MoMI launches complete retrospective of Stanley Kubrick, presented by Criterion

 

Seventeen films, including the U.S. theatrical premiere of the international-release version of The Shining, paired with the American version, and special guests including Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown, archivist and producer of Criterion's The Complete Kubrick box set Michael Chaiken, and more to be confirmed

 

November 11–December 27, 2026

 

Astoria, New York, October 19, 2026 (CORRECTED)— From November 1 through December 27, 2026, Museum of the Moving Image will present the screening series Kubrick, showing legendary director Stanley Kubrick’s full cinematic corpus on the big screen as it was intended to be experienced, with special guests and rare works. Presented by Criterion, the retrospective coincides with the release of Criterion’s The Complete Kubrick box set, an unprecedented collection that brings together Stanley Kubrick’s entire directorial output for the first time.

 

The 17-film retrospective features Kubrick’s early shorts; his 1950s noir-tinged dramas, Killer’s Kiss and The Killing; his ’60s masterpieces, including 2001: A Space Odyssey; and defining films of the ‘70s and ’80s, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket, and the U.S. theatrical premiere of the international version of The Shining, presented alongside the U.S. release version with special guests Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown and Michael Chaiken; and his final work, Eyes Wide Shut.

 

“Stanley Kubrick’s films are so magisterial, so monolithic, so meaningful to generations of moviegoers—and inseparable from a particular idea of cinema itself—that it’s also easy to overlook their idiosyncratic genius,” said Senior Curator of Film Michael Koresky. “These films are about nothing less than the violence and hypocrisy of humanity, yet the Bronx-born-and-raised filmmaker was essentially making satirical, deeply oddball works of personal expression on a large scale. The marriage of exacting technical brilliance and peculiar individuality produced a filmography we’re almost in danger of taking for granted—we likely will never see such eccentric and narratively experimental American studio movies of this scale or budget ever again.”

 

“Creating The Complete Kubrick required consulting with Kubrick's family, closest collaborators, and film archives across the globe, including MoMI, whose collections related to the early development of 2001: A Space Odyssey laid the groundwork for the new Criterion edition,” said The Complete Kubrick box set’s producer Michael Chaiken. “Garrett Brown's Steadicam demonstration reel Thirty Impossible Shots, seen by numerous directors in the early 1970s, changed how films were made. In Kubrick's case, Brown's invention shaped the look of The Shining and the films that followed, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut, allowing the director to get ever closer to the fluid camera movement of one of his acknowledged cinematic heroes, Max Ophuls.”

 

Criterion’s The Complete Kubrick will be available to purchase at MoMI during the retrospective. Collected for the first time, the box set includes thirteen features and three shorts restored in 4K, with Kubrick’s original soundtracks alongside the 5.1 mixes, restored and remastered; over 25 hours of interviews, documentaries, and behind-the-scenes materials; and deluxe packaging illustrated with rare photographs, artwork, and documents annotated by Kubrick himself, all housed in a singular box inspired by the director’s legendary archive.

 

Coinciding with the retrospective, the Museum is also presenting materials from its collection that relate to the development of 2001: A Space Odyssey. They include a screenplay and storyboards that capture a scene of astronaut Frank Poole's disastrous journey outside the Discovery spacecraft that changed dramatically during the film’s production, and an extraordinarily prescient letter to Kubrick from Con Pederson, a key consultant on the film, about scientific research into space and interplanetary travel and their application to 2001: A Space Odyssey. These materials are on view in the core exhibition Behind the Screen.

 

Special thanks to Cecily Baring-Gould, Garrett Brown, Michael Chaiken, Kim Hendrickson, Anne Kawalerski, Nicole Contursi, and Adam Rackoff.

 

 

SCHEDULE FOR ‘KUBRICK,’ NOVEMBER 1–DECEMBER 27, 2026

 

All screenings take place in the Sumner M. Redstone Theater and/or the Celeste and Armand Bartos Theater at Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY, 11106.

Advance tickets and more information available at movingimage.org/kubrick.

 

 

샤이닝 The Shining: International Version (U.S. Theatrical Premiere)

Preceded by a conversation with Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown and archivist Michael Chaiken

Sunday, November 1, 12:00 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1980. 114 mins. U.S. 4K DCP. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Loyd. When The Shining was first released in 1980, most critics were generally baffled or negative, unable to understand Stanley Kubrick’s visionary approach to the horror genre, which prioritized deliberate pacing, deferred catharsis, and haunting abstract imagery. Today, we see, of course, that Kubrick was laying the groundwork for future generations of aspiring art-horror filmmakers. But in the moment, Kubrick responded to the critiques by editing a shorter version with less slack for the European market, a tinkered cut that he called “The Two-Hour Version.” Shining obsessive and Pixar animator Lee Unkrich—writer of the Taschen book Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining—notes that Kubrick’s long-time assistant Leon Vitali claimed this was Kubrick’s preferred cut. Decide for yourself in this rare opportunity to see the International Version on the big screen—followed by a screening of the original U.S. cut.

