Lolita: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell. A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
"How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?" With great difficulty! 1502838153000 FULL REVIEW Common Sense Media David Gurney Classic love story not for kids. 1565481090000 FULL REVIEW City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Rob Nelson While Kubrick may have likened himself to an ad-libbing thief of...
Full page view An item in the 24 Aug 1962LATrevealed that producerJames B. Harrisand directorStanley Kubrickformed their business partnership while serving in the US Army during World War II. On 27 Apr 1960,Varreported “Production Code Administrator” Geoffrey Shurlock’s relief over the lack...
Essentially, Kubrick uses Nabokov’s story, and sexual fixation in general, for a meditation on people driven mad by what they can’t have; the movie is funny, but there’s also considerable pain in it — perhaps Kubrick’s last film to be truly emotionally accessible. TEXTBOOK KUBRICK ...
Movie rating 12345678910 7.4 454 ratings. 90% popularity 22 collections 73 fans (1962) Screenshots fromLolita Blu-ray Humbert Humbert is a fastidious, middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding ...
Director: Stanley Kubrick Writers: Vladimir Nabokov, Stanley Kubrick Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell, Jerry Stovin, Diana Decker Producer: James B. Harris » See full cast & crew Similar titles you might also like What is this? Show more titles » ...
As the original trailer campaign blurted to audiences, ‘They made a movie of Lolita?’ Indeed, they did! In 1962. With the author writing the script to preserve the novel’s integrity. Well, sort of. Lolita’s age was bumped up to 14, and Kubrick rewrote Nabokov’s script to the po...
Even the poster and tagline of Kubrick’s 1962 film assume the audience’s familiarity with the novel, teasing, “How did they ever make a movie ofLolita?”Lolitais famously considered unfilmable—but not for the scandalous reasons the tagline suggests. This is because the book is so dependent...
The saintly Cardinal Hume will not need to explain why Catholics may admire the Sistine Chapel without worrying about what Michelangelo got up to in his off-duty hours.But Lolita the movie is not so safe. There are cries for it to be banned even though it is a worthy remake of the ...
Jan 01, 1998 Jan 14, 1998 All release dates Box office$1,071,255 CountryUS LanguageEnglish Runtime137 min RatedR Technical details1.85:1 Become a fan Movie plot tags Forbidden love Sexuality Tragedy User voted plot tags Humbert Humbert is a remarkable man with a poisonous wound: the indelibl...