A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Aubrey Morris, James Marcus
Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Composer: Walter Carlos
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 23, 2007
DVD Features:
- 2-Disc Set
- Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French
- Mono 1.0
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - 1. Malcolm McDowell; Nick Redman - Historian
- Featurettes - 1. Channel Four Documentary - STILL TICKIN: THE RETURN OF CLOCKWORK ORANGE"
- 2. GREAT BOLSHY YARBLOCKOS! - Making a CLOCKWORK ORANGE
- 3. CAREER PROFILE - O LUCKY MALCOLM!
- Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews
Ambitious and stylized (perhaps to a fault), Kubrick's poignantly prophetic satire of crime and punishment, redemption and free will, is still much misunderstood by critics emphasizing its ultra-violence.
Spectacular, operatic, colorful, and exquisitely photographed.
All of Kubrick´s films have generated controversy, but this one engendered outright hostility.
Directed with assurance and filled with the cynicism, paranoia, visual flair (and lurid titillation) that characterised so much of his work, this is vintage Kubrick and classic cinema.
Remains as unsettling and shocking today as the day it was released.
Who else but Stanley Kubrick could successfully direct an ultra-stylish, sci-fi cult film about the impossibility of redemption in the absence of freely willed sin?
Stanley Kubrick's latest film takes the heavy realities of the 'do-your-thing' and 'law-and-order' syndromes, runs them through a cinematic centrifuge, and spews forth the commingled comic horrors of a regulated society.
A very bad film -- snide, barely competent, and overdrawn -- that enjoys a perennial popularity, perhaps because its confused moral position appeals to the secret Nietzscheans within us.
Ice cold, indecent, and way too obvious to be in any way deep.
A sexless, inhuman film, whose power derives from a ruthless subordination of its content to the demands of telling a good story.
May be Kubrick's greatest film, for its lasting influence and social significance.
A Clockwork Orange is an ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy masquerading as an Orwellian warning.
It's a very dark message, but maybe that's why the film caught on as a video cult item in the 80s.
Technically, the film is a marvel. It's easily Kubrick's best and boldest work.
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