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To call Kubrick’s movie Fear And Desire lost is perhaps a little bit of an exaggeration, as the main reason it’s been so hard to get hold of has been Kubrick himself trying to erase it from history. But now it’s been restored and is ready for the Blu-ray collections of his hardcore fans.
The restored copy comes via a recently discovered negative of the film, which was found in a Puerto Rican film laboratory. Shot in 1953 for a budget of around £6,000, Fear And Desire follows the lives of four soldiers behind enemy lines, with plenty of psychological trauma along the way as you might expect from one of Stan’s films.
Kubrick himself, being a bit of a perfectionist, wasn’t particularly proud of his first super-budget movie, calling it “a bumbling amateur film exercise,” and was believed to have been buying up copies of it to destroy and help erase it from existence, making it something of a challenge for people to find and watch in the pre-internet days.
However, given its obscurity, no one renewed the copyright, so Fear And Desire is freely available to watch on YouTube right now if you can’t wait until the DVD and Blu-ray release that’s scheduled for next January. [Empire]
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No matter how much Stan hated it, i’m sure it’ll be well worth a watch, the guy was a Genius, the only film of his i’ve seen that was poor was AI and i’m blaming Schpeilburgen for that, cant be Stans fault because he corked it before it was finished!
If this thing helped him make Full Metal Jacket in any way at all, it was definitely worth it.
Indeed, i shall be YouTubing it at the earliest possible moment, everyone has to start somewhere and i’ve a feeling that even though Stanley didn’t like it, it’ll probably still stand up as a good film when viewed against the likes of Scott Spiegel or Víctor García for example. No offence to those guys intended, it’s just that Kubrik was so great, even his bad is bound to still be good!
Might i also Just add that i’m still reeling from your call to ban all cat photos from the internets, a Spatchmo doesn’t have many pleasures in life, but fluffy photos of Kitteh doing human like things or in stupid poses is one of his only joys, and you should always be wary of someone who refers to themselves in the third person as spatchmo is known to do when feeling threatened!
I just don’t like cats. They are so rude. The parasites they infect the food chain with have clearly infected and warped your brain.
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/why-cat-bites-are-pretty-much-the-worst-thing-ever/
Shut up Token, your not helping my cause here, if we’re not careful Gary’s gonna ban cats from the interwebs!!!
While i have managed to avoid the Toxoplasmosis that offed poor old Kevin McKidd in Trainspotting, you are correct, i do seem to have succumbed to the love of cats! i especially like it when they’re being Dicks though, so it’s not all bad though eh?
Regarding AI he technically corked it before it was started, still in many years of pre-production.
But this movie is suppose to really stink, people aren’t born great filmmakers.
I’ve watched all Kubrick’s stuff as a fan, but I will respect Kubrick’s wishes and not watch this stinker.