Friday, September 8, 2017

Movies for October 2017: Lolita and A Clockwork Orange

Jon L is hosting in October.

IMPORTANT: We are moving the date for this meeting back to Wednesday, October 11th. The meeting will be held at Carl's house due to Jon's remodeling work.

We will have a special guest for the next meeting, Mario Falsetto, PhD and Professor Emeritus in Film Studies at Concordia University (Montreal).

The movies to see are:

Lolita (1962)

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Vladimir Nabokov (screenplay and novel)
Stars: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Anthony Burgess (novel)
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates

Films of Merit