Lolita (1962) [Import]

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
UPC: 00012569554122

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When director Stanley Kubrick released his film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel about a hopelessly pathetic middle-aged professor's sexual obsession with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, the ads read, "How did they ever make a film of Lolita? " The answer is "they" didn't. As he did with his "adaptations" of Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, and, especially, The Shining, Kubrick used the source material and, simply put, made another Stanley Kubrick movie--even though Nabokov himself wrote the screenplay. The chilly director nullifies Humbert Humbert's (James Mason's) overwhelming passion and desire, and instead transforms the story, like many of his films, into that of a man trapped and ruined by social codes and by his own obsessions. Kubrick doesn't play this as tragedy, however, but rather as both a black-as-coffee screwball comedy and a meandering, episodic road movie. The early scenes between Humbert, Lolita (a too-old but suitably teasing Lyons) and her loud, garish mother (Shelley Winters in one of her funniest performances) play like a wonderful farce. When Humbert finally fulfills his desires and captures Lolita, the pair hit the road and Kubrick drags in Peter Sellers. As the pedophilic writer Clare Quilty--Humbert's playful doppelgänger and biggest threat--Sellers dons a series of disguises with plans of stealing Lolita away from her captor. It's here more than anywhere that Kubrick comes closest to the novel. He extends Nabokov's idea of the games and puzzles played between reader and writer, Quilty and Humbert, Lolita and Humbert, etc. , to those between filmmaker and audience: the road eventually goes nowhere and Humbert's reality is exposed as mad delusion. Perhaps not a Kubrick masterpiece, or the provocative film many wanted, Lolita still remains playfully fascinating and one of Kubrick's strongest, funniest character studies. --Dave McCoy Binding DVD. Publisher(s): Warner Home Video. Label: Warner Home Video. AudienceRating: NR (Not Rated). Format: Black & White. AspectRatio: 1.66:1. When director Stanley Kubrick released his film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel about a hopelessly pathetic middle-aged professor's sexual obsession with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, the ads read, "How did they ever make a film of Lolita? " The answer is "they" didn't. As he... MORE...

Manufacturer:	Warner Home Video
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Lowest Price (CAD):	$46.50
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Actors :	Diana Decker - Gary Cockrell - James Mason - Jerry Stovin - Shelley Winters - Sue Lyon -
Brand :	Warner Home Video
Closed Captioned :	Yes
Collector's Edition :	No
Director :	Stanley Kubrick
Director's Cut :	No
Distributor :	Warner Home Video
Film Rating :	NR (Not Rated)
Format :	DVD
Language :	English
Movie Aspect Ratio :	Full Screen
Number of Discs :	One
Original Release Date :	1962
Release Date :	June 2003
Starring :	James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
Title :	Title J-M
Unedited Version :	No

Lolita (1962) [Import]

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