A Clockwork Orange
by Stanley Kubrick
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Actor: John Clive, Malcolm McDowell, Michael Bates, Patrick Magee, Warren ClarkeDirector: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: John Alcott
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Bernard Williams
Producer: Max L. Raab
Producer: Si Litvinoff
Writer: Anthony Burgess
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
DVD Reviews of A Clockwork Orange
DVD Review: Kubrick as always!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie, Blu-Ray enhances the experience. Malcolm McDowell is frightening and still relevant in today's society.DVD Review: Kubrick Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Most of these Kubrick Blu-ray releases have been very good, and this is no exception. The movie looks and sounds great, and there are numerous extra features of excellent quality (although Malcolm McDowell comes across as a bit of an egomaniac, which is a shame). This movie is timeless. Even with all the sixties hair-dont's and set decorations on big, bright display, it feels like it could have been made today (well, maybe in a parallel universe where movies like this were still being released), and the impact it has on the viewer remains very strong. DVD Review: A "classic" that is actually worth watching
Summary: 5 Stars
Set in the future, "A Clockwork Orange" tells the story of Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a juvenile delinquent whose idea of fun is committing acts of extreme violence. After being arrested for murder, Alex becomes one of the first people to receive "the treatment", a process which leads to the recipient becoming nauseated at the very thought of violence.
Given that almost 40 years have passed since "A Clockwork Orange" was first released, I went into this film expecting to find something that was dated and worth watching purely for historical reasons. Boy, was I wrong. "A Clockwork Orange" is one of the few "classic" movies that actually deserves its classic status. Everything about this film is truly mind-blowing. Before watching this movie, I had already read the novel upon which it is based, and didn't like it at all (I despised Alex) and I have never been a fan of Kubrick's other works, and yet, I loved every minute of this movie.
Although Stanley Kubrick's script is extremely faithful to the novel, the combination of Kubrick's innovative direction; Malcolm McDowell's acting; some of the most imaginative costumes and sets ever; and what is now my favourite score of all time, set this film apart from its source material. Kubrick and McDowell somehow manage to make Alex simultaneously frightening and likeable (quite an achievement, considering that Alex is one of the vilest characters ever created) and I am astounded that McDowell performance wasn't nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. I am even more astounded that, of the Oscars this film was nominated for (including Best Picture and Best Director), it didn't win any - "The French Connection" took most of the Oscars that year. I haven't seen "The French Connection" (it's next on my "to watch" list), but I find it difficult to imagine how it could possibly be better than this film.
DVD Review: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (WARNER BROS. PICTURES/1971)
Summary: 5 Stars
REVIEW: Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Anthony Burgess' novel "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" is a viscious film to sit through, and time has not lessened its graphic and horrific vision of a future England overrun by hoodlums and thugs and by an ever encroaching/tyrannical government that seeks to "clear out" the overcrowded prison cells in order to make way for the "political offenders" who dare to criticize the system (which makes this a prologue of sorts to George Orwell's "1984"). Malcolm McDowell gives an unforgettable performance as "Little" Alex who is a violent brute that leads his gang of "droogs" through terrifying nights of "ultraviolence" all the while seeming like a nice guy while living under his parent's roof. After Alex is implicated in the slaying of a local woman: he is sentenced to fourteen years in prison. While incarcerated he learns of a secret government program which uses behavior modification techniques in order to "re-train" (and thus, hopefully, eliminate) the violent tendencies of such criminals. Alex agrees to become their guinea pig in return for a commuted sentence, and thus becomes a "clockwork orange": a man whose own freewill is thwarted by a debilitating sickness everytime he feels the urge to use violence or whenever he thinks about raping and beating up on women (in one particularaly bone-chilling scene: Alex fantasizes about being a Roman soldier taking great pleasure in whipping Jesus as He carries His cross to Golgotha). As you can tell from the subject matter: the film is, at times, repulsive to watch yet remarkably trenchent in its social commentary about the nature of personal and political corruption (notice at the end of the film - when the Minister Of The Interior comes to visit Alex with a proposition that will save the government from embarrassment - how Alex calls these representatives his "droogs" just as he called his own gang of thugs at the beginning of the picture), societal hypocrisy, and the need for human freewill (so that each and every individual has the capacity to answer for the good and evil of their own actions) and equal human culpability under the democratic law of the land. Kubrick's painstaking direction and the beautifully nightmarish ebb-and-flow of his vision is dazzling to behold. From the first close-up shot of Alex's glaring eyes to the last image of him rolling around with a buxom girl: it is a remarkably controlled work of cinematic horror. HARSH LANGUAGE: about 25 (mostly) mild words. VIOLENCE: about 24 shocking scenes of the "old ultraviolence". NUDITY/SEXUAL REFERENCES: about 17 instances of both male and female nudity and/or sexual debauchery including rape and the murder of a woman with a giant phallus-shaped sculpture. DRUG REFERENCES: Alex and his gang meet in a bar which serves milk laced with a variety of drugs, and one scene of smoking.
