I first saw The Killing when I was in high school. I had a great video store and one of the employees–lots of the employees were film school students–recommended the film to me, raving about Kubrick’s use of fractured narrative. He didn’t call it a fractured narrative, I don’t remember what he called it, maybe […]
Entries Tagged as 'Stanley Kubrick'
The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)
March 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: James Edwards· Jim Thompson· Lionel White· Stanley Kubrick· Sterling Hayden· United Artists· ★★★★
Killer’s Kiss (1955, Stanley Kubrick)
March 19th, 2009 · No Comments
The chase scene in Killer’s Kiss, which occupies almost the entire third act, is a marvel. From the moment Jamie Smith jumps out the window and hits the pavement, the film leaps beyond the potential Kubrick has instilled it with until that point. Before, there’s a lot of great low budget filmmaking, there’s a lot […]
Tagged: Stanley Kubrick· United Artists· ★★½
Fear and Desire (1953, Stanley Kubrick)
January 19th, 2009 · No Comments
Fear and Desire’s a mess to be sure, but it’s hard to understand why Kubrick later strove to have it willfully forgotten. The film’s greatest faults–the script and the acting–pale when compared to Kubrick’s success as a director and editor. He described the film as amateurish and that adjective certainly does describe the script well […]
Tagged: Howard Sackler· Joseph Burstyn· Paul Mazursky· Stanley Kubrick· ★½
