Film Screening:

Paths of Glory

(Stanley Kubrick, 1957, USA, 88 min, English, B/W, Blu-Ray)

--Introduced by Prof. Michael Morton, German Dept.

Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty. A failure when first released (it was banned outright in France for several years), Paths of Glory has since taken its place in the pantheon of classic war movies, its message growing only more pertinent and potent with each passing year (it was especially popular during the Vietnam era).

"You can sense Kubrick stretching his cinematic wings in this prime slice of Hollywood liberalism." -- Guardian

"The sardonic rhetoric may be laid on a little heavily at times, but the movie is blunt and scornfully brilliant." -- New Yorker

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI) with support from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.