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Stanley Kubrick Retrospective at LACMA
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February 11, 2013
Calling all film and design buffs! The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is currently showing the first U.S. retrospective of master director Stanley Kubrick's prolific 45-year life and career in film. We suggest visiting the exhibition for yourself, up close and personal, but if you're somehow unable to make the trip before June 3, 2013, click on through for our tour.
The entrance to the exhibition, housed inside the Art of the Americas Building at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Upon walking into the exhibition, two films are projected side by side (seen here, Kubrick's 1980 horror classic, The Shining) in a big, dark room. Visitors can either sit and marvel or merely pass on by.
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The director's career in film, in the form of posters, line the wall.
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A variety of different camera lenses used by the late director.
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Scribbles and edits on The Killing (1956) manuscript.
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A zoomed-in color slide from Lolita (1962), made possible by a sliding viewer.
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The infamous Grady Twins from The Shining (1980) look unfazed, as a small group of visitors focus on an exhibition reading.
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The original dresses and shoes of the Grady sisters.
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The Adler typewriter Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson) used to type with.
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Jack's famous repeated sentences actually first originated from 17th-century writer James Howell's Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish (1659).
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The original Spacesuit from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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A reproduction model of the Discovery spaceship from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) floats above some of the film's memorabilia.
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The original Moonwatcher costume from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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A trio of Djinn Chairs by French designer Olivier Mourgue from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), lay atop light boxes.
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In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), crew members ate with cutlery designed by Arne Jacobsen for Georg Jensen.
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A line-up of Sasco cards (filing cards assembled into a chart) for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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An animation by Andy Featherston plays inside David Bowman (played by Keir Dullea)'s original helmet from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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A peek inside a reproduction model by Workshop Jörg Kallmeyer, Frankfurt am Main of the War Room featured in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
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Left and center: Original uniforms of French regimental soldiers and Right: Original costume of Barry Lyndon for Kubrick's period film, Barry Lyndon (1975).
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Film slate from Barry Lyndon (1974)
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Outside view of the A Clockwork Orange (1971) section of the exhibition.
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A reproduction mannequin of the Korova Milk Bar maid from A Clockwork Orange (1971).
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Production design sketches by John Barry for A Clockwork Orange (1971).
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A copy of MAD Magazine's "A Crockwork Lemon," June 1973.
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Memorabilia from Full Metal Jacket (1987), such as Gustav Hasford's The Short Timers, Kubrick's script notes, and Private Joker's original props.
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The research library containing 217 books for Napoleon, sadly one of several of the director's unrealized projects.
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Kubrick's wooden director's chair.
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