Re: Clockwork Orange (was Re: RIP Stanley Kubrick)

1999-03-11 Thread Iain Noble
Tom Mohr wrote: Regarding "A Clockwork Orange", Iain Noble wrote: If I'm baffled by anything it's Tom's description of the film as 'decadent' and 'appalling'. I think he's confusing depiction with approval. and You might disapprove of what something shows or says but th

Re: Clockwork Orange (was Re: RIP Stanley Kubrick)

1999-03-11 Thread Stevie Simkin
Iain Noble wrote lotsa sensible stuff and: perhaps you ought to see 'Red Dragon' an earlier film about the first Hannibal Lecter novel with Brian Cox as the good doctor which is rather better. sorry, being nitpicky, but that movie was called "Manhunter", tho I believe it was based on the

Re: A Clockwork Orange

1999-03-11 Thread Ian Durkacz
[A late posting - I get P2 on digest - on this topic which has, by now, already been well covered here] : Bill Silvers: ... was "A Clockwork Orange" in fact banned in the UK as was reported here? ... Do you know if was Kubrick's own doing? Jon Johnson: My understanding is tha

Re: Clockwork Orange (was Re: RIP Stanley Kubrick)

1999-03-10 Thread JKellySC1
got his point across. Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece, and will always be one of the most important films ever made. Slim