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Paths of GloryOther

by Stanley Kubrick

Who uses, recommends or left Paths of Glory, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Pat Healy
American actor in Magnolia, Great World of Sound (2007), Compliance, Better Call Saul and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023); directed the feature Take Me (2017).
loved

Paths of Glory is, in my humble opinion, the finest war film ever made.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Pat Healy, the entry for Paths of Glory.

2017-05-19·criterion.com ↗

William Friedkin
American director (1935 to 2023) of the New Hollywood era; won the Academy Award for The French Connection (1971) and directed The Exorcist (1973) and Sorcerer (1977).
loved

If 1956’s The Killing set the scene for a visionary new director, Paths of Glory, released a year later confirms it.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by William Friedkin, the entry for Paths of Glory.

2012-10-30·criterion.com ↗

Michael Korda
English-born American editor and author; editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, and author of the family memoir Charmed Lives (1979) and lives of Eisenhower, T. E. Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
loved

But Paths of Glory is one of the last great triumphs of black-and-white filmmaking.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Michael Korda, the entry for Paths of Glory.

2011-11-29·criterion.com ↗

Roger Corman
American director and producer (1926 to 2024) of low-budget independent films, including the Poe cycle, who gave early work to Coppola, Scorsese, Nicholson and many others.
liked

But there is a unique quality of Paths of Glory that speaks not only about the power of war films as antiwar vehicles but also about the issue of war in general.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Roger Corman, the entry for Paths of Glory.

2013-07-30·criterion.com ↗

Guillermo del Toro
Mexican film director of Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water and Pinocchio.
liked

Paths of Glory is a searing indictment of the war machine, as pertinent now as it was in its day.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Guillermo del Toro, the entry for Paths of Glory.

2010-12-07·criterion.com ↗

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