Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" lands at The Beverly Theater, bringing one of cinema's most devastating anti-war statements to the big screen. Kirk Douglas stars as a French colonel defending three soldiers accused of cowardice during a doomed WWI offensive, caught between military bureaucracy and basic human decency. Shot in stark black and white, the film's trench warfare sequences and courtroom drama still carry a visceral punch decades after its release.
The Beverly's intimate 150-seat main theater offers a setting well-suited to a film this unflinching—close enough to feel every tense silence and sharp exchange of dialogue. For those who appreciate classic cinema with teeth, or who've never seen Kubrick's early work on a theater screen, this screening offers a chance to experience the film's moral weight the way it was meant to be seen, away from the glow of a laptop or TV.