If you’re gonna watch this film, it’s highly recommended that you first watchKubrick’s version. This one follows the book closer – it’s the same story, but Adrian Lyne’sLolitaopts to heighten and detract different aspects. And so it feels like a satisfying second read of a book o...
so I think Lyne should have had a bit more fun with the script - not as much fun as Kubrick did with his version (which was unbearably silly), but lighten up just a bit. I cannot pinpoint any more negative aspects to 'Lolita' (1997), but I know there clearly are some because I...
—for the glamorous lodger to do what he was dying to do. A modern child, an avid reader of movie magazines, an expert in dream-slow close-ups, might not think it too strange, I guessed, if a handsome, intensely virile grown-up friend—too late. The house was suddenly vibrating with...
film. I love Kubrick's 1950s films like Paths of Glory or The Killing, so I was very excited to watch Lolita, and it did not disappoint. Lolita beautifully and subtly tells its story, full of amazing performances, well done dialogue, and great writing, making this an enthralling watch. ...