Lolita
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 23, 2007
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters, James Mason & Sue Lyon | |
Performer: | Jerry Stovin, Gary Cockrell, Diana Decker, Marianne Stone, William E. Greene, Shirley Douglas & Lois Maxwell | |
Directed by | Stanley Kubrick | |
Edited by | Anthony Harvey | |
Screenwriting by | James B. Harris & Stanley Kubrick | |
Composition by | Nelson Riddle | |
Art Direction by | Bill Andrews | |
Produced by | James B. Harris | |
Director of Photography: | Oswald Morris |
Entertainment Reviews:
Lolita, with its acute mix of pathos and comedy, and Mason's mellifluous delivery of Nabokov's sparkling lines, remains the definitive depiction of tragic transgression.
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Film4
Rating: 4/5 --
The picture has a rare power, a garbled but often moving push toward an off-beat communication.
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New York Times
Rating: 1/4 --
An epically misbegotten, misguided adaptation...
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Reel Film Reviews
Lolita is a disappointment because we have a right to expect more from Kubrick (he may come through with his next, which I am told is to be a satirical treatment of the nuclear "defense" problem).
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Esquire Magazine
[A] deadpan lead Sue Lyon plays amusingly off the typically intense vocal cadences of James Mason, who is in top form.
USA Today
Rating: B- --
Far too subtle in its sexual intentions to reach what the novel was after.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3.5/5 --
"How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?" With great difficulty!
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Product Description:
Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire, he is immediately set upon by his landlady, Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters), and her adolescent daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon). Although Humbert gets involved with Charlotte, it is Lolita with whom he becomes obsessed. When Charlotte sends her daughter away to summer camp (the aptly named Camp Climax), Humbert becomes consumed with jealousy. He finally takes Lolita out of camp and heads out alone with her. He is pestered along the way by Clare Quilty (played magnificently by Peter Sellers), who threatens to expose him. But nothing can break the hold Lolita has over Humbert.
From the opening credits sequence--a close-up of a man's hand (with a wedding ring) carefully polishing a young girl's toenails--Kubrick's biting, darkly comic LOLITA burns with sexual energy as it follows the debasement of an intelligent, worldly man in a series of carefully choreographed long takes that boil over with psychosexual tension. Although little physical contact is shown, Kubrick hints at it beautifully, especially in the drive-in scene in which both Charlotte and Lolita grab on to Humbert's hands. And yet given the serious nature of the subject matter, Kubrick pauses long enough to include a riotous slapstick scene of Humbert and a bellhop struggling over a cot as Lolita sleeps quietly on the bed, as well as Quilty playing Ping-Pong with a seemingly endless supply of balls. Stanley Kubrick's highly controversial masterwork is a fascinating look at pedophilia and sexual taboos that lead to obsession and murder.
From the opening credits sequence--a close-up of a man's hand (with a wedding ring) carefully polishing a young girl's toenails--Kubrick's biting, darkly comic LOLITA burns with sexual energy as it follows the debasement of an intelligent, worldly man in a series of carefully choreographed long takes that boil over with psychosexual tension. Although little physical contact is shown, Kubrick hints at it beautifully, especially in the drive-in scene in which both Charlotte and Lolita grab on to Humbert's hands. And yet given the serious nature of the subject matter, Kubrick pauses long enough to include a riotous slapstick scene of Humbert and a bellhop struggling over a cot as Lolita sleeps quietly on the bed, as well as Quilty playing Ping-Pong with a seemingly endless supply of balls. Stanley Kubrick's highly controversial masterwork is a fascinating look at pedophilia and sexual taboos that lead to obsession and murder.
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