Spartacus
The peplum genre and Easter are rooted in antiquity, and sometimes conjure up a shared imagination. As the slave Spartacus' revolt took place almost a century before the birth of Christ, the coincidence stops there for this Easter screening, but there's never a bad excuse to see or revisit Stanley Kubrick's unforgettable fresco, the jewel in the crown of a genre that's sometimes overlooked.
Winner of 4 Academy Awards in 1961
In 69 BC, Spartacus, a slave from Thrace, leads a revolt...
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, photographer, screenwriter and producer. After starting out as a photographer, Kubrick, a self-taught filmmaker, also became his own cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and editor. His thirteen feature films in a forty-six-year career established him as one of the major filmmakers of the 20th century. Four of his films are ranked in the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Dr. Strangelove (1964), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Spartacus (1960).
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