Du rififi chez les hommes (Jules Dassin, 1955)
Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959)
Crazed Fruit (Kō Nakahira, 1956)
King Creole (Michael Curtiz, 1958)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
Et Dieu…créa la femme (Roger Vadim, 1956)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
Fear and Desire (Stanley Kubrick, 1953)
Playing out much like an extended, sub-par Twilight Zone episode, Fear and Desire is distinctly economic in appearance, complete with inner monologue voice-over, a vague, non-descript allegorical bubble war as a setting and a twist involving doppelgangers as a conclusion. Not entirely disappointing and offering a few interesting instances of (mostly interior) framing, Kubrick’s first film is still very much an early experiment; curious but far from something like Killer’s Kiss (1955) or The Killing (1956), the two spontaneous yet assured noir tour-de-forces he would be making only 2 to 3 years later.
Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, 1955)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
