Salome's Last Dance
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Movie Reviews of Salome's Last Dance
Movie Review: Theatre majors take head or . . . Salome. Dance for me !!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been wating for close to 5 years to have this movie come ut on a medium that is affordable. For the longest of time the VHS version was close to $80.00. Now that it is on DVD we can apreciate this film for less ... To say the least this is an excellent version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. If you want to understand Wilde and his plays, you should pick this film up. Not many people realize but Wilde and his friends would write plays and then act them out for fun. So when you see this movie you are getting a pretty good view of what a Friday night was for Wilde and his friends.
I mean to say, wouldn't it be fun to write a porn and have your friends act it out with you as the star? That was what Wilde did, that was why he was so controversial.
But like I said, if you are a theatre major or even a fan of literature and history. Watch this film and be amazed.
Movie Review: A Word for Word Interpretation of Wilde's Salome
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this film (VHS) from my local video store years ago & still have it. I'm stunned that the DVD is in such a prohibative price
This film is a word for word read of Wilde's play Salome, but what a "wild", filmatic modern interpretation. A very fun movie and campy isn't the only thing this movie is, its very irreverent in the best sense of the word, a most cheesy morsel of goods. I love the words in this play and frankly think the director was a genius with the physical counterpoint to the language of the play. I'm sure Wilde wrote the play
"straight". As a matter of fact he even acted in Salome & he played Salome, so maybe I'm wrong & he didn't write it "straight". The movie is faithful to the "fin de siecle" philosophy pervading Wilde's Salome & as such I believe the director of the movie did a bang up job. KYA
Movie Review: The Original Camp Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is easily the best version of Oscar Wilde's play out there, if only because it's a comedy. All other versions of Salome act as though the overly loquacious protestations of love and ridiculous tragedy are meant to be taken seriously and not tongue-in-cheek. Wilde wrote the play not as the supposed love poem that some "scholars" suggest, but instead as a parody of the melodrama popular at the time. Salome was the first camp classic and now Ken Russel allows us to experience as it was meant to be seen.
Later Richard Strauss would turn Wilde's work into the odd sort of psychological drama of his opera. And if that's what you want to see buy a version of the opera, don't try to force the play to become it. Allow for the play to be what it is.
Please Re-Release!
Movie Review: A MASTERPIECE
Summary: 5 Stars
There are films that have a way of dividing themselves among people in ways that cause people to really love them or not like them-such is the case with the Film Prosperos books and Salome's last dance.In my humble view, Ken Russel was a genius to thumb his nose at the critics for his masterful portrayal of the play "Salome" and I believe if Oscar Wilde had had the ability to get past Victorian morality this would have been the film he would have made.With shocking yet theatrical effects, it captures the mysterious and intriguing mood of the play, pouring drama and light and magic.Hopefully,the Koreans will get on this soon and have the film for sale under 10.00$ soon so the rest of you don't have to suffer through those wanting to sell you this film for over 50.00$Movie Review: The Wilde Party
Summary: 5 Stars
Nicely done version of the Oscar Wilde play. Unlike Russell's film of THE BOY FRIEND, which drowned straightforward source material in an ocean of pastiche and camp, the framing device here (a private performance of Wilde's play in a brothel on the night of his arrest) actually illumines, rather than obscures, the text. Nickolas Grace as Oscar himself is something of a nonstarter, but most of the cast rise (or sink) to the occasion; pleasant to see flashes of wit again from the usually sullen Glenda Jackson. Good design, and a marvelous performance from Imogen Millais-Scott, looking like the love child of Joan Greenwood and Quentin Crisp in the title role. Would make an interesting double-feature with Nazimova's notorious silent film.