Word: sparticus
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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Kubrick's next two works, though failures, were hopeful ones. Sparticus was, as Stanley Kauffmann said, a first-rate circus, giving the director a chance to have fun with blockbuster sets and length. Lolita lacked a painfully necessary erotic core, but it had, in Peter Sellers, a brilliant Quilty. It was with Dr. Strangelove that Kubrick again fulfilled his talent--what he accomplished, not only in story structure and images but with parodic dialogue and commentary as well, needs little more appreciation than it has already, justly, received...
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