In this episode of our ongoing Under the Influence series, “The Wire” creator David Simon draws deep and surprising connections between his groundbreaking television series and Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 antiwar classic PATHS OF GLORY. Recalling his experience viewing the film with a group of Baltimore detectives, the writer and producer discusses how Kubrick’s portrayal of a callous and hypocritical military bureaucracy served as a model of narrative and political complexity for his own sprawling story of institutional dysfunction.
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1953 • United States
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Killer’s Kiss
Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1955 • United States
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