Fear and Desire details
| Formats: | TBC DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Stephen Coit, Virginia Leith |
| Director: | Stanley Kubrick |
| Genre: | Thriller - Psychological |
| Studio: | EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
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Fear and Desire |
TBC Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 8 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Not available for rental |
| Main languages: | English |
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Early work finally released
By Kulturmonster (59 reviews) from Ipswich , 22 Feb 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
This was the film that Kubrick withdrew from release because he deemed it not good enough. Now we can see it, we need to accept that it does have faults, but it gives us an insight into how Kubrick developed as a director. There is a great deal about this film that is very good indeed. Kubrick was a master of black and white as he demonstrated in his following three films, and this film has many scenes shot in very high contrast with deep blacks reminiscent of German expressionist films. The main fault of the film is the hammy acting and the excess of dialogue which features far too much verbal philosophising. Kubrick seems to have made the mistake of many young artists and tried to pack too much into his first big work and failed to rely on the images to convey the story - a mistake he would never make again.
It is also quite clear that this film has many similarities to Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now!', a journey upriver in wartime, ending with an execution and lots of 'Heart of Darkness' jungle scenes. If this film had been available when 'Apocalypse Now!' was first released, Copolla might have had some explaining to do. I always felt that 'Apocalypse Now!' was the Kubrick film that Kubrick did not make, and it now appears that he already had!- Was this review helpful to you?
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(3)foreboding and fatalistic early kubrick
By lukasz84 (75 reviews) , 16 Dec 2011this early kubrick is demanding cinema. the theme of war, explored here, was to return in kubrick's work and become one of his major themes.
fear and desire is haunting, dangerous and very unsettling.
the camera can get dangerously close to the characters' faces as if is going not to observe, but attack them. these close -ups are frequent, predatory, prolonged and unnerving.
combined with highly expressionistic lighting, they give the film a strong ambience of foreboding and fatalism. the visual intimacy and extremity is also maintained at the narrative level with its techniques of inspecting and revealing the characters' most inner thoughts. there is also the narrator's voice over, which opens and closes the film with perplexing philosophy. all these elements make for a powerful and highly complex account of fear and desire.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Early work finally released
By Kulturmonster (59 reviews) from Ipswich , 22 Feb 2011This was the film that Kubrick withdrew from release because he deemed it not good enough. Now we can see it, we need to accept that it does have faults, but it gives us an insight into how Kubrick developed as a director. There is a great deal about this film that is very good indeed. Kubrick was a master of black and white as he demonstrated in his following three films, and this film has many scenes shot in very high contrast with deep blacks reminiscent of German expressionist films. The main fault of the film is the hammy acting and the excess of dialogue which features far too much verbal philosophising. Kubrick seems to have made the mistake of many young artists and tried to pack too much into his first big work and failed to rely on the images to convey the story - a mistake he would never make again.
It is also quite clear that this film has many similarities to Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now!', a journey upriver in wartime, ending with an execution and lots of 'Heart of Darkness' jungle scenes. If this film had been available when 'Apocalypse Now!' was first released, Copolla might have had some explaining to do. I always felt that 'Apocalypse Now!' was the Kubrick film that Kubrick did not make, and it now appears that he already had!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Fear and Desire
By Ivorson (7 reviews) from Exeter , 21 May 2010THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide
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