Call to vote Oct 18, 2008
The veteran actor, best known for classic films such as Spartacus and Paths of Glory, has been blogging on his MySpace page, in an attempt to engage a new generation of voters. "I don't tell them who I'm voting for because that's unfair, but I encourage them to vote. This is a fantastic election, where you have a woman running for vice-president and a black man running for president.". (BBC News)
Female Agents Aug 2, 2008
The exceptions make up many of the greatest war movies - the fearless ones, such as Kubrick's Paths Of Glory, or Lewis Milestone's All Quiet On The Western Front - but most filmmakers still look for heroes and honour in war, which is odd, given what war is usually like. And yes, Australian war movies are just as guilty of this heroic myth-making. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Waiting, debating, and fighting in wartime Lebanon May 29, 2008
There are, for instance, some lovely trips through the tight bunker tunnels via tracking shots that recall Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory." And the sound of bombs falling remains an alarming aural motif for most of the movie's two-hour running time. But pulled between raising questions about war and meeting certain entertainment demands, the film feels generically flat. (Boston Globe)
Living • Uhles: Essential movies May 25, 2008
PATHS OF GLORY (1957): Stanley Kubrick took the first of many swipes at the military in this tale of a good officer facing off against uncaring and incompetent leaders. M*A*S*H (1970): Although set in the Korean War, this sharp satire is clearly an indictment of the then-current Vietnam conflict. (The Augusta Chronicle)
T20 is not cricket: Archer May 18, 2008
The film will be directed by Bruce Beresford, who directed the Oscar-winner Driving Miss Daisy and will be called Paths of Glory. Its about a guy who came 472 ft close to climbing the Everest, dressed in a three-piece suit and carrying an umbrella. (Times of India)
The Iraq movie we've been waiting for May 8, 2008
If "Battle for Haditha" is the closest thing to "Paths of Glory" or "Full Metal Jacket" that the Iraq war has yet produced, it's because it doesn't try to explain anything, because it captures the schizophrenic body language, glazed-over expressions and motherfucker-laden, hip-hop-era slang of the men who've been there doing the killing in your name and mine. To prove that war is inhuman, and that it drags every human life it touches down into filth, we don't need to hear Cpl. Ramirez deliver a... (Salon)
Critics' Picks May 3, 2008
But forget about that for the moment, because Nick Broomfield's "Battle for Haditha" -- a largely improvised fictional docudrama whose cast includes ex-Marines and Iraqi refugees -- is the closest thing this conflict has produced to a "Paths of Glory" or an "All Quiet on the Western Front." It's a full-tilt, pulse-pounding war movie that resists moralism or easy stereotypes, and depicts the November 2005 ," in which a group of enraged Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians, as a prodigiously... (Salon)
10 things you might not know about McCain Mar 9, 2008
Favorite movie: "Paths of Glory" (1957). 9: Family origins: Scotch-Irish. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Boost for live bands Feb 19, 2008
Uhuru, Ramblers, Noble Kings, Black Beats, The Tempos, Broadway, Stargazers, Sweet Beans, Hedzoleh Soundz and many others charted paths of glory for Ghanaian music. It would be great for us if initiatives like Bands Alive can help us relive those exciting times. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
No Man's Land Jan 6, 2008
As in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory, war is a futile act, one that serves only to highlight the banal madness of rank and duty. His real target is the UN, which he savages with an angry heart almost at odds with the rest of the film's low-key approach. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A clockwork Kubrick Oct 21, 2007
There had been predecessors, of course: Sterling Hayden's criminal mastermind in "The Killing"; Adolphe Menjou's martinet general in "Paths of Glory"; James Mason's Humbert Humbert in "Lolita," who embodies three versions of dictator: lover, father, teacher. Hayden's General Ripper is a sort of dictator in "Doctor Strangelove," although the funniest joke in the movie is what a milquetoast - an un-dictator - Peter Sellers's President Muffley is. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Ryan Adams fan learns he has her watch Sep 17, 2007
Editor - Walter Addiego got it right showing the Little Man jumping out of his chair applauding in his July 22 review of the classic film "Twelve O'Clock High." The film ranks with "Paths of Glory" and "Das Boot" as among the best war movies ever made. It's almost unheard of that every performance in a film is thoroughly believable, but all of the actors in "Twelve O'Clock High" accomplished this rarity, and Henry King's direction was flawless. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Read on... Aug 23, 2007
Helmer of sports drama Resurrecting the Champ8/22/07 7:00pm Emmy-nommed supporting actor for 'Two and a Half Men'8/21/07 7:00pm Emmy-nominated helmer for "Heroes: Genesis" on NBC8/20/07 11:00pm Co-stars as Charlie in Showtimes Californication. "8/19/07 3:33pm Creator and executive producer of the Emmy-nominated comedy series "Entourage. (Variety)
Why do the movies love chess? Aug 1, 2007
" Movie chess sets are often excessively elaborate Sometimes chess is in a movie because a star or director is a player. Humphrey Bogart was reputed to be at the top end of amateur players, and suggested a chess scene for Casablanca. And Stanley Kubrick was so taken with chess that it features in The Killing, Lolita and 2001 and alluded to the game in Paths of Glory. "The best scenes are where there is some tension between the protagonists. Humphrey Bogart has a special place in my affections... (BBC News -- UK)
