"Literally Confronting Themselves"

"Unseen for decades, it started to surface at festivals and revival theaters in the 1990s, at which point one especially scathing assessment declared it 'a bumbling, amateur film exercise, written by a failed poet, crewed by a few friends, and a completely inept oddity, boring and pretentious.'
"The source of that harsh judgment? Kubrick himself."

Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times looks back to Stanley Kubrick's first movie, Fear and Desire.