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS: Best Picture, Best Director (Stanley Kubrick), Best Screenplay (Stanley Kubrick based upon the book by Anthony Burgess), Best Film Editing (Bill Butler)
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD NOMINATIONS: Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director (Stanley Kubrick), Best Actor - Drama (Malcolm McDowell)
DVD Review: Definitly a classic that you can watch over and over
Summary: 4 Stars
I would suggest reading the synopsis before watching the movie. Once you know the back ground it's an interesting story inside the mind of a incurable killer. The disk made it's way to Colorado in 2 days and in primo condition.
Description of A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick's striking visual interpretation of Anthony Burgess's famous novel is a masterpiece. Malcolm McDowell delivers a clever, tongue-in-cheek performance as Alex, the leader of a quartet of droogs, a vicious group of young hoodlums who spend their nights stealing cars, fighting rival gangs, breaking into people's homes, and raping women. While other directors would simply exploit the violent elements of such a film without subtext, Kubrick maintains Burgess's dark, satirical social commentary. We watch Alex transform from a free-roaming miscreant into a convict used in a government experiment that attempts to reform criminals through an unorthodox new medical treatment. The catch, of course, is that this therapy may be nothing better than a quick cure-all for a society plagued by rampant crime. A Clockwork Orange works on many levels--visual, social, political, and sexual--and is one of the few films that hold up under repeated viewings. Kubrick not only presents colorfully arresting images, he also stylizes the film by utilizing classical music (and Wendy Carlos's electronic classical work) to underscore the violent scenes, which even today are disturbing in their display of sheer nihilism. Ironically, many fans of the film have missed that point, sadly being entertained by its brutality rather than being repulsed by it. --Bryan ReesmanStanley Kubrick's striking visual interpretation of Anthony Burgess's famous novel is a masterpiece. Malcolm McDowell delivers a clever, tongue-in-cheek performance as Alex, the leader of a quartet of droogs, a vicious group of young hoodlums who spend their nights stealing cars, fighting rival gangs, breaking into people's homes, and raping women. While other directors would simply exploit the violent elements of such a film without subtext, Kubrick maintains Burgess's dark, satirical social commentary. We watch Alex transform from a free-roaming miscreant into a convict used in a government experiment that attempts to reform criminals through an unorthodox new medical treatment. The catch, of course, is that this therapy may be nothing better than a quick cure-all for a society plagued by rampant crime. A Clockwork Orange works on many levels--visual, social, political, and sexual--and is one of the few films that hold up under repeated viewings. Kubrick not only presents colorfully arresting images, he also stylizes the film by utilizing classical music (and Wendy Carlos's electronic classical work) to underscore the violent scenes, which even today are disturbing in their display of sheer nihilism. Ironically, many fans of the film have missed that point, sadly being entertained by its brutality rather than being repulsed by it. --Bryan Reesman
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