Bridge on the River Kwai Jul 29, 2007
David Lean's epic takes its audience along familiar paths of glory and then lands a heavy uppercut of existential waste. William Holden is good as Shears, the determined commando leader charged with destroying a vital bridge built over the River Kwai by Allied POWs under the command of the starchy Colonel Nicholson. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Starz Entertainment's Weekly Hot Items List July 19 - 25 & July 26 - August 1 Jul 20, 2007
s=press_releases37) Paths of Glory - (Kirk Douglas) 8 p.m. (ET/PT) on RetroPlex Director Stanley Kubrick's searing World War I drama about a general, far from the front lines, who unblinkingly sends his troops on a doomed mission -- then decides to punish the men for their failure. Spartacus - (Kirk Douglas) 9:30 p.m. (ET/PT) on RetroPlex "I am Spartacus!" The stirring tale of a rebel gladiator who raises an army of slaves to challenge the mighty Roman empire. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Hollywood's Best Actors and Directors Featured in 'Kings Of Cool' and 'Indie Icons' on RetroPlex and IndiePlex Jun 2, 2007
9:50 p.m. - The Defiant Ones -- Saturday, June 16 - Warren Oates 8 p.m. - Two-Lane Blacktop 9:45 p.m. - Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia -- Saturday, June 23 - Glenn Ford 8 p.m. - Pocketful of Miracles 10:20 p.m. - The Man from Colorado -- Saturday, June 20 - Sean Connery 8 p.m. - Dr. No 10 p.m. - From Russia with Love -- Saturday, July 7 - Elvis Presley 8 p.m. - Roustabout 9:45 p.m. - Change of Habit -- Saturday, July 14 - Richard Widmark 8 p.m. - Two Rode Together 10 p.m. - Madigan --... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
McQuarrie writes 'Land' for 2929 May 22, 2007
McQuarrie, a WWI buff, took the story and has transformed it into an epic-sized undertaking he hopes will follow in the tradition of "All Quiet on the Western Front," "Gallipoli" and "Paths of Glory.". "The First World War has been effectively depicted, but I've never seen it adequately explained," McQuarrie told Daily Variety. (Variety)
Sinclair: Days of Glory Apr 24, 2007
"When I saw Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory, I never saw African soldiers, but at the time there were 500,000 soldiers from Africa in France. In all the movies about World War II, where are the 250,000 black and Arab soldiers? There were 500,000 Americans in France and 250,000 from Africa. Where are they?". . (Zmag.org)
O'McCarthy: Killing Our Troops Mar 7, 2007
As the great anti-war movies All Quiet on the Western Front, Paths of Glory, Johnny Got His Gun, Coming Home, and Born On The Fourth of July has proved time and time again: governments use poor and working people as their cannon fodder, discarding those that survive as they do their junk military weaponry, while the manufacturing engines of war, profit and outlive war. . (Zmag.org)
Denerstein: An Oscar diary: The show that wouldn't end Feb 26, 2007
Oddly, it includes Stanley Kubrick's great Paths of Glory, a movie about the French army during World War I.. 9:45 p.m. Jodie Foster introduces the always touching segment on those who passed away in the previous year, the only montage that belongs in the show. (Rocky Mountain News)
Kubrick's career odyssey (Gary Arnold) Feb 1, 2007
With back-to-back features -- the crime melodrama "The Killing" in 1956 and the polemical World War I saga "Paths of Glory" a year later -- he demonstrated a flair for pictorially incisive and resourceful filmmaking that surpassed all other newcomers on the horizon ... This weekend it lands at the genuinely professional start, with "The Killing" and "Paths of Glory." This authentic juxtaposition allows nostalgic patrons to recall, and imaginative ones to simulate, the impression of a first... (Washington Times, DC)
Letters from Iwo Jima Jan 26, 2007
Going as far back as Kubrick's 1957 film Paths of Glory, the most appealing war films to this critic were those that took a more ambiguous approach to documenting the "war effort." As inspiring as fictional and true-life tales of patriotism like Saving Private Ryan are, there's something infinitely more immediate and personal about a tale that questions rather than champions man's inhumanity to man. Much like Ryan's superior 1998 counterpart, The Thin Red Line, Letters fails to vilify the main... (IGN FilmForce)
Stanley Kubrick maintained his independence Jan 26, 2007
Set in 1916, Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) generates a hair-raising, heartrending claustrophobia. Adolphe Menjou and George Macready play lordly and ambitious French generals who catalyze an insane attack on a German stronghold called the Ant Hill. (SunSpot.net)
What's a classic? Jan 12, 2007
Fifty years ago this year, United Artists alone distributed three box office flops now widely lauded as classics: 12 Angry Men, Sweet Smell of Success and Paths of Glory. STORY. (USA Today -- Life)
OVERNIGHT VIEWING / Highlights of programming airing 1:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. Jan 7, 2007
19, Movie: "Paths of Glory" 287915. EWTN, Taking a Stand 1414278. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Slate's Movie Club: What's Wrong With War Movies Jan 3, 2007
Films that take place on the fringes of war, like Kubrick's incomparable court-martial drama Paths of Glory, or those that document what Wesley, in his of Melville's L'Arme des ombres (Army of Shadows), calls "a war with no battlefield," are another story entirely and number among my favorite films. What does it mean, this resistance to a genre that, I can objectively acknowledge, has produced so many powerful and moving and important films (among them Clint Eastwood's grave and supple Letters... (Slate)
