Yale Film Archive: Kubrick’s Maze Film Series
1960 | Directed by Stanley Kubrick | 35mm | 161 mins
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. Introduction by Benedek Kruchió. 35mm IB Tech print from the Harvard Film Archive.
Yale Film Archive’s Kubrick’s Maze(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) is a complete retrospective of the peerless, provocative cinema of Stanley Kubrick, screened entirely from film prints.