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ArtsEtc: Film - Artifice, yes. Intelligence, no A.I. Steven Spielberg 146 MINS, 12 The Circle Jafar Panahi 91 MINS, PG
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There are major films, and there are important films, and then
there are films which arrive laden with such numinous cultural
prestige that mere blockbusters can't compete. Such a film, I
suppose, is A.I. Artificial Intelligence, no ordinary release but one
of those unthinkable "Imagine if ..." scenarios. Imagine if Kubrick
started a film and Steven Spielberg finished it off. What actually
happened was that Kubrick spent some 20 years exploring an idea based
on a Brian Aldiss short story, the...
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The shock of the Droog It's even more potent today than it was 28 years ago. Blake Morrison on the return of `A Clockwork Orange'
The Independent - London
; My local video store used to display a small notice behind the counter, giving an address in The Netherlands from which copies of A Clockwork Orange could be ordered. At some point in the 1990s, I sent off a cheque, received a brown-paper package by return, and watched the film, albeit with Dutch
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Kubrick's `Clockwork Orange' will be re-released uncut after 27 years
The Independent - London
; STANLEY KUBRICK'S film A Clockwork Orange has been granted an 18- certificate and will remain uncut when it is shown legally in this country for the first time in 27 years, it was announced yesterday. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has decided that the film, which depicts violent
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Twenty-year ban of Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' continues in Britain. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; LONDON _ Case One: A movie theater employee is hauled into court and slapped with a fine for showing a film that has been banned in her country since 1973. Under oath, one of her colleagues admits, ``We all knew it wasn't supposed to be shown. Anyone who worked in the film business knew that Case
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Clockwork Orange returns But will Kubrick's stylistic violence appeal to a modern audience?
Evening Standard - London
; THE hour has struck again for A Clockwork Orange. Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 film is to be re-released after a 30- year absence from British cinema screens. It will probably be premiered in March next year at the first anniversary of Kubrick's death. The director withdrew it peremptorily
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The future's bright, the future's Orange; FILM On its reissue Mike Davies rewinds the clock to discover why a controversial but influential Stanley Kubrick film caused such fury.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; ... everyone felt the film was dragging society into the depths. One article in its defence came, surprisingly, from The Catholic News, which observed that 'the film seems to say that to take away a man's choice is not to redeem him but merely to restrain him ...
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