Starting today (March 23), 2011: A Kubrick Odyssey exhibition covering the complete works of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick gets under way at the Cinematheque (Musée du Cinéma) in Paris.
The film series will show all of Kubrick’s movies, beginning with his second full-length feature, 1955’s The Killer’s Kiss, a film noir boasting the tagline, “Her soft mouth was the road to sin-smeared violence!” Kubrick was 26 when he made the film on a $40,000 budget borrowed from his uncle.
The Cinémathèque will also screen three rarely-seen short films by Kubrick as well as a newly-restored version of A Clockwork Orange for the 40th anniversary of its release. Other well-known Kubrick films include Spartacus, Lolita, Dr Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut.
In 2004, the exhibition began its world tour with stops in Berlin, Melbourne, Zurich, and Rome, before arriving in Paris. It provides an intimate look at Kubrick and his working methods and includes research notes for Napoleon, the abandoned film project that has attracted cultish devotion among his fans.
Kubrick fans can also view photographs he took for Look magazine at the beginning of his career —dramatically-framed images that hint at his directorial career. Various film props are featured in the show, including the milk bar from A Clockwork Orange and the costumes from the period piece Barry Lyndon.
Warner Brothers, one of the exhibition’s sponsors, is simultaneously releasing a 19-DVD boxed set of all the director’s films.