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Full Metal Jacket
Kubrick’s look at the Vietnam war, and definitely not a comedy. We saw this on the first Saturday it was out in the UK at the old Warner’s cinema in Leicester Square. In the audience was a whole gang of … Continue reading
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The Killing
While reminding myself of these Kubrick films, I re-watched The Killing with a friend. “Oh, it’s so hard to follow”, she said, “it keeps jumping back and forward in time.” Well, it does do a little of that, to make … Continue reading
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
It’s another war film, a Cold War comedy about a possibly mad and definitely sex obsessed USA Brigadier General who manages to launch an attack on the USSR. There’s a typical narration, a Kubrick favourite bathroom scene or two and … Continue reading
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