The Talk Show: Live From WWDC
7:00pm Tuesday  •  California Theatre
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‘I Don’t Really Know How to Write This Letter’

Letters of Note:

After adapting Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange for the big screen, Kubrick brought Burgess on-board to write a Beethoven-inspired Napoleon novel on which his epic could be based.

In June of 1972, Burgess supplied the filmmaker with the first half of his manuscript; Kubrick rejected it by way of the following letter, thus ending the collaboration.

★ Wednesday, 20 February 2013