Full Metal Jacket @ the Museum of the Moving Image

Saturday, February 4, Introduced by Owen Gleiberman2:00 p.m.
FULL METAL JACKET Selected by Owen Gleiberman1987, 116 mins., United Kingdom. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin. From the moment that Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam film was released, far too much attention was paid to its funny and harrowing Marine basic-training sequence—a brilliant coup de cinéma, to be sure, but merely the prelude to a movie that embodies, as no other has, the unstable and terrifying foreignness of war. More than Coppola or Cimino or Stone, Kubrick caught the insanity—the psychological disintegration—of combat in his film’s very form, creating, in the process, his least-acknowledged masterpiece.—Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly