Can we count 1969 as being part of the 1970s? That is the year Midnight Cowboy came out, number forty-three on the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest American Films of… Read more “Midnight Cowboy, by Albert W. Vogt III”
Tag: A Clockwork Orange
Pulp Fiction, by Albert W. Vogt III
People love Pulp Fiction (1994), including the American Film Institute (AFI). They have it as the ninety-fourth greatest American film of all time on its list of the top 100. At… Read more “Pulp Fiction, by Albert W. Vogt III”
Full Metal Jacket, by Albert W. Vogt III
The only Stanley Kubrick films I reviewed are A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980). If you are at all familiar with these films, you will understand the tone of most… Read more “Full Metal Jacket, by Albert W. Vogt III”
The Shining, by Albert W. Vogt III
Not all of Stanley Kubrick’s films are as bad as A Clockwork Orange (1971), or as taboo as Lolita (1962). The majority of them are, though, twisted. Even in movies as seemingly innocuous… Read more “The Shining, by Albert W. Vogt III”
A Clockwork Orange, by Albert W. Vogt III
When researching my doctoral dissertation, The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928-1973(2013), my quest for information brought me to Georgetown University. In the special collections department of… Read more “A Clockwork Orange, by Albert W. Vogt III”