 

샤이닝 The Shining

Sunday, November 1, 3:30 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1980. 144 mins. U.S. 4K DCP. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Loyd. Rivers of blood spew from an elevator. The ghosts of two girls beckon in a hallway. An axe blasts through a bathroom wall to get at the terrified woman inside. With remarkable performances by Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, iconic set design, and groundbreaking Steadicam photography, Kubrick’s masterpiece of transcendent horror adapts Stephen King’s novel about Jack Torrance, an alcoholic writer driven mad while working as the caretaker of the cavernous Colorado hotel the Overlook over the course of one isolated winter. Simply put, this is one of the most aesthetically influential films ever made.

 

시계태엽 오렌지 A Clockwork Orange

Friday, November 6, 6:30 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1971. 137 mins. 35mm. With Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Carlin. Stanley Kubrick’s savage adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel is among the most infamous and controversial mainstream movies ever made. McDowell is unforgettable as Alex, the amoral, nihilist, Beethoven-obsessed head of the Droogs, a gang of marauding teen rapists and murderers rampaging across a dystopic, diseased future London. After arrest, he is subject to a treatment in which his violent impulses are turned back on him, leading to provocative questions about government control and free will. A Clockwork Orange, which was rated X upon release, remains shocking, bleak, and grimly funny.

 

킬링 The Killing

Sunday, November 8, 12:00 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1956. 85 mins. 35mm. With Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr., Marie Windsor. Stanley Kubrick and pulp-fiction legend Jim Thompson co-wrote this darkly comic thriller about a racetrack heist gone awry. With its thick layers of irony and stopwatch-precise playing with time, Kubrick’s fragmented crime noir (whose existential overtones and intricate structure inspired Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs) is his true narrative breakthrough, laying the groundwork for a filmography of flawed, failed masculinity and fatalistic humor.

 

닥터 스트레인지러브 Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Saturday, November 14, 6:30 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1964. 95 mins. 35mm. With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn. Stanley Kubrick reinvents the nuclear suspense thriller, then in vogue, as an absurdist black comedy in this brilliant evocation of cold war paranoia. Dr. Strangelove, co-written by Kubrick and Terry Southern, strikes just the right manic, irreverent, sexually charged tone, creating a satirical masterpiece that is one of the seminal counterculture works of the 1960s. Towering over the cast—which also includes George C. Scott as the blustering General Buck Turgidson and Sterling Hayden as “precious bodily fluids”–obsessed General Jack D. Ripper—is Sellers, a triple threat as meek RAF Captain Mandrake, bungling U.S. President Merkin Muffley, and, of course, the mad scientist title character—inventor of the doomsday machine that may wipe out humanity as we know it.

 

롤리타 Lolita

Friday, November 20, 6:30 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1962. 152 mins. 35mm. With James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon. “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” the savvy, shocked poster tagline wondered. Only Stanley Kubrick would dare try. Outwitting the censors, Kubrick turned Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel about a professor’s obsession with a young "nymphet" into a rich cinematic satire, emphasizing Nabokov’s dark social comedy. A monstrously proper James Mason is unforgettable as Humbert Humbert, whose twisted heart leads him to destroy his own life and soul for the love of the teenage daughter (Sue Lyon) of his crass and lovelorn landlady (Shelley Winters). As the mysterious oddball playwright Clare Quilty, Sellers lends Kubrick’s tragic satire a coherent sense of eccentricity and outlandish humor.

 

영광의 길 Paths of Glory

Saturday, November 21, 3:30 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1957. 88 mins. 35mm. With Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson. One of the bleakest anti-war films ever made, Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant World War I drama about the abuse of military hierarchy drives home its message in every aspect of its construction, from its mechanized tracking shots through trenches to its disturbingly protracted climax. Paths of Glory represents the first full expression of Kubrick’s style, but it also is the last of his films to center around a wholly virtuous hero (Douglas) and the last to view the human individual as a bulwark of decency in an inhuman world. Preceded by Kubrick’s documentary short The Seafarers (1953, 30 mins.)

 

배리 린든 Barry Lyndon

Friday, November 27, 3:00 p.m.

Saturday, November 28, 5:30 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1975. 184 mins. 4K DCP. With Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Diane Koerner, Gay Hamilton, Leon Vitali. William Makepeace Thackeray’s picaresque classic novel becomes, in Kubrick’s hands, a historical epic that has the visual texture and scope of Hogarth and Gainsborough canvases. O’Neal is the opportunistic Irish cad who fakes his way into nobility, however briefly, while Berenson and Vitali expertly inhabit his wife and stepson—the latter who will prove to be his undoing. Both large-scale epic and intimate domestic drama, Barry Lyndon is a work of magisterial tragicomedy that was misunderstood upon its release but is now rightly considered one of the director’s great masterworks. Winner of four Academy Awards, including cinematography, art direction, costume design, and adapted score.

