Lolita

Lolita

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Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita...

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Corporate Authors: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Seven Arts Productions, Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Kubrick, Stanley, Harris, James B., 1928-, Mason, James, 1909-1984, Winters, Shelley, Lyon, Sue, 1946-, Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980, Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Beverly Hills, CA : Burbank, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2007.
Edition:Widescreen version
Subjects:
DVDs.
Middle-aged men > Drama.
Teenage girls > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Dark comedy films.
Feature films.
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Summary:Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed into a black comedy and murder mystery. The film lacks the element that enabled most readers to understand the novel--Humbert Humbert's exquisite inner voice. As a consequence the film is big, luxurious, and full of a barren, cold humor, yet a visual tour-de-force in elegant black-and-white.
Item Description:Based on the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.
At head of title: Stanley Kubrick's.
Originally produced as an English motion picture in 1961; released in 1962.
Special features: Awards [text feature]; Theatrical trailer (1 min.).
Physical Description:1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital mono; widescreen presentation preserving the aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition.
Audience:MPAA Rating: Not rated; Canadian Home Video Rating: Rated 14A.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Oswald Morris ; editor, Anthony Harvey ; music composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle ; "Lolita" theme by Bob Harris ; art director, Bill Andrews.
ISBN:141986372X : DVD
9781419863721

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