Lolita has everything it needed to be as brilliant and beautiful as the novel, except great direction. Vladimir Nabokov’s screenplay is a model of adaptation—resourceful, economical, light-bodied.
The most evocative aural and visual descriptions in Lolita are in the manner of classic Forties films noirs, with their oppressive rain-washed nightscapes and their desperate, driven men—seemingly decent people who have irreparably committed themselves to their dreams, passions, or obsessions, and are suddenly crimina
Although passed without cuts, Lolita was rated “X” by the British Board of Film Censors when released in 1962, meaning no one under 16 years of age was permitted to watch.
by Dwight Macdonald Lolita is a good movie which might have been much better. For the title role, Stanley Kubrick
Lolita is a film that runs steadily downhill at too slow a pace for a needless two and a half hours.
The Five-O Interview James B. Harris: When Kubrick and I finished Paths Of Glory, Marlon Brando called us up and
This article presents a case study of the filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, considering how his films can be considered an emotional response to the Holocaust, the legacy of European anti-ÂSemitism, and stereotypes of the Jewish American woman.
Che Kubrick conoscesse Freud è fuor di dubbio; lo si ricava da tutta la sua opera, ma basterebbe anche solo quell’accenno al Perturbante che il regista lascia cadere nell’intervista con Michel Ciment, a proposito del film The Shining: «Nel suo scritto sul perturbante Freud affermò che il perÂturbante costituisce l’unica sensazione che si provi con maggior forza sia nell’arte che nella vita»
Che Kubrick punti molto di più sull’ossessione in sé che sul suo oggetto (Lolita), è dimostrato già dal principale spostamento operato rispetto al romanzo: l’insediamento all’inizio della sequenza dell’uccisione di Quilty, che vedremo ripetuta in coda (come è nel romanzo).
The base of Kubrick’s fiction is pure abstraction, back-projection or studio mock-up, and the only reality is invested in the comedy-drama of the characters. His Lolita is a film of ‘solid’ performances – high-key lighting and unstressed direction indeed – particularly in the first half, chez Charlotte Haze, where in long, placid takes the camera observes Humbert’s efforts to avoid Charlotte’s mating dance while guiltily courting Lolita.
Sue Lyon makes Lolita a mirror of the popular culture and as alarming a harbinger of Western civilization’s imminent collapse as I can remember.
Lolita’s path from novel to the Stanley Kubrick’s and Adrian Lyne’s film adaptations. Essay by Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Le riedizioni di Lolita e di Arancia Meccanica: il cinema come “magnifica ossessione”, la componente ludica della violenza in una messa in scena “assoluta” delle nostre pulsioni e illusioni culturali.
See the film twice within the space of five days: the test is severe, especially when the original from which the piece is drawn is already familiar…
Il film “Lolita” di Stanley Kubrick recensito da Giovanni Grazzini per il Corriere della Sera nel 1962
Pauline Kael’s review of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita is one of her best—inspired, incisive, exuberant
Prefazione di Vladimir Nabokov alla pubblicazione italiana della sceneggiatura che ha scritto adattando il suo romanzo. Kubrick utilizzerà ben poco di questa versione ma lascerà ugualmente a Nabokov il credit di unico autore dello script
Wind up the Lolita doll and it goes to Hollywood and commits nymphanticide. Director Stanley Kubrick and Novelist-turned-Scriptwriter Vladimir Nabokov
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