The short blurb I read about The Killing (1956) claimed that it was the movie that made director Stanley Kubrick’s career. It also asserted that it is the film to… Read more “The Killing (1956), by Albert W. Vogt III”
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, by Albert W. Vogt III
Most people know today’s film, number thirty-nine on the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest American Films of All Time, as simply Dr. Strangelove (1964). Its full title is Dr. Strangelove or:… Read more “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, by Albert W. Vogt III”
2001: A Space Odyssey, by Albert W. Vogt III
Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 classic 2001: A Space Odyssey is the longest two-and-a-half-hour movie ever. I do not count myself as a member of that strain of our population in constant… Read more “2001: A Space Odyssey, by Albert W. Vogt III”
Full Metal Jacket, by Albert W. Vogt III
The only Stanley Kubrick films I reviewed are A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980). If you are at all familiar with these films, you will understand the tone of most… Read more “Full Metal Jacket, by Albert W. Vogt III”
A Clockwork Orange, by Albert W. Vogt III
When researching my doctoral dissertation, The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928-1973(2013), my quest for information brought me to Georgetown University. In the special collections department of… Read more “A Clockwork Orange, by Albert W. Vogt III”
The Legionnaire 