Product: A Clockwork Orange (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Four Oscar Nominations, But No Oscar
What more can be said about this 1971 masterpiece. Should it have won top honors over The French Connection as Best Picture? As we all know French Connection took home the ocsar and perhaps deservedly. It is afterall the most influential and most copied cop movie of all time and Gene Hackman was stunning in his portayal of Popeye Doyle. However, with four oscar nominations, including best picture and best director, you would think it would have coped top honors in at least one catagogy. Not so, Kubrick came up empty despite the superalative reviews.Predictably, the academy stayed away from this dark and distrurbing masterpiece. For my money this is Kuberick's finest hour. As in all his movies he immerses the viewer with a torrent of sensory and auditory stimuli. I loved the musical selections of every scene, without exception. And, the back-lighting and orange tinge of almost every shot proves Kuberick the master of atmospheric juxtaposition.I loved this movie, but then again I loved The French Connection as well. If my vote counted it would have been a tie... Too bad!