It’s said that timing is everything. This is certainly true when it comes to movies. Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole was one of his best films, and had it been released in the early forties, it might have been a hit, but by 1951, people had no use for Wilder’s cynicism. It’s no coincidence …
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In November 1957, Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory was released in West Germany. It would appear in American cinemas a month later. When it did, film critics were rightly impressed and singled out one scene as proof of Kubrick’s genius. It was the scene of the court-martial, where the soldiers are shot from an elevated …
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