Austin Blackburn
His Films
Fear and Desire (1953)
“Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires.”
Killer's Kiss (1955)
“Ready to catch a train to his hometown, a washed-up boxer tells us about the strange and twisty events that happened to him the past couple of days.”
The Killing (1956)
“Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.”
Paths of Glory (1957)
“After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them”
Spartacus (1960)
“The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising”
Lolita (1962)
"A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet”
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
“An insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.”
2001: A Space Odyssey (1969)
“The Monoliths push humanity to reach for the stars; after their discovery in Africa generations ago, the mysterious objects lead mankind on an awesome journey to Jupiter, with the help of H.A.L. 9000: the world's greatest supercomputer.”
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
“In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.”
Barry Lyndon (1975)
“An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.”
The Shining (1980)
“A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.”
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
“A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.”
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
“A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.”
