Summer of Kubrick 2016 – A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Screening

Brazos Bookstore presents the Summer of Kubrick 2016 – A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Screening. Presented as part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Restorations & Revivals film series.

Following his major success with 2001, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick adapted Anthony Burgess’s futuristic novel A Clockwork Orange, set in a London where gangs of teenage “droogs” commit acts of violence while an iron-fisted state exerts power.

When vicious yet charismatic droog Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) is sentenced to prison after committing murder, he becomes a guinea pig in an experimental aversion therapy designed to recondition him.

“As with nearly all of Kubrick’s work, outrage has given way to admiration, and A Clockwork Orange is now accepted as one of cinema’s definitive imaginings of a dystopian future. “ —Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque

Nothing says summer like sunshine, pools, lazy days, and…Stanley Kubrick? You know the films of Stanley Kubrick, but equally important are the books on which he based his masterworks. This summer, cinema and literature collide as we explore the legacy of the world’s most literary director.

The work of one of history’s greatest directors comes to Brazos Bookstore for Summer of Kubrick! This summer, through partnerships with Alamo Drafthouse, MFAH Films, and Rice Cinema, we will put film and literature in conversation as we explore Kubrick’s work.

Join us for parties, book groups, screenings, and—of course, as Kubrick would’ve wanted it—surprises.

Why Kubrick at a bookstore? Because Kubrick is the world’s most literary director. The absurd paranoia of DR. STRANGELOVE, the sci-fi intellectualism of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the frenzied dystopia of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the ambiguous horror of THE SHINING, the grunting military life of FULL METAL JACKET, the muted dreamscape of EYES WIDE SHUT: all of these familiar Kubrick worlds began as books by authors both popular and obscure, and we’ll read them, from Stephen King to Vladimir Nabokov.

So kick back with Stanley Kubrick and Brazos Bookstore for some reading and watching that’s pleasurable without making you turn off your brain.

Read about all the book groups, parties, and screenings we have planned here >>