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...create radically different ways of looking at things, it can reflect a part of the popular mind, but finally it will have accomplished the most by having its best ideas stolen by other, better manipulators. Hence, Anthony Burgess and Kubrick in the just barely future of A Clockwork Orange, and the imaginary but parallel worlds of Vladimir Nabokov...
...Lisa, Diary of a Mad Housewife), is perhaps the most zealous of all the ad vocates for a feminine point of view in films. "Why are male directors so in volved in showing how barbaric man is?" she asks. "I can't imagine a woman making either Clockwork Orange or Straw Dogs. Women would bring to the screen something that celebrates life, that investigates its wider possibilities instead of exploring depravity. My whole approach to films since the beginning has been from a woman's angle. I've never portrayed any wom an as a demeaned object...
...Clockwork Orange, Kubrick's Brave New World. Sack...
...Killing, his third production and first real success. A thieves-falling-out caper movie, its characters were so overheated that the action verged on black comedy, but they were recognizable enough to retain sympathy when necessary: Kubrick here walked a much tighter rope than the one he toes in Clockwork, Sterling Hayden played a savvy gunny, Elisha Cook the pathetic hen-pecked cashier who cracks--and kills the rest of Hayden's crew. A grotesquely muscled bit-player voiced the director's point-of-view (in an incoherent Russian accent): the crook is an attractive figure when the values...
...Clockwork Orange makes it seem that Kubrick did get lost in the stars and has become a spaced-out religionist. Aside from his ludicrously simplistic emphasis on free will, the Bronx enfant terrible has lost his purely filmic bearings. The film shows the limits of crudeness. When it takes an actor three minutes to roll off a provocative phrase like "the old in-out in-out", witty language is killed. When there are no developed antagonisms, and the camera supports the actions of a single group, gang warfare is threatless and meaningless. And, perhaps intimidated by the director...