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Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick


  • Country: UK/USA
  • Year: 1971
  • Language: English
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  • Runtime: 136 min.

Stanley Kubrick's controversial adaptation of Anthony Burgess' novel takes place in a simultaneously authoritarian and decadent near-future London where gangs of teenage "droogs" rob, rape and kill with abandon while an iron-fisted state practices its own form of violence through regimentation and brainwashing.

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screening times

    • Friday October 29
    • 9:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3
    • Sunday November 21
    • 9:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

Stanley Kubrick's controversial adaptation of Anthony Burgess' novel takes place in a simultaneously authoritarian and decadent near-future London where gangs of teenage "droogs" rob, rape and kill with abandon while an iron-fisted state practices its own form of violence through regimentation and brainwashing. When erudite and vicious head droog Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is sentenced to prison after one of his "games" goes a little too far, he becomes a guinea pig in an experiment designed to purge him of his violent impulses. "Cured" and released, he soon finds that the "normal" society he returns to can be even more cruel and sadistic than his own anarchic rampages. With John Barry's astonishing production design and John Alcott's diamond-sharp cinematography perfectly complementing Kubrick's icily sardonic vision, A Clockwork Orange is one of the cinema’s definitive imaginings of a dystopian future.

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