Kubrick's Maze
Kubrick’s Maze presents a complete retrospective of the peerless, provocative cinema of Stanley Kubrick, screened entirely from film prints. All screenings are free and open to the public.
Special thanks to Sidney Dritz, Haden Guest, Mark Johnson, and Amy Sloper (Harvard Film Archive); Peter Bagrov, Alyssa Hickey, and Beth Rennie (George Eastman Museum); Lynanne Schweighofer (Library of Congress); and Ned Price.
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
FEAR AND DESIRE (Stanley Kubrick, 1952, 35mm, 62 mins)
THE SEAFARERS (Stanley Kubrick, 1953, 16mm, 29 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16, 2026
Kubrick’s career-spanning anti-war stance was present in his very first feature, a tale of troops trapped behind enemy lines in an unnamed conflict. The rarely screened thriller is a “precocious demo from a 24-year-old with mighty aspirations, filled with hints of what he would become” (Tim Grierson). Shown with Kubrick’s first color film, a short commissioned by the Seafarers International Union. Prints preserved by the Library of Congress.
KILLER'S KISS (Stanley Kubrick, 1955, 35mm, 67 mins)
DAY OF THE FIGHT (Stanley Kubrick, 1951, 35mm, 16 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026
Round one: Day of the Fight, a short documentary on a boxer from the Bronx (Kubrick’s home borough), with a 35mm print preserved by the Library of Congress. Round two: Killer’s Kiss, a low-budget film noir about a washed-up welterweight, his taxi-dancing sweetheart, and her mobbed-up predatory boss, who fight it out across a gritty Manhattan, culminating in an unforgettable mannequin-warehouse showdown. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
THE KILLING (Stanley Kubrick, 1956, 35mm, 84 mins)
7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026
70th anniversary screening! New print! It was the perfect crime…until it all unravelled. Sterling Hayden heads a rogues’ gallery in a racetrack heist film famed for its non-linear narrative, its relentless momentum, and its hardboiled dialogue by Jim Thompson. “Characteristically Kubrick in both its mechanistic coldness and its vision of human endeavour undone by greed and deceit” (Geoff Andrew). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick, 1957, 35mm, 88 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, 2026
Arguably the greatest World War I film ever made, with one of cinema’s most memorable musical finales. A French colonel (Kirk Douglas) defends his men after a suicidal assault, only to face the full force of military hierarchy. A call against arms and a rebuke of the officer class, Paths of Glory boasts a “striking blend of formal brilliance, economical storytelling and emotional directness” (Tom Dawson). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick, 1962, 35mm, 153 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, 2026
A European professor (James Mason) rents a room from an American widow (Shelley Winters) and becomes infatuated with her adolescent daughter (Sue Lyon). Kubrick’s adaptation of Nabokov’s novel is an unsettling and darkly comic exploration of desire, power, and self-delusion, all to a cheeky Nelson Riddle score. A favorite film of David Lynch, Sofia Coppola, and Paul Thomas Anderson. 35mm print from the Harvard Film Archive.
SPARTACUS (Stanley Kubrick, 1960, 35mm, 161 mins)
2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026
It’s sword-and-sandal time with this four-time Oscar-winning epic. A legendary Thracian slave rises from the gladiator pits of Rome to lead an uprising against an empire. “This may be the most literate of all the spectacles set in antiquity” (Jonathan Rosenbaum), and the most quotable one as well! Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Tony Curtis star. 35mm IB Tech print from the Harvard Film Archive.
DR. STRANGELOVE OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, 35mm, 95 mins)
FLYING PADRE (Stanley Kubrick, 1951, 35mm, 9 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026
There’s fighting in the War Room when a mad brigadier general unleashes nuclear-armed B-52s on the USSR in this pitch-black Cold War satire. “Kubrick’s most radical film and greatest dramatic gamble” (Joshua Rothkopf) stars Peter Sellers (in three roles), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and a rip-roaring Slim Pickens. Dr. Strangelove is presented with Flying Padre, a short documentary about a pilot/priest. Dr. Strangelove from the Yale Film Archive, Flying Padre preserved by the Library of Congress.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick, 1971, 35mm, 136 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026
Malcolm McDowell stars in what TIME Magazine called "a merciless, demoniac satire in the future imperfect" and the London Evening Standard praised as "one of the most unsettling films in the whole of cinema." Adapted from the novel by Anthony Burgess, this luridly dystopian crime film examines the collision between youth violence and state control, offering a provocative reflection on freedom, conditioning, and moral choice. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, 1975, 35mm, 185 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, March 26, 2026
"Kubrick's magisterial Thackeray adaptation now stands as one of his greatest and most savagely ironic films” (John Ridley). It stars Ryan O'Neal as an 18th-century Irish rogue whose rise and fall are traced through duels, battlefields, marriage, and deception. The film’s vast landscapes and candlelit interiors evoke the stillness and precision of Old Masters, while its soundtrack sublimely blends Handel, folk tunes, and military marches. A must-see. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick, 1980, 35mm, 146 mins)
7 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 2026
A terrifying trip to the Overlook Hotel that you’ll remember forever…and ever…and ever…. With its haunting corridors and chilling soundscape, Kubrick’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel is an exercise in formal and psychological precision. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers star. "A masterpiece" (Ben Walters), "a brilliant success" (James Berardinelli), and "essential viewing" (Ashley Clark). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
FULL METAL JACKET (Stanley Kubrick, 1987, 35mm, 116 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, April 3, 2026
A Marine reporter—with “born to kill” scrawled on his helmet and a peace sign pinned to his flak jacket—witnesses the dehumanizing effects of the war machine, from the relentless rhythms of bootcamp indoctrination through the moral unravelling on the battlefields of Vietnam. “Visually poetic, darkly humorous, uncompromisingly brutal, and subversive in every way” (Radheyan Simonpillai). 35mm print from the George Eastman Museum.
EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, 1999, 35mm, 159 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, April 9, 2026
A wife (Nicole Kidman) confesses she’s sexually unfulfilled in her marriage, leading her husband (Tom Cruise) to spiral into secretive rituals of privilege and perversion. Updating Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle, Kubrick’s final film is “as rich and strange and riveting as any journey he's taken us on” (John Hartl). With notable supporting work from Sydney Pollack, Leelee Sobieski, Todd Field, and Alan Cumming. 35mm print from the Harvard Film Archive.
A.I: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg, 2001, 35mm, 146 mins)
7 p.m. Saturday, April 11, 2026
Spanning 2,000 years, this futuristic fairy tale follows a robot programmed to love (Haley Joel Osment) as he struggles to win his human mother's acceptance, and seeks the Blue Fairy in hopes of becoming a real boy. Stanley Kubrick spent more than two decades developing this project, with Spielberg—a longtime friend—shooting the film following Kubrick’s death. The result is an "enduring masterpiece” (Mark Kermode) reflecting both men’s sensibilities. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, 35mm, 149 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, April 17, 2026
"Perfectly, sensuously cinematic” (Martin Knelman), Kubrick’s experiment in space and time takes us from ancient prehistory to the distant future, expanding cinema’s scale and language with metaphysical wonder. The epic follows astronauts sent to Jupiter to investigate the origins of a strange lunar obelisk with links to our own evolution. You’ll never hear Strauss (or “Bicycle Built for Two”) the same way again. 35mm print (roadshow version) from the George Eastman Museum.
See the full Yale Film Archive screening schedule here.