LGTTM – ‘A CLOCKWORK ORANGE’ (1971)

LGTTM – ‘A CLOCKWORK ORANGE’ (1971)

November 6, 2022 Alan Royle 1

  A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)              Stanley Kubrick directed only sixteen movies in his lifetime. I unreservedly admired two of them – Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960), the rest I could take or leave. I remain at a loss, however, to understand the […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT62

RANDOM QUOTES – PT62

August 4, 2022 Alan Royle 2

  MALCOLM MCDOWELL (1943 – )                     ‘The best thing I did was abuse myself when younger – I dabbled in everything, cocaine, booze, women – because now I don’t have to do it anymore.’ ‘I did a picture I loved called Time After Time (1979), and the people who saw […]

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT13.

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT13.

August 25, 2020 Alan Royle 0

The comic science fiction feature Mars Attacks! (1996), was based on the cult trading card series of the same name. Initially budgeted at $60 million, the film eventually cost $80 million to make once Warner Bros. added another $20 million for marketing. It returned $101 million, a disappointing return affected […]

The making of ‘Caligula’ (1979)

March 12, 2017 Alan Royle 5

  Legendary movie critic Roger Ebert went along to see and review Caligula and did something he admitted he rarely ever did. He walked out of the theatre part-way through the showing. It was during the Brothel-Boat-orgy sequence, which he described as ‘sickening, utterly worthless, shameless trash.’ He went on […]

Actors marrying other actors – Pt 18

November 24, 2016 Alan Royle 2

             Arlene DAHL                                    Lex BARKER                        (1951 – 52)    divorced                                                                Fernando LAMAS                (1954 – […]

Did you know? Points of Interest Pt. 14

October 12, 2015 admin 0

  Whenever Don’t Look Now (1973) is mentioned, the talk, sooner or later, turns to the controversy surrounding the four minute sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. For some reason scores of commentators insist that the scene was not simulated, that the actors really had sex on the set. Despite […]