Experience the brilliance of two cinematic visionaries in our Director Series, a summer-long film series at Birmingham 8 spotlighting the masterworks of Stanley Kubrick and Paul Thomas Anderson.

From the unsettling precision of The Killing and A Clockwork Orange to the grandeur of Barry Lyndon and the emotional intensity of There Will Be Blood and The Master, this series brings their iconic films back to the big screen where they belong.

Join us every Thursday throughout the summer for this unforgettable tribute to two of film’s most daring and influential directors.

Films by Stalney Kubrick

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The Killing {1956}

NR 1 hr 24 mins
After just being released from a five year stint in prison, Johnny Clay has assembled a five man team, including two insiders, to carry out...
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Paths of Glory {1957}

PG13 1 hr 28 mins
The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his...
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Dr. Strangelove {1964}

PG 1 hr 35 mins
Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet...
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A Clockwork Orange {1971}

R 2 hrs 16 mins
Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an “ultraviolent” youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and...
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Barry Lyndon {1975}

PG 3 hrs 05 mins
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora...
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Full Metal Jacket {1987}

R 1 hr 56 mins
A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits...
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Eyes Wide Shut {1999}

R 2 hrs 39 mins
After his wife, Alice, tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of sexual adventure. After several less...

Films by Paul Thomas Anderson

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There Will Be Blood {2007}

R 2 hrs 38 mins
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
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Inherent Vice {2014}

R 2 hrs 28 mins
In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry “Doc” Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former...
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The Master {2012}

R 2 hrs 18 mins
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future – until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic...
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Phantom Thread {2017}

R 2 hrs 10 mins
Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock [Daniel Day-Lewis] and his sister Cyril [Lesley...
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Licorice Pizza {2021}

R 2 hrs 15 mins
“Licorice Pizza” is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando...
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