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Article: Who's abusing Lolita now?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 4, 1996
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First the bad news: Adrian Lyne is to make a film of Vladimir
Nabokov's Lolita. The novel is 40 years old this year. Perhaps, in
general, that is too early to be sure. But I do not think so.
Lolita is one of the great works of art of our age. Lyn e is not
one of the great film-makers.
The book was first filmed in 1962. That version was directed by
Stanley Kubrick, scripted by Nabokov and starred James Mason,
Shelley Winters and Peter Sellers, a constellation of talent that
resulted in an honourably good movie - "a wild, marvellously
enjoyable comedy" the critic Pauline Kael wrote - that
nevertheless fell far short of the book.
Lyne made his name with those glossy, abysmal porno-shockers
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