Capital Celluloid 2019 - Day 97: Sun Apr 7

Lolita (Kubrick, 1962): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 3pm


This 35mm presentation, also screening on April 2nd, 16th and 23rd, is part of the Stanley Kubrick season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Keeping his misanthropic tendencies somewhat in check, Stanley Kubrick made a solid film (1962) out of Vladimir Nabokov's notorious and brilliant novel. James Mason is the pederastic representative of Old Europe, yearning after the 14-year-old flower of American girlhood, Lolita (Sue Lyon). 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. With Shelley Winters.
Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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