"Would you like to work on a Stanley Kubrick project for the next 4 years?" Malcom is unique, for sure. Another forgotten favourite is "Time After Time". You see a completely side of Malcom. Stanley knew he had the right guy for "Clockwork".
It doesn't matter how many movies he made after that, Malcolm McDowell will always be remembered for Clockwork Orange. There is no question about that. But I will also remember him as Calígula, because that is a Very good movie, and he was amazing on it.
The Full Metal Jacket that I saw as a 19 year old Hospital Corpsman was different film from the Full Metal Jacket I saw as a 42 year old man. As a 42 year old man I came to the conclusion that Full Metal Jackets is a horror movie.
I haven't seen "2001" on Cinemascope yet, but I was lucky enough to see it in IMAX a few years ago, and they even had an intermission halfway through, and it made all the difference. That film was never designed to be seen on a TV or even a regular movie screen.
I cannot believe that Kubrick approved of the panning that was used in some of the dialogue scenes in the small format version. In the regular version, one would see both dialogue partners at the same time in one static shot, whereas in the TV version, the "camera" panned back and forth between the characters, and that's just on top of the huge difference the large size of a proper projection makes.
What a pleasure to see these three wonderful actors together talking about the greatest audio visual artist of the XX Century. There is always a special sensation when people gather to discuss Stanley Kubrick. What he accomplished is just unbelievable.
Kubrick’s producer told a friend of mine that using Anthony Michael Hall was abandoned when they realized how difficult casting the other roles with matching “teenagers” would be.
Man, that's Leon Vitale? The hell happened. Time can be cruel. Or he has been sick too perhaps? A clockwork Orange is an awesome film, and watching it for the first time was the best. I'd have to say Barry Lyndon is my favourite though.
yeah! I mean... shooting scenes with nothing but CANDLE LIGHT!!!!! That was a first and it looks just absolutely incredible. That film has the perfect and ultimate period piece look. No other film has ever come close to that again afterwards.
Was astonished to find out it didn't do well commercially in the US and UK, even though it's such a brilliant film!! Luckily it's garnered appreciation decades later.....I can only imagine how amazing Kubrick's Napoleon epic would've been.
I first watched Barry Lyndon at the cinema in 1976. It was my first date with a girl from school, so I didn’t give it the attention it deserved. I’m not sure it would have been my ideal choice at the time, for a first date, but that’s what was showing that week, and I just wanted to make the date happen before she changed her mind! The relationship didn’t last too long, and a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. I got married eventually and had raised a family, as did she I believe. Over the years since, I developed quite a fascination with the Napoleonic era, have read various biographies of Napoleon and Wellington, and have studied the Waterloo campaign in detail. I’ve also delved deeply into Irish history, inspired by my own ancestry and heritage, and I’ve come to be highly appreciative of historical authenticity (and highly critical when there’s a lack of it) when watching period movies. So now, looking back on Barry Lyndon, I finally have a true appreciation of the movie and its attention to the finest detail, which went completely over my head all those years ago. I’ve replayed many of the scenes online, but haven’t yet got around to watching it again in full from start to finish. I will certainly be doing so in the very near future.
I like Barry Lyndon, and I'm sure that I will like it even more as I grow older, but I can't imagine that that will make me like the masterpiece that is A Clockwork Orange less. I don't think that I will ever "grow out" of that movie.
Both were great films but I agree that A Clockwork Orange is in a totally different category of movie..it's so different from any other film before or since. High art, crime and science fiction mixed into one. Amazing!
But that was the thing about Kubrick - while there were some similarities of technique and, perhaps, "attitude", every Kubrick movie was different and unique.
So sad that Malcolm was traumatized by A Clockwork Orange. He worked with a giant at such a young age.. it tainted his work with future directors. :(....... Malcolm is the man.
He wasn't traumatized, but he did get a nasty eye scratch. It's such Hollywood Legend that Kubrick traumatized his actors, it's just not true. He frustrated them many times, but no trauma. This comes from the fact that he was pretty private and very demanding, but mainly because he put out a short making of The Shining in which he came across as temperamental and also as borderline abusive to Shelley Duvall. However, this goes against every thing ever said about him, and every other piece of footage we have of him. He was very patient and levelheaded, and people would rarely see him lose his cool, even in incredibly stressful and financially pressing situations. Also. he'd go through tons of takes with an actor, but he'd never be the one to flip out. I don't know what his intentions were with that making of The Shining, but it's safe to say he was putting on a bit of an act for the camera, which only covered a tiny fraction of the behind-the-scenes behavior. Duvall's unfortunate issues with mental health later in life are not because of Kubrick, as people often think. In fact examples people give of horrible things she endured are mainly things seen in the Making Of. She had a long and happy career after that and stated she'd absolutely do The Shining all over again and even said in 2021 that Kubrick was actually "very warm and friendly" to her.
