The Village Voice, November 30th, 2005
PATHS OF GLORY Directed by Stanley Kubrick December 2 through 8, Film Forum Masters of war:Kubrick's spare, trench-level view of combat Whatever its flaws, Jarhead has raised a perennial question-is there any such thing as an anti-war war movie?-and what's more, proposed an answer: If it's screenable for our boys, it ain't anti-war. Sam Fuller, whose pointthat combat cannot be represented but only lived is often cited in critiques of the genre, also made the useful distinction between those movies that smacked of "recruitment flavor" and those that didn't. And when it comes to recruitment ...
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