The Picture House presents

KUBRICK: MASTER OF THE (ANTI)WAR FILM

PART OF THE NEA'S "BIG READ"

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  The Picture House presents a three-film retrospective in conjunction with the NEA-sponsored “Big Read” initiative, in which entire communities read a single book together.  Inspired by Westchester County’s choice, Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, the series will focus on the war films of master auteur Stanley Kubrick and his antiwar messages.  Tickets can be purchased online or at the box office.

The schedule of films is as follows (descriptions below):

PATHS OF GLORY (1957) ----------------------------------- Wednesday, February 3rd at 7:30pm

DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)  ------------------------------Wednesday, Februrary 10th at 7:30pm

FULL METAL JACKET (1987) ----------------------------- Wednesday, February 17th at 7:30pm

The series will open with PATHS OF GLORY (1957) on Wednesday, February 3rd at 7:30pm.  Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators 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).

The series continues on Wednesday, February 10th at 7:30pm with DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964).  In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and played the situation for laughs. DR. STRANGELOVE's jet-black satire and a host of superb comic performances have kept the film fresh and entertaining over the years.

Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, FULL METAL JACKET (1987), crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel, The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp training under the profane, power-saw guidance of drill instructor Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey, a real-life drill instructor whose performance is one of the most terrifyingly realistic on record). Part two takes place in Nam, as seen through the eyes of the now thoroughly indoctrinated marines. The film will screen on February 17th at 7:30pm.