Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey starts 45th anniversary theatrical run Christmas Day

Tomorrow the IFC Center in New York City will start a 45th anniversary run of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, presenting a DCP projection from Christmas Day through Tuesday, January 7, 2014. Kubrick and author Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi masterwork does nothing less than trace the arc of civilization, from prehistoric prehumans to ….

Win a copy of the insightful documentary on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Room 237

On September 24th, IFC Midnight will release the wry and provocative documentary Room 237 on Blu-ray and double-disc DVD. The film centers on Stanley Kubrick’s landmark modern horror The Shining. On the same day that Room 237 comes to home video, Stephen King will publish Doctor Sleep, a sequel to The Shining. In the new ….

Win one of two copies of Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy

On September 1st, Chicago Review Press will release Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy by Saul Austerlitz. Another Fine Mess takes a thorough look at what the author calls “the bastard stepchild of American film… that [still] has one of the richest veins of American cinematic culture.” To celebrate the release of ….

Kubrick’s family seeks to have his Holocaust film The Aryan Papers finally made

Director Stanley Kubrick‘s family recently expressed a desire to see one of the director’s final in-development projects, The Aryan Papers, finally realized, according to the London paper The Times. The movie was to be based on a novel by Louis Begley (writer of About Schmidt) titled Wartime Lies, about a fleeing Polish Jew named Tania ….

Lucy Lawless, Andy Whitfield and more to promote Starz’ upcoming Sam Raimi-produced action series Spartacus: Blood and Sand at Comic-Con ’09

Stars Lucy Lawless, Andy Whitfield and Peter Mensah, along with Executive Producers Rob Tapert and Steven S. DeKnight, will be giving audiences a first-ever look at Starz upcoming original drama Spartacus: Blood and Sand, and will be unveiling the exclusive first edition of the series-inspired comic with special Comic Con cover. In the new series ….