Angelika Auteurs: Stanley Kubrick

Overview

Open the cinema doors, HAL, because one of Brisbane's cinemas is serving up a special film feast. You won't need someone to strap you to a chair and force your eyes open with a specula to get you to watch this fantastic movie lineup — and you won't have to don a robe while you're there, either.

Woolloongabba's Angelika Film Centre is turning its attention to celebrating a movie master, with the one and only Stanley Kubrick in the spotlight. On Wednesdays and Saturdays between Saturday, August 17–Wednesday, September 11, the picture palace is unleashing four of the British filmmaker's full-length features upon eager cinephiles during its Angelika Auteurs: Stanley Kubrick season.

Kubrick's final completed effort, aka the Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise-starring erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut, is on the list. So is plunging into the horrors of the Vietnam War with Full Metal Jacket.

And sure, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange pop up in retro programs around the country quite often, but there's never a bad time to see these classics the way that they were meant to be seen.