A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Sundance, 7:30 p.m. ET
This disturbing, defiant, utterly brilliant 1971 Stanley Kubrick sci-fi film, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, is the work of art that made me want to become a critic. I was so thrown by this movie when it was released – rated X, initially, in a more conservative cultural climate – that I saw it many, many times in a single week, examining a different aspect of the movie each time. This was back in the pre-home video day when “binge viewing” meant returning, time and again, to the movie theater – but A Clockwork Orange was worth it. The music, the editing, the photography, the script, Malcolm McDowell’s star-making performance – all of it is utterly, disturbingly brilliant.