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New Release: Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition' and 'Stanley Kubrick: Limited Edition Collection Blu-ray'

Due May 31

photo Warner Home Video will celebrate four decades of visionary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick with "A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition" on Blu-ray and "Stanley Kubrick: Limited Edition Collection" nine-film Blu-ray collection that includes Blu-ray debuts, premium packaging, new bonus features and a hard cover book.

Stanley Kubrick was one of the great filmmakers of our time and his profound influence on motion pictures continues to this day. His 1971 film, "A Clockwork Orange," starring Malcolm McDowell, portrayed an oppressive lawless society where man was reduced to little more than a machine. This was a powerful film made by a director at the height of his artistry and its impact generated worldwide controversy.

On May 31, Warner Home Video will honor Kubrick with "A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition" on Blu-ray ($34.99 SRP). The two-disc release includes two newly-produced bonus features:" Turning Like Clockwork," a 25 minute documentary about the film's "Ultra-violence" and its cultural impact, and a short documentary where Malcolm McDowell reminiscences on closely working with legendary director Stanley Kubrick. This two disc Edition will also include the feature-length documentaries: "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" and "O Lucky Malcolm!" The 40th Anniversary Edition will be packaged in a 40-page Blu-ray Book with rare photos, production notes and more.

A Clockwork Orange introduced into popular culture the concept of "ultra-violence," as singing-, tap-dancing-, derby-topped hooligan Alex (McDowell) has a "good time" -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. 40 years later, the world is a different place but the film's power still entices, shocks and mesmerizes today.

On the same day, continuing the celebration, WHV will release the "Stanley Kubrick: Limited Edition Collection on Blu-ray" ($148.95 SRP), a nine-film, 10-disc collection, which contains every film the director made since 1960. The collection features the film and bonus content from "A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition," the Blu-ray debuts of "Lolita" and "Barry Lyndon," as well as the feature films "Spartacus," "Dr. Strangelove," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "The Shining," "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut." The Blu-ray collection will be boxed in new book-style premium packaging and will include a 40-page hard-cover book that explores the breadth of genres and themes in Kubrick's work. The same group of films will be available on DVD in "Stanley Kubrick: The Essential Collection" ($74.92 SRP), which includes a 40-page soft-cover book.

photo About Stanley Kubrick:
Recognized as one of the most accomplished, innovative, and influential directors in film history, Stanley Kubrick was a perfectionist who maintained complete artistic control and privacy during the shooting, and even the subsequent marketing of his movies. Many of Kubrick's acclaimed works were received as controversial and provocative, yet still regarded as brilliant and visionary.

Kubrick was born on July 26, 1928 in New York City and grew up in the Bronx where his father was a physician. At the age of 13, Kubrick became interested in photography and began to self-teach himself the art of photography. Prior to graduating high school, Kubrick had sold two picture stories and a photograph of a news vendor noting in all of their headlines the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a sad image of him. Look selected the photograph for a series about FDR as the final picture of the series. Look shortly thereafter hired him as an apprentice photographer and within six months at age 17, he became one of their youngest-ever staff photographers.

After creating a photo story on boxer Walter Cartier for the magazine, Kubrick then directed an impressive, gritty short documentary film, "Day of the Fight" (1950), based on his pictorial titled "Prize Fighter."

"Paths of Glory" (1957), starring Kirk Douglas and set in World War I, was one of the most uncompromising anti-war films in movie history. Douglas subsequently hired Kubrick to direct "Spartacus" (1960), the most intelligent of the then "epic" films. It was the only film on which Kubrick did not have absolute control.

Kubrick immigrated to England in 1961, where he found more autonomy and greater control as a filmmaker. Stanley Kubrick died peacefully at his home in England Sunday, March 7, 1999.

A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition

(1971) Dir.: Stanley Kubrick; Malcolm McDowell . Two-disc release includes two newly-produced bonus features: "Turning Like Clockwork," a 25 minute documentary about the film's "Ultra-violence" and its cultural impact, and "Malcolm McDowell Looks Back," a short documentary where Malcolm McDowell reminiscences on closely working with legendary director Stanley Kubrick. Also includes the feature- length documentaries: "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" and "O Lucky Malcolm!" "Still Tickin': The Return of Clockwork Orange," "Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making A Clockwork Orange," commentary by Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman. Packaged in a 40-page Blu- ray Book with rare photos, production notes and more.

Stanley Kubrick: Limited Edition Collection

Nine-film, 10-disc collection contains every film the director made since 1960. The collection features the film and bonus content from "A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition," the Blu-ray debuts of "Lolita" and "Barry Lyndon," as well as "Spartacus," "Dr. Strangelove," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "The Shining," "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut." The Blu-ray collection will be elegantly boxed in new book-style premium packaging and will include a 40-page hard-cover book that explores the breadth of genres and themes in Kubrick's work. $148.95. Bonus features: "2001": Special Features: Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, documentary "2001: The Making of a Myth," "Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001," "Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001," "2001: A Space Odyssey -- A Look Behind the Future and What Is Out There?" "2001": FX and early conceptual artwork, "Look: Stanley Kubrick!" audio-only bonus: 1966 Kubrick interview conducted by Jeremy Bernstein. "The Shining": Commentary by Steadicam inventor/operator Garrett Brown and historian John Baxter, Vivian Kubrick's documentary "The Making of the Shining," "View from the Overlook: Crafting The Shining," "The Visions of Stanley Kubrick and Wendy Carlos, Composer." "Full Metal Jacket": Commentary by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and critic-screenwriter Jay Cocks; "Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil." "Eyes Wide Shut": Three-Part Documentary: "The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut," "Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick," interview gallery featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg, Kubrick's 1998 Directors Guild of America D.W. Griffith Award acceptance speech.



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