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[Mark Kohut]

Even Lolita worked for me. Nabokov adapted it.

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes to Barry Lyndon! And Dr. Strangelove, from Red Alert. I'd say the only
> (for me, anyway) unsuccessful Kubrick adaptation was Lolita - but adapting
> Nabokov's brilliant prose is a tough job.
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2026, 4:05 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Kubrick and "Barry Lyndon" – what he did with that novel is
> > overwhelming, the structure alone. In my eyes Shining the movie is not
> > better than Shining the novel.
> > And Hawks made from Hemingway's underwhelming novel THAHN a
> > wonderful movie.
> >
> >
> >
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