![]() ![]() That’s not to say he was always playing for laughs, more that he was seemingly pointedly attuned to the absurdities and grotesqueries of human behaviour, as apparent in his quartet of war films as in his adaptations of those like-minded bedfellows Thackeray, Nabokov and Burgess. Kubrick was one of cinema’s sharpest of satirists. Yet the film also served to employ a default register that he would return to time and again, one that would colour his choices of adaptation and lead to accusations of coldness and distance even from his most evangelical of disciples. ![]() For his feature debut, Fear and Desire (1953) the director established an anonymous conflict occurring ‘outside history,’ one which occupied ‘no other country but the mind.’ Little seen until recently, it’s a film of rough-hewn edges and overt conspicuousness, displaying little of the formal chutzpah than would quickly come to define his work. Stanley Kubrick had been to war before, and he would of course, go again. (Stanley Kubrick – Cahiers du Cinema, 1957) ![]()
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