Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

He dominated the field in this year’s 20th Century March Madness competition, and now we’re celebrating with a parade and a big brass band…it’s time for our series on the films of Stanley Kubrick - Pods Wide Cast! Join us as we fill in the background strokes of Kubrick’s early career - his childhood in the Bronx, his photography apprenticeship with Look Magazine - and as we discuss his first two features - 1953’s FEAR AND DESIRE and 1955’s KILLER’S KISS. Some burning questions we end up asking: how much of later Kubrick is already present in these pretty amateurish works? How do these rank in the patheon of debut films by great directors? Is there a code of ethics for cab drivers when you jump into the backseat and request that they “follow that car?” Why has Ben been buying mannequins off eBay? And more!

Additional Music by Alex Barron

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0:00.0	There is a podcast in this forest.
0:24.5	A podcast that has been recorded, nor one that will be, but any podcast.
0:29.8	And the podcasters who struggle here do not exist unless we call them into being.
0:34.0	This podcast then, all that happens now is outside history.
0:37.2	Only the unchanging shapes of fear and doubt and death are from our world.
0:40.8	These podcasters that you see keep our language and our time would have no other podcast,
0:46.3	but the mind.
0:47.3	So that's the opening narration to fear and desire.
0:51.3	Yeah.
0:52.3	And even more incomprehensible by you putting podcasts and for a bunch of things.
0:56.9	Look, I'm not saying that totally makes sense.
0:58.6	Uh-huh.
0:59.6	Just sounds like.
1:00.6	What I did were what they say in the movie.
1:03.5	This did start.
1:05.0	It's black and white.
1:06.6	It's an hour long.
1:07.6	Fear and desire.
1:08.6	Yeah.
1:09.6	And I mean, black and white.
1:11.6	Did you watch the colorized version on YouTube?
1:13.5	I mean, I was like, what is going on?
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