Personally, Clockwork Orange is a personal favorite of mine — all of Stanely Kubricks films are with the exception of Eyes Wide Shut (which I thought was absolute sh*t).
Great soundtrack, and utterly prescient.
The source novel is phenomenal.
Kubrick’s daughter claims “Eyes Wide Shut” was a documentary.
He was trying to expose the dark side of the American elite class.
He died of a heart attack just before the movie was released.
It forever ruined “Singin’ In the Rain” for me.
Mark Steyn said the only good thing about Eyes Wide Shut is that it kept Tom Cruise out of the country for a year.
Huxley’s novels are all phenomenal. Kubrick’s movies - I agree with you.
“all of Stanely Kubricks films are with the exception of Eyes Wide Shut (which I thought was absolute sh*t).”
I was on the road doing antenna site surveys for a couple of years when “Eyes Wide Shut” came out and it was on HBO at the time.
Most of the hotels that I ended up staying in some of the bigger cities had cable, and if they had cable some of them even had HBO. I must have watched that movie 9 or 10 times during that leg of the site survey trip and I still didn’t get it... but I made an effort to because there really wasn’t much else to do when you’re on the road in a hotel room and you got HBO and a dog pile of reports to complete and submit before you hit the road in the morning.