CATCH A CLASSIC
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Part 1
TCM, Beginning at 7 p.m.
Turner Classic Movies begins its two-night (Part 2 airs next Friday, July 29) salute to iconic films from legendary director Stanley Kubrick this evening. All told, the two nights will feature eight of the 13 features Kubrick directed over the course of his 40-plus-year career. Five of them air in tonight’s lineup, beginning with Killer’s Kiss (pictured) (1955), Kubrick’s second movie, a film noir that earned him the Best Director prize at Switzerland’s Locarno International Film
Festival. This is followed by four of Kubrick’s much more iconic films: Paths of Glory (1957), the World War I-set anti-war drama also co-written by the director and led by Kirk Douglas; Lolita, the 1962 psychological comedy/drama based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel and starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers and Sue Lyon; the Best Picture Oscar-nominated Dr. Strangelove (1964), the darkly satiric take on the Cold War threat of American/Soviet nuclear conflict, also produced and co-written by Best Director Oscar nominee Kubrick and led by an incredible cast featuring Peter Sellers (in three roles, including the title character), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens; and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), possibly the greatest science-fiction film ever made, an epic journey
across time and space with an Oscar-nominated screenplay that Best Director nominee Kubrick co-wrote with sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke (inspired by Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”) and for which he also designed and directed the groundbreaking, and Oscar-winning, special photographic effects.