Lolita

Name: Lolita
Genre: Drama, Romance, Crime
Released: June 13, 1962
Duration: 153 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Bill Greene, Cec Linder, Diana Decker, Gary Cockrell, James Mason

1962

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Lolita (1962)

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: June 13, 1962 | TV-14

Starring: Bill Greene, Cec Linder, Diana Decker, Gary Cockrell, James Mason, Jerry Stovin, Lois Maxwell, Shelley Winters, Shirley Douglas, Sue Lyon

Summary: A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Crime

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 153 min

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Michael Wilmington

Brilliant adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 20th Century comic-erotic classic. [08 Jul 2005, p.C2]

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Nabokov’s satire is sensationally cast, with Winters and Sellers delivering some of their best work ever. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A fascinating if problematic early film from Stanley Kubrick, perhaps the most obsessive of the great auteurs of the 1960s, made just on the cusp of a run of cinematic masterpieces. Read full review

The Guardian Damon Wise

Although it is often seen as a precursor to the multiple parts played in Dr Strangelove, Sellers' turn here is a reminder of his true potential, soon to be swallowed up by a stream of ever more awful Pink Panther films. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Where Nabokov was witty, Kubrick is sometimes merely snide, but fine performances (particularly from Peter Sellers, as the ominous Clare Quilty) cover most of the rough spots. Read full review

Lawrence O'Toole

Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s wicked, witty hymn to forbidden love loses some bite in the journey from novel to the screen, but it’s got its plummy pleasures, including a wonderfully subtle James Mason as Humbert Humbert, obsessed with the delicious Sue Lyon as the 14-year-old Lolita (bumped up from 12 in the book), and a marvelously blowzy Shelley Winters, hilarious as Lolita’s sexually voracious mom. Read full review

Andrew Sarris

Kubrick goes through the motions with a hula hoop and the munching of potato chips, but there is nothing intuitive or abandoned about the man-nymphet relationship. The Director's heart is apparently elsewhere. [05 Jul 1962, p.11]

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Onlyclassicvg1

Feb 13, 2021

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Panchogul

Jun 13, 2020

Fascinante, se siente como un paseo por el parque, para ser de Stanley Kubrick tiene una atmósfera bastante amigable y relajada, las actuaciones son buenísimas, la química y tensión sexual entre Lolita y Humpert son inminentes y convincentes, por otro lado, el personaje de Charlotte esFascinante, se siente como un paseo por el parque, para ser de Stanley Kubrick tiene una atmósfera bastante amigable y relajada, las actuaciones son buenísimas, la química y tensión sexual entre Lolita y Humpert son inminentes y convincentes, por otro lado, el personaje de Charlotte es demasiado exasperante, se nota a leguas que siente envidia de su propia hija.… Expand

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mr_emre

Jun 3, 2020

It's adaptation of Nabokov's novel. A succesful movie for it's time. Seller and Mason made perfect acting. Respect to Kubrick.

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abrarqadir

Jul 21, 2020

A truly funny movie - noticeably well acted by James Mason, Shelley Winters, and Peter Sellers. Mason conveys gentlemanly smoothness, followed by detestable smoothness, and finally panic and paranoia. Winters conveys unabashed desperation, and Sellers - somehow conveys pure range and genius,A truly funny movie - noticeably well acted by James Mason, Shelley Winters, and Peter Sellers. Mason conveys gentlemanly smoothness, followed by detestable smoothness, and finally panic and paranoia. Winters conveys unabashed desperation, and Sellers - somehow conveys pure range and genius, though you would be hard pressed to explain how or why. One of Sellers' characters - Quibly, in terms of voice - is clearly doing a Kubrick impersonation. Lolita herself was cast perfectly - she is able to convey total confidence, wit and command over others (even though the story of course involves a clear case of indefensible abuse of her character). The visual introduction to her is perhaps Kubrick's best direction in the movie. While the story is relatively nonsensical, and as far as I can tell, inconsequential (At least without exploration of the sexual dynamic) - you do feel witness to lovely film-making. The very beginning, and very end, of the movie utterly bored me. I do, however, discount the ending of Kubrick films as something he is both bad at, and apathetic to.… Expand

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