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CapFilm: A Clockwork Orange 55th Anniversary

at Appell Center for the Performing Arts

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Downtown York's grandest room isn't one room — it's two. The Appell Center runs the 1,262-seat Strand and the more intimate 450-seat Capitol, a pair of restored 1920s movie palaces on North George Street that have been the city's big stage for a century (the Strand just hit its 100th birthday this season). One night it's a national touring act or a comedian, the next it's the York Symphony or a classic on the big screen through the CapFilm series. It's the kind of place with real history in the walls — it reopened in 1980 with Ella Fitzgerald on the bill and hasn't stopped booking since. Grab tickets, dress up a little if you feel like it, and remember that a proper night out doesn't always start at a bar. Sometimes the best seat in York has a curtain in front of it.

September 27, 2026

One-time

When

3:00 PM – 5:16 PM

Where

Appell Center for the Performing Arts

Fifty-five years after it first shocked audiences, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange still hasn't lost its edge — and CapFilm brings it to the big screen at the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, September 27 at 3:00 PM. Malcolm McDowell's Alex, a violent young criminal navigating a dystopian near-future, spends the film's first half in gleeful chaos before enduring a brutal aversion-therapy rehabilitation that mirrors the violence he inflicted. It's dense, disturbing, and unmistakably one of cinema's most influential works — the kind of film that rewards seeing on a real screen, in a real theater, rather than a laptop. The Capitol has been showing films on North George Street since the silent era, and a 55th-anniversary Kubrick screening keeps that tradition sharp. Rated R, 2 hours 16 minutes. All tickets $8.

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