A Clockwork Orange (1971)

[Winston T. Boogie]

Title: A Clockwork Orange

Tagline: Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.

Genre: Science Fiction, Drama

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, James Marcus, Michael Tarn, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Miriam Karlin, Sheila Raynor, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Clive Francis, Richard Connaught, Pauline Taylor, Philip Stone, David Prowse, Michael Gover, Anthony Sharp, Margaret Tyzack, Gillian Hills, Carol Drinkwater, Virginia Wetherell, Katya Wyeth, George Coulouris

Release: 1971-12-18

Runtime: 136

Plot: Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing experiment designed to take violence off the streets.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s decline-of-civilisation novel remains a chilling, thrilling and unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control. The film returns to cinemas from 5 April 2019.

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Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s decline-of-civilisation novel remains a chilling, thrilling and unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control. Set in a flamboyantly stylised near-future where gangs of disenfranchised teenagers indulge in narcotic cocktails and revel in acts of ‘ultraviolence’, the film centres on Alex (McDowell) and his band of droogs.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

I wonder why now and not wait until the film's 50th anniversary in a couple of years?

 

[Ushabye]

I suspect this is why:
https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/stanley-kubrick-the-exhibition