A Clockwork Orange

In A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell is Little Alex, who, with his droogs at the Karvoa Milk Bar, has visions of ''the old in-out'' and ''ultraviolence'' buzzing in his head like the tunes of his favorite composer, ''Ludwig van.'' Alex's rebellion is total until society reconditions his and turns him into a soulless conformist. Stanley Kubrick's ''horrorshow'' adaptation of Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel has a wild, cartoonish energy, ripe color design, and a nasty attitude that predated punk by half a decade. A-