This is rather good: An Examination of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’, with Malcolm McDowell, looking like a beautiful fallen angel, and Anthony Burgess, looking like a slightly suspect Classics teacher, discussing A Clockwork Orange.

Made a year after the film’s release, this informal discussion avoids much of the controversy surrounding the film, focussing instead on the book’s genesis, its themes, the making of the film and McDowell’s experience of working with Kubrick. All jolly interesting stuff, but a few more probing, difficult questions would have been real horrorshow. That said, it’s an important historical and cultural record, and there’s also a brief section on the film’s music by Wendy Carlos, together with a fine selection of clips, which makes this well worth watching.
 

 
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This lovely synth/psych single from 1968 is a collaboration between former Left Banke, future Woodstock performer Bert Sommer, the then Walter (soon to be Wendy) Carlos and the band Childe Harold. Dig those signature Clockwork Orange pre-cursors ! This is nearly too good to be true. A really dark and woozy bad trip.
 

 
Hear the flip side after the jump…