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Director Stanley Kubrick has yet to show that he can actually direct actors--from a few of his films one gets the feeling he must treat them with the same disdain he harbors for the big bad world. Clockwork Orange (like Dr. Strangelove,) shines, though, because it accommodates both Kubrick's cerebral and perverse artsiness and a free-lance format for Malcolm MacDowell. MacDowell requires no coaching or handholding here; he does for amoral punkdom what the Bowery Boys never could. The union of these two visionary hard-guys still proves chilling, and no amount of humane breath could melt...
...hellish World War I French front, to the glaring, mausoleum-like courtrooms of Versaille, death permeates every frame of this film. There is nothing easy about watching this movie, nothing very happy. Sometimes it is hollow and sometimes it is over-intellectualized in an affected way. But Kubrick, who knows how to make a movie and thinks about it hard, does not let details float wrong. He knows how to mount an assault, and he knows how to do it without taking facile roads. He has been accused, as systematically as he works, of the inability to interiorize...
...Kubrick's Paths of Glory;Kazan's Viva Zapata, Friday and Sunday at 8 & 10 respectively...
Color the scene A Clockwork Orange. On the night of the Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton heavyweight fight last week, the action outside Yankee Stadium was worthy of Stanley Kubrick's chiller: gangs of youths rampaged, snatching tickets from fans, breaking into parked cars, seizing a city bus, attempting unsuccessfully to get into the stadium. An attractive woman was shoved face-first into a concrete wall outside the ballpark, and while she bleated in terror, three patrolmen watched unmoving. Pickpockets bumped profitably through the crowd lifting wallets, and young thugs from the wasteland of the South Bronx grabbed women...
...space-ship Solaris, a lab set up to study an oozing, brain-colored body of liquid on another planet. Yet Gibaryan soon confronts the likelihood that the ocean Solaris may actually represent his own subconscious, and Tarkovsky appears to be attempting the same sort of space consciousness analogy Kubrick hinted at in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Maybe...