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A Clockwork Orange
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change… From TMDB
246 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 science fiction crime film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee and Carl Duering.
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On release, A Clockwork Orange was met with mixed reviews. Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised the film: "McDowell is splendid as tomorrow's child, but it is always Mr. Kubrick's picture, which is even technically more interesting than 2001. Among other devices, Mr. Kubrick constantly uses what I assume to be a wide-angle lens to distort space relationships within scenes, so that the disconnection between lives, and between people and environment, becomes an actual, literal fact." The following year, after the film won the New York Film Critics Award, he called it "a brilliant and dangerous work, but it is dangerous in a way that brilliant things sometimes are". The film also had…
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60 of 246 · most liked firstApparently people are doing sing-alongs to songs at screenings of Wicked. I find that so annoying when it happens. I remember one time I went to a movie revival and everyone was singing-along to Singing In The Rain. It ruined A Clockwork Orange for me.
negative · AI labelView post →As soon as I read this I knew this was a Paramount picture. This is what the future of the film industry will be like if they get control of Warner Bros. Just a bunch of, 'What if A Clockwork Orange-ing people is good actually?' ass movies exclusively starring infamous degenerates.
neutral · AI labelView post →my other pick for "great looking movie that is actually kind of bad" is A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, my least favorite kubrick by a country mile
negative · AI labelView post →Right, new rule, for every pointless live action version that’s made to boost numbers by getting a more adult audience, there should be an animated, kids version of a classic Hollywood film. I suggest we start with A Clockwork Orange.
neutral · AI labelView post →For International Women’s Day, I wanted to highlight Wendy Carlos, a composer that helped pioneer synth/electronic music in the 60’s/70’s and lent her talent to film scores such as A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, & Tron.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love that, even in the midst of the dawning recognition that he could now celebrate the greatest achievement of his professional career, Curt Cignetti looked and sounded like he wanted to drag his offensive line into the film room and put them in the machine from A Clockwork Orange
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 A Clockwork Orange (1971) By NickCharge
neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge June 13 - movie or TV character played by Malcolm McDowell that is NOT A Clockwork Orange H. G. Wells - Time After Time #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Wendy Carlos (composer for A Clockwork Orange, Tron, other classic films).
neutral · AI labelView post →Add a food to a movie title. A Clockwork Orange Julius
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching the Losey movie where Alex from A Clockwork Orange and Quint from Jaws get chased by a helicopter through the set of Metal Gear Solid V and that’s the whole movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →A Clockwork Orange (1971) 🎬🧡 Directed by Stanley Kubrick
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971). Director: Stanley Kubrick. Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee. Do I love this movie? Hint: look at my profile pic. Will I give it 5 stars on this rewatch? We'll see...but you don't have to be visionary or prophetic genius like Kubrick to guess. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →A Clockwork Orange (1971) Directed by Stanley Kubrick
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE boxd.it/ejuMTL Dystopian nightmare feels more relevant than ever in 2026 as society dehumanizes the "other." Visceral slap to the face, challenging, confrontational, disturbing & brutally funny masterpiece. Still pissed McDowell missed Oscar nod. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →I genuinely think being on Twitter alters your brain for the worse. Like crystal meth. There are barely any humans there, just that torture film from A Clockwork Orange, the only difference being you’ve pinned your own eyelids open.
neutral · AI labelView post →Shin Megami Tensei fans trying to recruit Pokemon players is so fucking funny. It's like if you went to a family that was disappointed by the Super Mario Bros. Movie and told them A Clockwork Orange is way better and they should watch that instead. You're technically right but also lmao
neutral · AI labelView post →The distinctive 1971 poster for A Clockwork Orange doesn't really have a typeface. The letters were designed by Philip Castle specifically for the poster. They are similar to OP-Letter (1968), though you can get away with Gill Kayo (1932) or Gill Sans Ultra Bold if you're trying to copy it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 A Clockwork Orange (1971) By NickChargeArt
neutral · AI labelView post →(120 minutes into the film 'A Clockwork Orange') *whispering to my date* wow, really saving the orange reveal for the end, I guess, the suspense is killing me, I'm sure it's gonna be epic, though
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to film. 📚=🎞️ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess #booksky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →It was sheer coincidence that in 1970 Wendy Carlos (BOTD) and Rachel Elkind were working on the piece “Timesteps” - inspired by the novel A Clockwork Orange - when they learned that Stanley Kubrick was making the film. They sent him a recording. He immediately hired them to score the film. #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969) An experimental, taboo-shattering film about Tokyo’s gay and transgender clubland subcultures. Kubrick cited it as an influence on A Clockwork Orange.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have never really liked A Clockwork Orange mostly because I watched it in high school during a group hang and I was kind of thinking maybe I'd make out with my boyfriend for a bit but no our friend Dave had to bring *this* movie. What the fuck was that choice, Dave.
negative · AI labelView post →hello payment processor am I allowed to buy a bluray copy of the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange and can you please explain to me the difference between the actions depicted in this film, and the actions in the media that violates your policies.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm an MCU fan and my favorite film is A Clockwork Orange, which admittedly probably says somethings about me as a person. But I can like more than one thing. Hell this week I'm seeing Sinners and Thunderbolts* and I'll probably like both.
positive · AI labelView post →Just had to watch the AI Coke ad while seated for a movie. I’ve never related to the end of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE more.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieTrivia: Contrary to popular belief 1971's 'A Clockwork Orange' was never banned in the UK, Stanley Kubrick pulled the film from all distribution after a series of serious copycat crimes inspired by the film and death threats to his family, remaining unavailable until after his death in 1999.
