million USD
Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth, John Alcott
Distributed by: Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Lolita will play on April 7 & 18
With a screenplay penned by the author himself, Stanley Kubrick brings Vladimir Nabokov's controversial tale of forbidden love to the screen. Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is a European professor who relocates to an American suburb, renting a room from lonely widow Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters). Humbert marries Charlotte, but only to nurture his obsession with her comely teenage daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon). After Charlotte's sudden death, Humbert has Lolita all to himself -- or does he?
Release date: September 11, 1961 (UK)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Story by: Vladimir Nabokov
Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Vladimir Nabokov, James B. Harris
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Adapted from: Lolita
The Shining will play on April 10, 19 & 25
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes a winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.
Release date: May 23, 1980 (USA)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sequel: Doctor Sleep
Distributed by: Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Lumiere Pictures and Television
Adapted from: The Shining
Full Metal Jacket will play on April 11, 22 & 30
Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis (Matthew Modine), quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant (R. Lee Ermey), and pudgy Private Lawrence (Vincent D'Onofrio), nicknamed "Gomer Pyle," as they endure the rigors of basic training. Though Pyle takes a frightening detour, Joker graduates to the Marine Corps and is sent to Vietnam as a journalist, covering -- and eventually participating in -- the bloody Battle of Hué.
Release date: June 26, 1987 (USA)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Distributed by: Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, The Cannon Group, Inc. Adapted from: The Short-Timers
25th Anniversary---Eyes Wide Shut will play on April 12, 20 & 27
After Dr. Bill Hartford's (Tom Cruise) wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Release date: July 16, 1999 (Canada)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Adapted from: Dream Story
Spartacus will play on April 23 & 28
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Release date: October 7, 1960 (USA)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Story by: Howard Fast
Screenplay: Peter Ustinov, Dalton Trumbo, Calder Willingham
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