Stanley Kubrick was a reclusive and mysterious figure in many ways, but he made no bones about the movies he was proud of (everything after 2001) and those he wasn’t wild about (Spartacus, Killer’s Kiss). Most of all, he never wanted anyone to see his 1953 debut Fear and Desire, a micro-budgeted drama he made at the ripe old age of 25.

Few have ever seen it, and those who have were unsurprisingly unimpressed, but film nerd completists will finally get a chance to see it on Dec. 14 when Turner Classic Movies presents it as part of a salute to the film preservationists at Motion Picture Department at George Eastman House.

Kubrick, who shot the film quickly with a crew of about 15 people, was never especially proud of his maiden effort, calling it a “a bumbling amateur film exercise.”  Fear and Desire received its first retrospective screening at the 1993 Telluride Film Festival and has only been presented a few times since, according to TCM.

Though he’s now the critical darling of TV comedy with his own Louie, Louis CK’s first mainstream exposure for many was via fellow critical darling Parks and Recreation. After his character departed Pawnee for a job in San Diego he left the show, but he’ll return for an episode early next year.

At PaleyFest2011 last March, Poehler expressed hope that Louis would someday return. “I would love to see Louis and Adam together,” she told me. “I think it would be very interesting to have [Dave and Ben] in the same room together.”

In a fairly brilliant move that will likely earn them tons of cred with the angry hordes of the internet (hordes of which I am a member) that turned on them for daring to charge actual money for every movie ever made, Netflix has revived Arrested Development for an unspecified number of new episodes with unspecified cast members.

“Of all the projects we’ve been involved with over the years, we probably get more questions about Mitch Hurtwitz’s brilliant ‘Arrested Development’ than any other– everyone, ourselves included, seems to feel like the Bluths left the party a bit too soon,” state Imagine Television’s Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. “Bringing a series back from cancellation almost never happens, but then, ‘Arrested’ always was about as unconventional as they get, so it seems totally appropriate that this show that broke the mold is smashing it to pieces once again.”

Continuing a late career renaissance, Terrence Malick will shoot two new movies next year according to a FilmNation press release, with overlapping casts including Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Ryan Gosling. There are no plot details included, but they’re currently titled Lawless and Knight of Cups.

This is in addition to the untitled film he’s already finished with Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams, and the IMAX Tree of Life “companion piece” Voyage of Time, which is allegedly finished as well. In other words, Terrence Malick currently has more films either ready to shoot or already in the can than he made in the entirety of the 20th century.