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23 April 2012 1:25 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »

What was Stanley Kubrick's first film? Knowing how meticulous the director was — and what an absolute packrat he could be (see: documentary Stanley Kubrick's Boxes for more info on that) — we like to imagine that the filmmaker might have an undiscovered first movie still lurking somewhere in one of his many archives. However, IMDb chronicles the filmmaker's first directorial effort was a 1951 Rko pictures doc called Flying Padre, about a priest who delivers the word of God by monoplane across the world. That same year, though, Kubrick's Day of the Fight was made. After he left Look magazine — where he was employed as a staff photographer throughout the 1940s — the iconic moviemaker wanted to bring his images to life and decided to point...

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12 April 2012 4:01 AM, PDT | FlicksNews.net | See recent FlicksNews.net news »

On this Check This... is Stanley Kubrick's first film the short documentary 'Day of the Fight.'

Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The Fight" tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier, particularly the day of his bout with black middleweight Bobby James.

This 16-minute short opens with a short (about 4 minutes) study of boxing's history, narrated by veteran newscaster Douglas Edwards in a no-nonsense, noir tone of voice. After this, we follow Walter (and his twin brother Vincent) through his day as he prepares for his 10:00 P.M. bout.

After eating breakfast, going to early mass and eating lunch, he starts arranging his things for the fight at 4:00 P.M. By 8:00, he is waiting in his dressing room, where he undergoes a mental transformation, turning into the fighting machine the crowd clamors for. »

- noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)

9 April 2012 11:53 AM, PDT | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »

Who are the great American film directors? More to the point, who do we think are the great American film directors? Well, there’s Ford, of course, the Zeus of the American pantheon, by turns comic, epic, maudlin and humane. Then there’s Welles, the ill-fated genius, abused by producers but beloved of critics. Spielberg, even in his seventh decade, is still the boy wonder; Scorsese the mad scientist. Griffith is the wise forefather, deeply flawed but idolized nonetheless, while Hawks is ageless, just as sly and self-assured as he was at the time of “The Big Sleep” (1946).

Kubrick, however, beats them all.

Is there anyone more respected or, with the possible exception of Hitchcock, recognizable? Turn on any Stanley Kubrick movie and you should know instantly, whether you’ve seen it before or not, who the film’s director is. The peerless, pristine images; the long, empty corridors; the upturned, »

- Graham Daseler

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