Tag: Paths of Glory
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Kirk Douglas Was Thankful Stanley Kubrick Stuck To His Guns With Paths Of Glory
Francois Truffaut famously said, “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film.” But if there’s a counter-argument, it’s Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 “Paths of Glory.” Contrary to its title, the film depicts battle as anything but glorious.Set in France during World War 1, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax. After infantrymen under Dax’s command…
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How This Stanley Kubrick War Movie Influenced HBO’s The Wire
“The Wire” is the defining 21-century portrait of top-down institutional failure in the United States. Over five seasons, creator David Simon and his brilliant team of writers used the whole of Baltimore, from the corruption of City Hall to the get-over-or-get-dead hustle of housing projects, as a microcosm that demonstrates in excruciating detail how the…
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‘Burning Secret’: Stanley Kubrick’s Once-Lost Screenplay Has Been Found 60 Years Later — and Could Be Made Into a Film
Nearly 20 years after his death, Stanley Kubrick continues to fascinate and confound. The endlessly influential filmmaker is almost as notable for the films he didn’t make as he is for those he did, and it now appears one of those lost projects may not actually be lost: “Burning Secret.”Kubrick co-wrote the adaptation of Stefan…
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Lost Stanley Kubrick screenplay, Burning Secret, is found 60 years on
His first world war classic, Paths of Glory, is one of cinema’s most powerful anti-war movies, widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, as was his Roman epic, Spartacus, both of which starred Kirk Douglas. Now a “lost” screenplay by director Stanley Kubrick has been discovered – and it is so close to completion that it could…
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‘The Outsider’: Stephen King Reaffirms His Hatred of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ in New Novel
Have you ever hated an adaptation of one of your novels so much that, 38 years later, you decided to casually throw shade at said adaptation in a new book? Stephen King has, as he introduces a character in “The Outsider” by noting that she’s watching Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” because, in her words,…