Lolita [dvd videorecording]

Select an Action

Title:

Lolita [dvd videorecording]

Author:

Kubrick, Stanley.

ISBN:

9781419863721

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publication Information:

Beverly Hills, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2007.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Based on the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.

Originally produced as an English motion picture in 1961; released in 1962.

Special features: Awards [text feature]; Theatrical trailer (1 min.).

Contents:

Polished credits -- Sore loser at ping-pong -- Portrait of death -- Charlotte Haze -- Decisive factor: Lolita -- At the drive-in -- Bedtime for Lolita -- Getting relaxed -- Summer dance -- Daughter with a lovely name -- Something cozier -- Charming evening's end -- Poetry for breakfast -- Glorious surprise -- "Don't forget me." -- Charlotte's confession -- Happy couple -- Lolita calling -- Death wish -- Open book -- Accident -- Bathtub grief -- Retrieving Lolita -- Good deal together -- Two normal guys -- Comes the cot -- Game idea -- Breaking sad news -- Cross my heart -- Father/daughter spat -- Dr. Zemf's visit -- Revelations at the play -- Family row -- On the road again -- Mystery car -- Hospital -- Midnight caller -- In care of her uncle -- Three years later -- Plans to relocate -- "Come away with me now." -- Epilogue.

Abstract:

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.

Reading Level:

MPAA Rating: Not rated; Canadian Home Video Rating: Rated 14A.

Subject Term:

Middle-aged men -- Drama -- DVDs.

Teenage girls -- Drama -- DVDs.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama -- DVDs.

Added Author:

Kubrick, Stanley.

Mason, James, 1909-1984.

Winters, Shelley.

Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980.

Morris, Oswald, 1915-