The Birthday Stare: Celebrating Kubrick
This cinematic celebration of a movie master is screening 'The Shining', 'Eyes Wide Shut', '2001: A Space Odyssey' and more.
Overview
Open the cinema doors, HAL, because one of Sydney's cinemas is serving up a special film feast. July is Stanley Kubrick's birthday month, so there's no better time to start a season of six of the director's standout features. No, you won't have to navigate a hedge maze or don a hooded robe while you're there.
Golden Age Cinema and Bar in Surry Hills turning its attention to celebrating the movie master on select dates between Monday, July 21–Thursday, August 7, 2025. At The Birthday Stare: Celebrating Kubrick, the picture palace is heading to space, plunging into war, and discovering that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy — and more.
Sure, 2001: A Space Odyssey pops up in retro programs around the city quite often, but there's never a bad time to see this classic the way that it was meant to be seen — and it's kicking off the lineup. Next comes Stephen King adaptation The Shining for a trip to room 237, then the grand 18th century-set Barry Lyndon on Saturday, July 26, the filmmaker's big day.
No one does dark satire like this director, as Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb demonstrates. Also, no one dives into the Vietnam War's nightmares as Kubrick did with Full Metal Jacket, either. His final completed effort, aka the Nicole Kidman (Nine Perfect Strangers)- and Tom Cruise- (Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning) starring erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut, rounds out the series.
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