Film and Reflexivity (fwd)

[Ted Samsel]

CS sez: 
> 
> Kubrick??!!
> 
> Gah!  Well, his stuff might have looked cool way back when, but
> most of it seems to me to have just surface appeal.  _2001_ I
> find boring and simplistic (to put it cordially), _Lolita_ is a
> disaster, _Strangelove_ is ruined by peter Sellers, who can never
> avoid totally overacting.  The only satisfying Kubrick for me is
> _Full Metal Jacket_, and even that raises more questions than it
> explores.  i agree with you that its strength is its
> investigation of the decay of language.

Hopefully you have also seen PATHS OF GLORY....I saw it when it
first came out, back when I was a John Wayne adoring pimply
faced proto-teen. It changed my outlook on war movies.
Considerably. But then, in 1957, I still thought WWII was still
happening.

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net  *1996* Year of the Accordion~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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