(Stanley Kubrick, 1952, 62 min., 35mm)
The most wanted (and controversial) "lost" film of our time was made by director Stanley Kubrick when he was only 23, with Paul Mazursky in a startling screen début. After a brief release in New York (as an X-rated double feature with a Buñuel melodrama!), Fear and Desire had vanished. Dissatisfied with his first feature, the director himself withdrew and reportedly destroyed all surviving prints except this one, found in Romanesque circumstances and recently restored by the George Eastman Museum. Preceded by Kubrick’s first two short documentaries, provided by the Library of Congress.
Day of the Fight
(Stanley Kubrick, US 1951, 16 min., 35mm)
Day of the Fight chronicles a day in the life of boxer Walter Cartier, based on a photo feature Kubrick had shot for Look magazine two years earlier.
Flying Padre
(Stanley Kubrick, US 1951, 9 min., 35mm)
The Flying Padre is Reverend Fred Stadtmueller, whose 4,000 square mile parish is so large he uses a Piper Cub aircraft to travel from one remote settlement to another.