The family tragedy that inspired Anthony Burgess to write 1962’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’
“However we pretend that life is all roses and honey, it can be pretty evil on occasions.”
A Clockwork Orange
The 19th-century track Cat Stevens called the greatest: “Number one pop song of all time”
“One perfect pop song.”
The movie masterpiece Roger Ebert called a “sadistic” bore: “Long, weary, and pointless”
He’s in the minority.
10 great movies that Roger Ebert hated with a passion: “I wanted to throw up”
Ebert wasn’t always right.
Stanley Kubrick’s favourite part of filmmaking: “It shares no connection with any other art form”
“I cut everything to the bone”.
Why Malcolm McDowell refuses to call Stanley Kubrick a genius: “Extraordinary, yes”
“What was he like as a human being?”