https://vo.rs/tags/sterling-hayden/Latest from the Sterling Hayden desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-killing-kubricks-racetrack-robbery-in-reverse/<p>Stanley Kubrick was twenty-seven when he made <em>The Killing</em>, his third feature and his first that anyone remembers, and he made it by doing something the studios found faintly perverse: he took a perfectly linear crime novel and smashed its timeline into overlapping fragments. A robbery at a racetrack is committed by five or six men, each assigned one small task, and Kubrick refuses to show the day straight. He follows one man up to a moment, backs the clock up, follows another to the same moment from a different angle, backs up again, threading a dry, authoritative newsreel narrator through the whole thing to keep us oriented. The result is a heist film assembled like a jigsaw, and it invented a grammar that crime cinema is still using.</p>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000