Nick Cave
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 10:51:47 CDT 2009
saw the 1997 version in London with Chris K and the most infamous Jeff
Baker (whose articles on Pynchon I deeply love)
geez, i actually wept at the end of that flick
Kubrick had disagreements w/ Nabokov about the screenplay if memory serves
On 7/10/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, consider the two screen adaptations of *Lolita: * Stanley Kubrick
> 1962 version and the1997 version written by Stephen Schiff. They are vastly
> different from each other, and both are good. The first was mostly comedy
> and the second was mostly dark. Nabokov's book is both (as is nearly all
> his writing). I'm glad to have both versions on film as counterpoints to
> each other and the book.
>
> David Morris
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> If a film's neither as good as or better than the book, then why bother?
>
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