“Treat it like a wobbly, precocious demo from a 24-year-old with mighty aspirations, filled with hints of what he would become, and you’ll be properly enthralled.”
—Village Voice

“If FEAR AND DESIRE is uneven and sometimes reveals an experimental rather than a polished exterior, its overall effect is entirely worthy of the sincere effort put into it.”
—The New York Times

Stanley Kubrick’s first narrative feature FEAR AND DESIRE, an anti-war war movie, shows ample promise — even with its microscopic budget — of the filmmaker’s developing genius. It screens with Kubrick’s early short in-color doc, THE SEAFARERS, also newly restored.