Make sure to take the Kubrick odyssey

One of my favorite directors is Stanley Kubrick . Big surprise there. Anyone who has a scintilla of movie sense feels the same. I mean, you can have varying opinions about Kubrick (I, for one, think he had far more of a visual sense than he always had control over his plot points), but you can’t deny that his best films — “Dr. Strengelove,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “A Clockwork Orange” and so on — were powerful and influential and definitely worthy of belonging on any list of the greatest films ever made.

So, I was happy to head to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (which goes under the bizarre acronym of LACMA) to see the special Kubrick exhibit . The filmmaker’s whole career was outlined, from his first barely-better-than-amateur efforts to his final flawed effort, 1999’s “Eyes Wide Shut.”

Movies clips, essays, testimonials, display of costumes and screenplay representations, all give evidence to the man’s genius (yeah, sure, a word that is thrown around all too often but in this case applies).

The exhibit has been up since Nov. 1 and will run through June 30. If you’ve planning a trip to L.A., you chould check it out. Movie fans especially won’t regret it.