Paths of Glory. Photo: Park Circus, Amazon MGM
HamptonsFilm and Guild Hall’s Winter Classic series returns with HamptonsFilm Co-Chair Alec Baldwin and Chief Creative Officer David Nugent presenting Stanley Kubrick‘s 1957 epic film PATHS OF GLORY, starring Kirk Douglas.
PATHS OF GLORY remains a monument to the anti-human aspects of war. Kirk Douglas leads a consistently excellent cast as a man of peace who answers his country’s call to war. He and his regiment are set up for suicide missions and are generally manipulated in ways that show no regard for their lives. Time again, Douglas finds himself in the centre of a power struggle that has nothing to do with the war. And he is constantly frustrated in his attempts to do right by his men.
PATHS OF GLORY, even today, stands as one of the most moving studies of men in armed conflict ever to be recorded on film. This is the film that first brought Stanley Kubrick (DR. STRANGELOVE, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING) both wide acclaim and controversy.
Print from a new restoration by UCLA.
In a post-screening discussion, Baldwin and Nugent will be joined by Nerissa K. Aksamit, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of History at St. Joseph’s University. Together they will look at the legacy, influence, and relevance of the film nearly 60 years after its release.
Run Time: 90 Minutes
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Alec Baldwin
Since 1980, Alec Baldwin has appeared in numerous productions on stage, in films and on television. He received a Tony nomination (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1992) an Oscar nomination (The Cooler, 2004) and has won three Emmy awards, three Golden Globes and seven consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC-TV's 30 Rock, making him the actor with the most SAG Awards of all time. His films include MIAMI BLUES, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, MALICE, THE EDGE, IT'S COMPLICATED, BLUE JASMINE, STILL ALICE, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION, and THE BOSS BABY among many others.
Baldwin earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1994 and has received honorary doctorates from NYU (2010) and the Manhattan School of Music (2012). He has served on numerous boards related to the arts, the environment and public policy including the Hamptons International Film Festival, Bay Street Theater, The Actors Studio, Guild Hall of East Hampton, and the Roundabout Theatre Company. He currently serves on the board of People For the American Way and the New York Philharmonic.
He has authored three books: A PROMISE TO OURSELVES, his memoir entitled NEVERTHELESS and, with Kurt Andersen, the Donald Trump parody YOU CAN’T SPELL AMERICA WITHOUT ME. He is the host of a podcast, HERE’S THE THING, for iHeartRadio.
Baldwin is married to author and wellness expert Hilaria Thomas Baldwin. They have seven children: Carmen, Rafael, Leonardo, Romeo, Eduardo, Lucia, and Ilaria, as well as his eldest, Ireland Baldwin. Hilaria and Alec oversee The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation, which focuses on funding the arts.
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Nerissa Aksamit
Nerissa Aksamit is a social and cultural historian of modern European history with a specialization in twentieth-century war and society. Her primary research interests are the transnational dimensions and impacts of the Second World War on societies and institutions in Britain and Germany. Aksamit is currently working on a manuscript based on her doctoral dissertation, “Training Friends and Overseas Relief: The Friends Ambulance Unit and the Friends Relief Service, 1939 to 1948.” This project is a transnational study of two British Quaker voluntary organizations and their humanitarian work in Germany among refugees, displaced persons, and ethnic Germans during and after the Second World War. She is also working on a project for the “The Red Cross Movement: Voluntary Organisations and Reconstruction in Western Europe in the 20th century” symposium at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po in Paris, France. Her contribution, “Reconciliation: From Mount Waltham to the British Occupation Zone, 1943-1948,” is an examination of the opportunities and limitations of the British Friends Relief Service in their relief efforts concerning spiritual rehabilitation and international reconciliation in the British Occupation Zone in Germany.
Aksamit joined the History Department at St. Joseph’s University, New York in 2021. She offers survey courses in Western Civilization as well as specialized courses on the period from 1914 to 1945, gender and modern war, and public history and war commemoration in modern Europe.
Sponsors
Performing Arts programs are supported in part by Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, Henry and Peggy Schleiff, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, Monica and Peter Tessler, and Vital Projects Fund.
Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming, and the Anne Wolf Concert Fund.
Dance programming is supported by Principal Sponsor SHS Foundation.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: Natascia Ayers and Jim Ciquera, Bonnie and Joel Bergstein, Gene Bernstein and Kathy Walsh, Amy Cooney and Marty Feinman, John and Joan D’Addario, Suzanne and John Golden, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Steve Pesner, in memory of his wife, Michèle Pesner, whose entire life was devoted to all aspects of culture, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Stacey and Oliver Stanton, and Susi and Peter Wunsch.
