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From Photography to Film Noir: Stanley Kubrick’s Early Career

Stanley Kubrick, renowned director of such classic films as Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, actually began his career at just 17 years old as a magazine photographer, not a filmmaker. Drawing inspiration from the nightclubs, street scenes, and sporting events that made up his first assignments, young Kubrick trained his camera on his native city with a sophistication that belied his age. Inspired by our exhibition Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs, examine two of the first films Kubrick ever made, Day of the Fight (1951, 16 min) and Killer’s Kiss (1955, 67 min), in this screening and talkback. New York magazine film critic Emily Yoshida and co-curators of the exhibition Donald Albrecht and Sean Corcoran will consider the connections between these formative films and Kubrick’s early start in photography, as well as the imaginative eye and visual flair that would come to define his later work.











When: Tue., May. 22, 2018 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave.
212-534-1672
Price: $12 & up | $10 for Museum Members
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Stanley Kubrick, renowned director of such classic films as Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, actually began his career at just 17 years old as a magazine photographer, not a filmmaker. Drawing inspiration from the nightclubs, street scenes, and sporting events that made up his first assignments, young Kubrick trained his camera on his native city with a sophistication that belied his age. Inspired by our exhibition Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs, examine two of the first films Kubrick ever made, Day of the Fight (1951, 16 min) and Killer’s Kiss (1955, 67 min), in this screening and talkback. New York magazine film critic Emily Yoshida and co-curators of the exhibition Donald Albrecht and Sean Corcoran will consider the connections between these formative films and Kubrick’s early start in photography, as well as the imaginative eye and visual flair that would come to define his later work.

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