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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] Depends what you mean by "nailling" American culture. A complete list of his films reads thus:- Day of the Fight (1951) Flying Padre (1951) The Seafarers (1953) Fear and Desire (1953) Killer's Kiss (1955) The Killing (1956) Paths of Glory (1957) Spartacus (1960) Lolita (1962) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Barry Lyndon (1975) The Shining (1980) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) . . . The first three being short documentary films, the first two of which I've seen and are superb snapshots of little bits of '50's Americana. Beyond that, how many of his feature-films are about (or even set in) America? Fear and Desire I've not seen so can't say; Killer's Kiss and The Killing I have, and are; Lolita and Dr. Strangelove are, but do suffer because of the international casting and (obviously) English location-shooting; then you have nothing until the Shining, FMJ and EWS. So are you saying his films aren't American enough? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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