If you’re a fan of Stanley Kubrick – or even if you’re a fan of design or filmmaking – then it’s definitely worth heading to London’s Design Museum to check out the exhibition.
I’m not going to lie to you, I haven’t seen all of Kubrick’s films and I don’t love them all – I think A Clockwork Orange is unpleasant and I struggled with 2001: A Space Odyssey – but I’ve always appreciated the production and costume design in his films, so I had to go and check out the exhibition.
I went on a weekend and it was very busy, particularly in the first room, but it gets a bit easier as you go around the sections dedicated to his movies. It does get busy in the A Clockwork Orange section because everyone wanted to get the photo above, but otherwise it was OK.
I love seeing how pieces are created, seeing pre-production drawings, costumes and shooting schedules. Getting a behind-the-scenes look at filmmaking is fascinating to me and this exhibition totally delivers on that.
My highlights were the control panel and set from 2001 and a piece of paper featuring alternative title suggestions for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. You can check out pictures of these below.
The exhibition runs until 17 September.
- Kubrick’s clapperboards
- Costumes from Spartacus
- Costumes from A Clockwork Orange
- Car from A Clockwork Orange
- Eyes Wide Shut posters
- Costumes from Eyes Wide Shut
- Typewriter from The Shining
- Costumes from The Shining
- Maze model from The Shining
- Set recreation from Dr. Strangelove
- Title suggestions for Dr. Strangelove
- Costumes from Barry Lyndon
- Ape costume from 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Ship model 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Costumes from 2001: A Space Odyssey
- HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Control panel from 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Set from 2001: A Space Odyssey
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