Fear and Desire (1953) | |
| Director(s) | Stanley Kubrick |
| Producer(s) | Stanley Kubrick |
| Top Genres | Drama, War |
| Top Topics | |
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Fear and Desire (1953) was a War - Drama Film directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by Stanley Kubrick.
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Fear and Desire (1953)
By John Grant on Mar 21, 2020 From NoirishUS / 61 minutes / bw / Kubrick Family, Joseph Burstyn Dir & Pr & Cine: Stanley Kubrick Scr: Howard Sackler Cast: Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Steve Coit, Virginia Leith, David Allen The first feature movie of Stanley Kubrick, the one that so embarrassed him in later life that... Read full article
Fear and Desire (1953, Stanley Kubrick)
on Jan 19, 2009 From The Stop ButtonFear and Desire‘s a mess to be sure, but it’s hard to understand why Kubrick later strove to have it willfully forgotten. The film’s greatest faults–the script and the acting–pale when compared to Kubrick’s success as a director and editor. He described the film a... Read full article
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Stanley Kubrick disowned the film soon after it's release and wanted to make sure it was never seen again by not re-releasing the print. What he didn't know was that Kodak when making the print had a policy of making an extra print for their archives. It is this one that survives and where the DVD-R and VHS bootleg prints come from.
The original camera negative was discovered in the late 1980s in the holdings of a now-defunct film storage facility in Puerto Rico, and was acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in 1993. (How the negative got to Puerto Rico in the first place remains a mystery.) The OCN is being kept at the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia.
Stanley Kubrick's father cashed in his life insurance policy to help finance the film.
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The original camera negative was discovered in the late 1980s in the holdings of a now-defunct film storage facility in Puerto Rico, and was acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in 1993. (How the negative got to Puerto Rico in the first place remains a mystery.) The OCN is being kept at the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia.
Stanley Kubrick's father cashed in his life insurance policy to help finance the film.
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