neutral · AI labelView post →This weeks L4W The Vikings (1958) Nine to Five (1980) 3:10 to Yuma (1957) A Clockwork Orange (1971) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →John Harbaugh should do a Clockwork Orange with Jaxson Dart and force him to watch film of Drake Maye deftly avoiding brain rattling hits
neutral · AI labelView post →A Clockwork Orange (1971 720p?). A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)
neutral · AI labelView post →Wendy Carlos’ film score work is pretty impressive; She composed the score to two Stanley Kubrick films, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980), and for Tron (1982)…
neutral · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: Malcolm McDowell Happy Birthday, 6/13/1943. Such a force. Even when he's in shit, he'll sell it to you like it's gold! 1971 A Clockwork Orange 1973 O Lucky Man! 1979 Time After Time 1982 Cat People Honorable Mention: Film debut in If.... (1968). #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Great movie, but it should have been a red flag that he thought a screening of "A Clockwork Orange" at the local revival house was a good first date.
positive · AI labelView post →#TriviaTuesday: Contrary to popular belief, 1971's 'A Clockwork Orange' was never banned in the UK, Stanley Kubrick pulled the film from all distribution after a series of copycat crimes inspired by the film, and death threats to his family, remaining unavailable until after his death in 1999.
neutral · AI labelView post →Any fans of the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange?
neutral · AI labelView post →A Clockwork Orange is so good that if someone was like "show me 10 films to convince me of the necessity and importance of film as an art form" I wouldn't even hesitate to include it.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching IF.... (1969). Director: Lindsay Anderson. Malcolm McDowell, Christine Noonan. If McDowell's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE character disturbed you, his Mick Travis here is like a British boarding school version of Alex DeLarge! Rewatch. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 391
neutral · AI labelView post →remake of A Clockwork Orange where the lingo is updated to the present day (mogging, maxxing etc) Unbearable; no way you could endure the whole film
negative · AI labelView post →Since seeing A Clockwork Orange, McTiernan had wanted to use Beethoven’s Ode To Joy in the film. Composer Michael Kamen suggested another piece from A Clockwork Orange, Singin’ in the Rain. This is woven into the score and can be heard during the SWAT team’s attack. 22/43
neutral · AI labelView post →Irreversible, Se7en, Requiem For a Dream, Dancer in the Dark, Schindler’s List, The Pianist, No Other Land, Grave of the Fireflies, When the Wind Blows, A Clockwork Orange, The Mist, Oldboy, Come and See, Trainspotting, American History X, A Serbian Film…
neutral · AI labelView post →Historians are going to have to sit with the fact that the President of the United States enjoys watching, essentially, the brainwashing movie from A Clockwork Orange while sitting in the Oval Office and clapping like a seal.
neutral · AI labelView post →One Battle After Another appears to be PTA's second-ever movie set in the 21st century, which means PTA has now made the same number of movies set in the 21st century as Stanley Kubrick, depending on when you believe A Clockwork Orange is set.
neutral · AI labelView post →X on TV, it'll be like the film they strapped Alex down to watch in A Clockwork Orange
neutral · AI labelView post →"A Clockwork Orange", very '70's and very English, and not necessarily the good kind Only English can make a movie about a serial rapist and psycho murderer only to end by declaring "the conservative posh Nazi gov are the true evil"
negative · AI labelView post →Guy who's only ever seen the movie Crank watching A Clockwork Orange: "This is a real slow burn masterpiece."
positive · AI labelView post →I have a solution for this, and it involves MARTYRS and the movie watching chair from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
neutral · AI labelView post →(Currently at the theater to see a Hitchcock movie) Just heard a Gen Z-er say “movies that are uncomfortable to watch with people like A Clockwork Orange shouldn’t be shown in theaters” and please allow me to launch myself off the balcony of this theater.
positive · AI labelView post →A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ever read the book or see the movie A Clockwork Orange, kids? These fools need to be taped to a chair with they eyes glued open and forced to watch Schoolhouse Rock until they grasp basic civics.
positive · AI labelView post →#AprilFilmChallenge 10. A film you like with colour in the title. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Traumatising but an amazing movie.
positive · AI labelView post →www.deviantart.com/anntxiudood/... #lackadaisy #lackadaisyrocky Found this great art of Rocky as Alex from A Clockwork Orange! I’ve read both the book and the movie and both are a must read/watch! The movie especially. It’s a beautiful and disturbing look at society and morality.
positive · AI labelView post →One of the all-timers, Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE released OTD 12/19/1971. As you can see by my avatar, this one is special to me! #filmsky 🎞🎬📽🎥
positive · AI labelView post →Triumph of the Will, Christopher Nolan's Batman movies, Falling Down, Red Dawn, Ghostbusters, cold war thrillers, Reagan era action blockbusters, big government 70s dystopias like A Clockwork Orange. Apparently Yukio Mishima directed a film, so that would be worth considering.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film poster for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. #AClockworkOrange
neutral · AI labelView post →It was either this or A Clockwork Orange, and while that is the better film, it's such a complete bummer.
positive · AI labelView post →A Clockwork Orange and 1984 are the two most stark examples of the movie being better than the book that I can think of.
positive · AI labelView post →Wendy Carlos' (BOTD) score for Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) forever altered the landscape of film music. There had been electronic scores before, but none with the visceral power of Carlos' music. From the opening titles, it grabs you and never lets go. #filmsky #musicsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie. A Clockwork Orange (1971).
neutral · AI labelView post →Herman Makkink, Rocking Machine, 1970, film still from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange with paintings by Cornelius Makkink
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