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Clockwork Orange | 1971 | R1982 | US One Sheet
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Clockwork Orange | 1971 | R1982 | US One Sheet

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel, A Clockwork Orange. 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. The storyline is set in a near-futuristic society, late teen Alex DeLarge is the leader of a gang of thugs - his "droogs" - who commit acts of ultra-violence, often with sexual components, without any regard for their victims, and purely because it strikes their collective fancies. These acts are largely fuelled by drug use. Alex is a lover of music, especially that of Ludwig van Beethoven, which, when he listens to it during these acts, intensifies his...
The Shining | 1980 | BFI R2012 | UK Quad
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The Shining | 1980 | BFI R2012 | UK Quad

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film by Stanley Kubrick and is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel of the same name. Stanley Kubrick directed and produced the film along with co-wroting the screenplay with novelist Diane Johnson. The Shining stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd. The storyline centres around Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. Wintering over with Jack are his wife, Wendy Torrance and young son, Danny Torrance. Danny possesses "the shining", psychic abilities that enable him to see into the hotel's horrific past. The hotel cook, Dick Hallorann, also has this ability and is able to communicate...