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all things malcolm mcdowell ♡ none of my posts belong to me unless said otherwise.

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Tank Girl Directed by Rachel Talalay (1995)

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malcolm mcdowell and lynne frederick on the set of voyage of the damned (1976).

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i wish a performance of entertaining mr. sloane had been recorded. would be an interesting performance to see

me too! it’d be so cool to see

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malcolm mcdowell in entertaining mr. sloane, 1975. [SOURCE]

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O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson) (1973)

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malcolm mcdowell photographed at cannes film festival, may 1973.

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happy friday

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yaaay! happy birthday, blog ^^

woohoo! 🥳

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Lots of *hugs* to you!

sending hugs back to you! ♡

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malcolm mcdowell photographed by angelo deligio at cannes film festival, may 1973.

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it has officially been one year since i started this blog! thank you all so much for continuing to support my tumblr page, even despite my recent inactivity.

with that being said, i apologize for the lack of consistent new posts in the past couple months or so. a lot has happened in my personal life and i’ve somewhat distanced myself from social media as a result. but now that everything is finally settling down, i’m going to be much more active on here again.

i hope you’re all doing well and staying safe in the middle of this pandemic. <3

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Nancy Allen + Malcolm McDowell in “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die” (Bill Condon, 1995)

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malcolm mcdowell in cat people (1982).

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foreign lobby card set for A Clockwork Orange (1971)

A Clockwork Orange is the second film by Stanley Kubrick in the top 133, after 2001:  A Space Odyssey.

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Malcolm McDowell (If…, 1968)

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MALCOLM MCDOWELL › A Clockwork Orange (1971) dir. Stanley Kubrick

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Malcolm McDowell turns 77 today. A few films from a slightly unnerving career:

 Mick Travis in “If….” D: Lindsay Anderson (1968).  The horrors of an English boys boarding school. The first Cannes Palme d’Or winner to be rated X for nudity, upperclassmen violence, and because McDowell’s rebel hero ends the movie by shooting up the school on Founders Day. A star is born.

Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange. D: Stanley Kubrick (1971). A futuristic thug after several sprees of “the old ultraviolence” (brutal beatings, rape, murder) is given a behavioral conditioning treatment that makes him incapable of antisocial behavior – and Beethoven. Which leads to the question, which is worse, instinctive brutality or social negation of free will? McDowell was charismatic enough to make the loaded question harder than you’d think and his narration (in Nadsat, a slang invented by author Anthony Burgess) is one of the best voiceovers in film history. 

H. G. Wells in Time After Time D: Nicholas Meyer (1979). A nice conceit – H.G. Wells actually invented a time machine which was stolen by Jack the Ripper and taken to 1979’s San Francisco fuels a  thriller-comedy movie about dislocation. Wells, expecting a socialist utopia, encounters…us. And we see the psychotic antihero as a born romantic.