Director: Stanley Kubrick Run Time: 117 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1987
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Language: English, Vietnamese
Kubrick in July at Gateway Film Center
Experience the ultimate Stanley Kubrick retrospective this July at the Film Center. With screenings of all 13 of his films, you can catch some Kubrick any day of the month.
About the film:
Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder in Full Metal Jacket (1987). Through the eyes of an 18-year-old recruit—from his first days in the seeming hell of Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create him as a Marine, to the hell of the 1968 Tet offensive—Kubrick reveals the damage done to the collective human soul by the inhumanity of war.
“This is the most tightly crafted Kubrick film since Dr. Strangelove, as well as the most horrific”
—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford, the film received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Kubrick, Hasford, and Michael Herr.
About the filmmaker:
Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, frequently cited as one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history. With his strict control over details and penchant for working from books, he crafted masterpieces in radically different genres, including Spartacus (1960), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), and Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
