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’50s Kubrick
Featuring an introduction to Paths of Glory by writer David Simon The first decade of Stanley Kubrick’s filmmaking career marked his swift ascent to international acclaim and laid the foundation for one of the most visionary and uncompromising creative runs in cinema history. Hypnotized by the possibilities of moviemaking as practiced by auteurs like Sergei Eisenstein and Max Ophuls, the young Kubrick honed his striking visual sensibility through his work as a street photographer, developing a dynamic, Weegee-like eye that he deployed in two independently produced features: the impressive antiwar allegory Fear and Desire , made when he was just twenty-five, and the punchy pulp noir Killer’s Kiss . He arrived in Hollywood as perhaps the greatest boy genius since Orson Welles,…
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