Monday | November 21, 2005 9:00 pm

Paths of Glory

Screening on Film

Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
With Kirk Douglas, Adolph Mejou, George Macready.
US, 1957, 35mm, black & white, 87 min.
English and German with English subtitles.

During World War I, a French general (Macready) orders his men on a suicidal charge; when they fail, he picks three of them to be tried and executed for cowardice. An extraordinarily effective film showing the insanity of war, Paths of Glory is more genuinely pacifist than either Saving Private Ryan or The Thin Red Line. The screenplay is written by Kubrick with two of his favorite novelists, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson.

October 11 – November 29, 2005

In The Trenches: Filming World War I

June 5–19, 1999

Stanley Kubrick – An HFA Memorial Tribute

July 16–21, 2001

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: Directors K–N

February 13–March 8, 2015

Grand Illusions
The Cinema of World War I

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

March 3–April 6

Museum Hours: Mati Diop’s Dahomey

March 7–April 12

Albert Serra, or Cinematic Time Regained

April 4–May 5

Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy

April 7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

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Planet at 50

April 13

The Yugoslav Junction Continues!

April 14

Theo Anthony, Subject to Review

April 17

The Ideal Cinematheque of the Outskirts of the World