the book is unadaptable. proven twice now. this film is utter crap. Apr 22, 2021 This was one movie in which bad casting basically ruined what was otherwise a decent adaptation of Nabokov's controversial book. Sue Lyon is too old to play Lolita. She's blonde, aged sixteen and has almo...
He does the same thing in 'Damage' but in this case, it's very off-putting. It goes beyond the fear of discovery. While it may be more true to the intention, it makes it a harder thing to watch. I always wonder what the movie would be like from Lolita's point of view. By ...
The surprise of Lolita is how enjoyable it is: it’s the first new American comedy since those great days in the 1940’s when Preston Sturges recreated comedy with verbal slapstick. 1694465656000 FULL REVIEW Rob's Movie Vault Rob Gonsalves ...
The producer, James B. Harris, and Kubrick had acquired the rights of the novel in 1958 in the wake of their recent successes The Killing (1956) and Paths of Glory (1957). Asked to write an adaptation Nabokov delivered a script that would have led to a seven-hour film. He resumed wor...
(32). Or "`She is still shuttling,' said Miss Pratt, `... between the anal and the genital zones of development.'" (194). And then to remind us that this is a mere work of fiction. "If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces melt gently into my...
The great Stanley Kubrick was not entirely successful, and the hack Adrian Lyne probably shouldn't have tried. So it seems encouraging that Russia might attempt to reclaim a native son and one of the great Russian authors by doing their own adaptation of "Lolita". This movie unfortunately ...
Irons plays Humbert Humbert, the professor who can not control his physical desires for 12 year-old Dolores Haze (Swain) in yet another adaptation of Nabokov's classic novel.
These are some of the most classic lines from the novel "Lolita" and the movie adaptation. The novel is a controversial work by Vladimir Nabokov, telling the story of a middle-aged man, Humbert Humbert, who is infatuated with a young girl named Lolita. The novel explores the fine line be...
Lolita 2000: Directed by Cybil Richards. With Jacqueline Lovell, David Squires, Sky Nicholas, Robert John. Lolita 2000 is a modern adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel from exotic and sci-fi perspective.
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.