Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Kubrick's Masterpiece and one of my Top 5
If a less-than-glowing review of this film is owed to its extreme violence, the person condemning is missing the point. This film is _supposed_ to be hard to watch; you are _supposed_ to be repelled. Kubrick's genius here manifests in casting this ickiness against a breathtaking production...unparalleled art direction, simultaneously futuristic and gothic 1971, and a soundtrack that my parents played so much back in the '70s that it taught me to love Beethoven. The DVD version is very pretty!...a true "art film", this movie was ripe for re-digitizing. Time to retire my video....