{"id":668,"date":"2012-06-01T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=668"},"modified":"2012-06-01T11:32:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:32:28","slug":"i-take-on-a-clockwork-orange-on-the-auteurcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"I take on A Clockwork Orange on The Auteurcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Rudie Obias <\/a>and West Anthony<\/a> invited me on their podcast The Auteurcast<\/em><\/a>, a show which picks out fascinating directors and discusses all their films one-by-one. I joined them during a Stanley Kubrick cycle. They would have had no way of knowing this \u2014 except due to sheer film-geek likelihood \u2014 but Kubrick counts among the first three or four directors I actually recognized as directors. (Now that I think about it, “directors you actually recognize as directors,” makes for as concisely accurate a definition of “auteur” as I’ve heard.) Going to screening after screening of Dr. Strangelove <\/em>with my dad no doubt encouraged that.<\/p>\n

But I didn’t discuss Dr. Strangelove<\/em>, my most-viewed Kubrick film, with Rudie and West. Nor did we discuss Barry Lyndon<\/em>, the Kubrick film I think about most often these days. We discussed A Clockwork Orange<\/em>, of which I just so happened to catch a screening with Malcolm McDowell in attendance. (To name just one of the reasons I moved to Los Angeles.) We got into the distance between the film’s reality and that of 1960s England and the surprisingly enduring impact of non-explicit violence. You can listen to the show here<\/a>. I remember taking a girlfriend, at age fifteen, to a double-bill of A Clockwork Orange<\/em> and The Shining<\/em> at Seattle’s Varsity Theater. I wonder where she is now. Well, not really.<\/p>\n

Other recent press and guest appearances:<\/p>\n