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Article: The country of the mind in Kubrick's Fear and Desire.(Movie Review)
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- Film Criticism
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- September 22, 2004
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One suspects that [Kubrick] did not find it disagreeable
to know that the only traceable print of [Fear and
Desire] was in private hands and not easily available
for public screening.
--Alexander Walker, 1999
Nearly forty years passed before Stanley Kubrick's first film re-emerged for general audiences. Allegorical in structure, Fear and Desire is the story of four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in a nameless war. When it finally resurfaced in 1991 at the Telluride Film Festival, Fear and Desire was understandably highly anticipated; the film, however, disappointed many devoted Kubrick followers and film cineastes. Anticipating such a ...