Lolita
by Stanley Kubrick
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Actor: Gary Cockrell, James Mason, Jerry Stovin, Shelley Winters, Sue LyonDirector: Stanley Kubrick
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Editor: Anthony Harvey
Producer: Eliot Hyman
Producer: James B. Harris
Writer: Vladimir Nabokov
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 152 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Lolita
Movie Review: 3.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
As long as you don't go into Lolita expecting to see Nabakov's novel put literally on screen, you'll probably be impressed by this fine (if a tad long) adaptation; the acting is top-notch, the B/W cinematography very effective and the conclusion surprisingly poignant
Summary of Lolita
This breathtaking, erotic tour de force from Stanley Kubrick depicts a middle-aged man's (James Mason) strange passion for a nubile nymphette (Sue Lyon) Features Peter Sellers and Shelley Winters. Year: 1962 Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter SellersWhen 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 doppelg?nger 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
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