Kubrick
Just short note to point you towards The Kubrick Files. Just think about the following response to Clockwork Orange though:
Campaigners opposed to what they saw as unacceptable depictions of violence and rape in the film had begun to send well-researched death threats to the director’s London home.
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| 9 July, 2008, 2:48 am |
I got the Standley Kubrick DVD boxset as a gift a few years ago, and it contains some gems less popular than ‘Orange’ like Barry Lyndon (though not his very early films, eg Paths of Glory). It also contains a bonus disc with a feature-legnth documentary about the filmmaker.
I see it is now on sale at HMV for a mere £29.99 - which is a little over £3 a film.
| 9 July, 2008, 5:54 am |
I remember having a Swedish copy of Clockwork Orange on VHS about 10 years ago, back when it wasn’t available in the UK. It was Swedish-subtitled only. Some of the translations were….funny.
| 9 July, 2008, 4:16 pm |
For a film that was banned throughout the whole period, it certainly had an impact on the naming of indie bands throughout the 1980s and 1990s (most notably ‘Klaxons before Klaxons existed’ band Campag Velocet.)
‘Full Metal Jacket’ is probably the most quotable film ever made. Just ask 2Live Crew.
“You climb obstacles like old people fuck.”
“I am… in a world of shit.”
“Soul brother too bukku!”
(and I defy anyone to name a better marriage of film and music than the fade up from black and the opening bars of ‘These Boots Were Made For Walking’)
| 10 July, 2008, 4:30 pm |
“You climb obstacles like old people fuck.”
Haha! I played the R. Lee Ermey rant for my nephew (who’s thinking of joining the military) and I think it freaked him out a little bit. 
| 12 July, 2008, 6:30 am |
Equating quite a few people who objecting to the glorification of violence in ACO with a few nuts who may or may not have issued death threats (while also ignoring that there were actual copycat murders after the film was released which were at least partially responsible for the film being banned) is the absolute worst form of fanboy trash.
A great novel and a technically brilliant but emotionally void film.
Pauline Kael said it best:
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