I saw the original release of 2001 in 1968 and was mesmerized. I couldn't understand the bad reviews it got. Of course, as time passed, people realized what Kubrick had accomplished with the film.
I remember Malcolm saying in an interview he felt abandoned by Kubrick. He thought they were friends, playing chess and all. But after A Clockwork Orange was finished, he never contacted him again.
i only saw 2001 about 5 years ago and was blown away, but i must admit if i had seen as younger man in 1968 i would have thought it was way drawn out and boring
Dizzy Blu I love Malcolm McDowell, but having seen this after watching Filmworker, it’s very off-putting to see him talking about Kubrick as if he knows just as much if not more than Vitali. And then O’Neal just flat out cuts him off. It’s like if Leon Vitali starred in one of Lindsay Anderson’s most popular films, and during an interview about him he boasts his knowledge as if he knows just as much as McDowell.
I was thinking the same. I was like: let Leon talk!! That guy knows more about Kubrick than anybody else in the room. Great interview anyway. I had never seen Leon Vitali and Ryan O'Neal interviewed together and it's a bit weird since I had always seen them (many times being my favorite movie) as the characters in Barry Lyndon hating each others so badly.
Stanley has been elevated to this mythic "Cinema God". Much of it is totally unwarranted. Not to say he's not a fabulous filmmaker. But his daughter broke it all down when she said.. "He's just a guy who loved movies and wanted to make them. Nothing more than that"
another distorted / clickbait title . Not at all about Malcolm reflecting about working with. why not title it correctly: Reflections on film music, marketing, and why Anthony Michael Hall wasn't cast in Kubrick film
About the red color which appears to be dominating these older actors: I guess it's the studio lighting. Television is a rather old technology (from as early as pre-WW2) which needs a great amount of light. I guess at their age they couldn't bother wearing too much make-up (white powder) for the interview.
"Ryan O'Neal looks like they picked him up on Skid-Row." And the other two don't? The other two look worse than he does, especially the bum in the middle with a sock or whatever that is on his head. McDowell didn't even bother to shave or comb his hair; at least O'Neal did that much.
ArseneWenger Leon Vitali also played Lord Bullingdon on Barry Lyndon, then became Kubrick’s personal assistant. If you watch the 30 minute documentary about filming The Shining, you can see him running around chaperoning little Danny Lloyd, the boy who played Danny in the film.
Jonathan Melia Leon Vitali is the "fashion director" who's suspect in the "drug overdose" of the mysterious redhead in the newspaper article in Eyes Wide Shut. Noticed this the other day, Kubrick likes to name drop little details like that :) Also got me wondering if that was red cloaked leader of the sex cult.
The first time I saw Barry Lyndon I remember thinking that casting Ryan O'Neal was Kubrick's greatest mistake. He just didn't fit in with any of the actors or even the period itself. Like the whole movie was over his head. After a few more viewings (spanning decades) I see him as a perfectly cast outsider among cold-blooded freaks. I still haven't come around to Eyes Wide Shut though. The more times I see that one, the more I dislike it.
Ryan stopped caring about his looks years before this interview. If you've ever heard any of his children speak about him, it sounds like he was not the most supportive dad, even though he paid for everything in their lives. But sometimes money isn't enough to buy real loyalty or affection, especially from your kids. I've been down that road myself, so I can't honestly judge the man. I'm just another poor sinner like him, and the beat goes on. Clockwork was such a strange movie, but so powerful. And 2001 is a top-10 masterpiece visually, although the best part may be our ape ancestors at the beginning! Explains a lot about how we are even now!!
More like played with paid, he did got death treaths because of the movei but his death has nothing to do with the movie, he died natural death decades after he made the movie.
Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton, Shelley Winters, James Mason, Peters Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones, Malcolm McDowell, Ryan O'Neill, Jack Nicholson, Joe Turkel, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Nicole Kidman - all noted terrible bad actors.
@@jkorshak “Things are seldom what they seem…Skim milk masquerades as cream; Highlows pass as patent leathers; Jackdaws strut in peacock’s feathers…Black sheep dwell in every fold; All that glitters is not gold; Storks turn out to be but logs; Bulls are but inflated frogs."
