Dir. Stanley Kubrick, English, 1957
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Thu 28 May 2009 // 19:30
/ Cinema
"For all its chilly symmetry and beauty, the sheer injustice shown will have your pulse racing" - CHANNEL FOUR FILM
"The searing Paths Of Glory continues to impress with its striking blend of formal brilliance, economical storytelling and emotional directness" - BBC REVIEW
Conventional wisdom says this film is a masterpiece.
For once you can trust conventional wisdom: Kubrick just has that special something without resorting to the lowest common denominator.
Don't be turned of by it's WWI setting, it's an amazing piece of antiwar propaganda without any of the cliches you might expect.
Kubrick is a cinema genius, and this is hardly debatable. Why is he a genius and were his first films as good as his later ones?
These are some of the questions that we are trying to explore with this season, in which we are showing 3 of his early films, and one of his absolute masterpieces - TOTALLY UNMISSSABLE - Dr Strangelove.
Here is the listing:
Sunday 17th May 7.30pm: Killers Kiss (1955)
Tue 26th May 7.30pm: The Killing (1956)
Thurs 28th May 7.30pm: Paths of Glory (1957)
And last but not least, the absolute masterpiece...