Word: kubrick
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...Strangelove" is incontestably the best feel-good nuclear apocalypse comedy ever made. Director Stanley Kubrick's dark comedic touch and the superb cast have made this a beloved cult film. This week "Dr. Strangelove" returns, quirks and Commies intact, for a 30th anniversary run at the Brattle, on a screen almost as wide as the "Big Board" itself...
Welcome to the well-worn, WWI world of Stanley Kubrick's Paths to Glory...
...office before settling into a long, lucrative life on the video shelves. For an impressive array of filmmakers, from Brian De Palma to Rob Reiner, King has made an ideal collaborator: he provides the sprawling, imaginative raw material; they bring the cinematic compression and sometimes (as in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining) the resonance...
...film rendition presents a vivid visual elaboration of this classic tale. The camera's eye allows certain emotions, facial expressions and attitudes to be expressed in their full-fledged wry and sardonic wit and irony. In one concise scene, Kubrick quickly establishes Humbert's desirability to both of his women when the three of them see a horror movie and the mother and daughter each grip his hand in fright. Presaging what is to follow in one deft move, Humbert extricates his left hand from the older Mrs. Haze's clutch and places it on top of Lolita's hand...
...Humbert's actions by explaining his obsession with the lithe freshness of younger girls, or "nymphets" as he terms them. The film relies more on the force of visual image to create the psychological foundation as there is no narrator to guide the viewer through the story. For instance, Kubrick displays the perverted side of Humbert's otherwise charming nature by setting the first scene of the movie at the chronological end of the story, when Humbert commits a cold, calculated act of violence...