Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel follows Alex DeLarge, a charismatic teenage delinquent subjected to state-mandated aversion therapy. Stylised, unsettling, and formally exacting, it interrogates free will, coercion, and the aestheticisation of power through John Alcott’s cinematography, Wendy Carlos’s electronic score, and Malcolm McDowell’s indelible performance.
Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 adaptation of Thackeray’s novel follows an Irish opportunist’s calculated ascent and collapse in 18th-century Europe. Shot in candlelight, built around painterly compositions and governed by an impassive narrator, it treats social hierarchy as an inescapable physical law — not a theme to explore, but a structure to inhabit.
Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's novel follows a recovering alcoholic, his wife and their clairvoyant son through a winter at an isolated hotel, shot entirely on constructed sets in England on a $19 million budget, built around Jack Nicholson's escalating performance, John Alcott's Steadicam corridors and Wendy Carlos's electronic score.