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Exciting news:
Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire to Appear in the Masters of Cinema Series
Eureka Entertainment has announced that it is planning to release on Blu-ray director Stanley Kubrick's rarely seen first feature film Fear and Desire. The release is expected to be available online and in shops across the United Kingdom in late January 2013.
This upcoming release, which will feature the new restoration of Fear and Desire, carried out by The Library of Congress in conjunction with Kino Lorber, Inc., will be the first ever official release of the film in the United Kingdom.
Independently financed with contributions from Kubrick's family and friends in an era when an "independent cinema" was still far from the norm, FEAR AND DESIRE first saw release in 1953 at the Guild Theater in New York thanks to the enterprising distributor Joseph Burstyn. Its exhibition led Kubrick to the dazzling career and near-complete artistic freedom which to this day remains unparalleled in the annals of Hollywood history.
The film tells the story of a war waged (in the present? in the future?) between two forces... In the midst of the conflict, a plane carrying four soldiers has crashed behind enemy lines. From here out, it is kill or be killed: a female hostage is taken on account of being a potential informer; an enemy general and his aide are discovered during a scouting mission... What lies in store for this ragtag group of killers, between their perilous landing in the forest, and the final raft-float downstream... this is the tale of Kubrick's extraordinary picture.
Note: In the U.S., Fear and Desire will be released on Blu-ray by Kino Classics on October 23rd.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=9485
Official press release:
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Eureka Entertainment announced today for release as part of its world-renowned and award-winning Masters of Cinema Series a glorious presentation of Stanley Kubrick's rarely-seen first feature film, FEAR AND DESIRE, in a new restoration carried out by The Library of Congress in conjunction with Kino Lorber, Inc. This is the first time the film will officially appear on home video in the United Kingdom, and will be released in Blu-ray and DVD editions in late January 2013.
This edition will mark the first wide-release of the only other Stanley Kubrick film which has remained nearly impossible to see in the United Kingdom -- since the 1999 re-release of the notorious A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, following the director's death.
The film tells the story of a war waged (in the present? in the future?) between two forces... In the midst of the conflict, a plane carrying four soldiers has crashed behind enemy lines. From here out, it is kill or be killed: a female hostage is taken on account of being a potential informer; an enemy general and his aide are discovered during a scouting mission... What lies in store for this ragtag group of killers, between their perilous landing in the forest, and the final raft-float downstream... this is the tale of Kubrick's extraordinary picture.
Ron Benson, Managing Director of Eureka Entertainment stated "It is an unbelievable privilege to be able to make this thrilling film available in such an extraordinary restoration as carried out by Kino Lorber and the Library of Congress, and to present it in a form which will 'do right' by Kubrick -- that director whose exacting standards, more than any other, warrant a conscientious and superb presentation."
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