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Coming to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the UK on 28 January 2013, Stanley Kubrick's 1953 debut feature, Fear And Desire, is a gut-wrenching tale of survival, as four stranded soldiers attempt to escape from behind enemy lines during an unspecified conflict. Master of Cinema are givng the film a full work over, including a new restoration, and Kubrick's three short films, Day of the Fight, Flying Padre & The Seafarers. The release will also include an exclusive new video introduction from Kubrick scholar, critic and Cahiers du Cinéma American correspondent Bill Krohn, shot in Los Angeles in November 2012. MoC has also released a clip from the film to whet our appetites ahead of this release. From the press release:Independently financed with contributions from Stanley...

What was Stanley Kubrick's first film? Knowing how meticulous the director was — and what an absolute packrat he could be (see: documentary Stanley Kubrick's Boxes for more info on that) — we like to imagine that the filmmaker might have an undiscovered first movie still lurking somewhere in one of his many archives. However, IMDb chronicles the filmmaker's first directorial effort was a 1951 Rko pictures doc called Flying Padre, about a priest who delivers the word of God by monoplane across the world. That same year, though, Kubrick's Day of the Fight was made. After he left Look magazine — where he was employed as a staff photographer throughout the 1940s — the iconic moviemaker wanted to bring his images to life and decided to point...

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