 

풀 메탈 자켓 Full Metal Jacket

Saturday, December 5, 6:00 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1987. 116 mins. 35mm. With Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard, Ed O’Ross. Wearing a peace symbol and a helmet marked “Born to Kill,” Joker (Modine) is a military journalist trying to maintain his cynicism and sanity during basic training and combat in Kubrick’s harrowing Vietnam drama. Unlike concurrent films about the U.S. involvement in the war in Southeast Asia, such as Platoon, Kubrick’s film is by design unemotional, taking as its main subject the dehumanization of the American war machine itself, personified in the first half by the abusive drill sergeant played by R. Lee Ermey and in the second by the mechanical, distanced nature of the violent battles themselves.

 

2001 스페이스 오디세이 2001: A Space Odyssey

Friday, December 11, 6:30 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1968, 149 mins. U.S/U.K. 4K DCP. With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood. As brilliantly engineered as the space program itself, Stanley Kubrick’s mysterious and profound sci-fi epic—“the ultimate trip”—is about nothing less than the beauty and the banality of civilization, blending cool satire, an elaborate vision of the future, and passages of avant-garde cinematic inventiveness. Set in a future that is already the past, 2001: A Space Odyssey envisions space travel as both hilariously routine and mind-bending, a journey to the infinite and beyond that forever changed the way we see the universe and cinema itself. Kubrick’s surreal masterwork still has the ability to conduct viewers to untold, unknowable realms of artistry and daring.

 

공포와 욕망 Fear and Desire + Kubrick Shorts

Sunday, December 13, 12:00 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1953. 62 mins. 35mm. With Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Harp, Steve Coit, Virginia Leith. Kubrick’s first feature was long unavailable to the public before its revival at the 1993 Telluride Film Festival and subsequent restoration in 2010. Begun when Kubrick was just 23, this allegory of war follows four soldiers who capture and torment an innocent peasant girl behind enemy lines. Made for $10,000 raised from friends and family with a script written by high school classmate and future Pulitzer Prize–winner Howard Sackler, this formally and practically inventive film is impressive enough to have earned the admiration of James Agee, even if Kubrick himself would later dismiss it as “amateur.” 

Preceded by Kubrick’s 1951 documentary shorts Day of the Fight (16 mins, 16mm) and Flying Padre (9 mins, 16mm), his first films, which show the influence of his years working as a New York photographer.

 

킬러즈 키스 Killer’s Kiss

Sunday, December 13, 2:00 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1955. 67 mins. U.S. 35mm. With Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane (aka Chris Chase), Ruth Sobotka. Years before the flowering of the American independent film movement, Kubrick wrote, directed, photographed, and edited this self-financed New York thriller about a down-on-his-luck boxer’s relationship with a nightclub dancer. Killer’s Kiss reveals the young filmmaker’s heavy debt to film noir: attentive to spatial atmospherics, Kubrick plumbs the depths of darkness in several seedy urban locales, including the long-gone, original Penn Station. The frequently spectacular results anticipate the ingenuity of his later work, as in a climactic sequence of fisticuffs nightmarishly staged in a room full of dismembered mannequins. 

 

아이즈 와이드 셧 Eyes Wide Shut

Friday, December 18, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, December 26, 6:00 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1999, 159 mins. U.S. 35mm. With Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Vinessa Shaw, Todd Field, Alan Cumming, Sky Dumont. Met with befuddlement upon release, the final film by Stanley Kubrick is now rightly recognized as one of the great works of modern cinema—as mysterious and perfectly unsettled as ever. Kubrick spent a record-breaking 400 days shooting this beguiling, New York–set erotic puzzle, for which he meticulously recreated Greenwich Village on a British soundstage. Then a Hollywood power couple, Cruise and Kidman star as wealthy Manhattan doctor Bill Harford and his gallerist wife Alice; after she confesses erotic fantasies involving another man, he embarks on a surreal psychological odyssey that sends him into the depths of the city’s shadowy sexual underworld at Christmastime. The film’s centerpiece is an elaborate masked orgy that has the uncanny feel of a dream.

 

스파르타쿠스 Spartacus

Sunday, December 27, 3:15 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1960, 184 mins. U.S. DCP. With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Tony Curtis. A genre-defining epic from director Stanley Kubrick, this is the legendary tale of an enslaved gladiator (Kirk Douglas) who transforms into the beloved leader of a triumphant Roman slave revolt. Filmed in glorious Technicolor, the action-packed spectacle won four Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Supporting Actor for Peter Ustinov. This was Kubrick's first feature in color and his first use of a widescreen format.

 https://movingimage.org/series/kubrick 

 

About Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)

MoMI celebrates the history, art, technology, and future of the moving image in all of its forms. Located in Astoria, New York, the Museum presents exhibitions; screenings; discussion programs featuring actors, directors, and creative leaders; and education programs. It houses the nation’s most comprehensive collection of moving image artifacts and screens over 500 films annually. Its exhibitions—including the core exhibition Behind the Screen and The Jim Henson Exhibition—are noted for their integration of material objects, interactive experiences, and audiovisual presentations. For more information about the MoMI, visit movingimage.org.

 

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*사진작가로서의 스탠리 큐브릭 'Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs' @뉴욕시박물관, 2018 

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