Lolita on TCM

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even though I hate that fuck , he has ALL the good films !!

[El Supremo]

1. She came back in the Big Lebowski. >>

Remember the quote?

[rug]

6. Quote? How about the whole damned scene?

Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars.
Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited.
Bunny Lebowski: Brandt can't watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred.
Brandt: Ah haha. That's marvelous.
The Dude: Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine

[UTUSN]

2. Who is the aforementioned "f***" in question -- TURNER, NABOKOV, Robert OSBORNE?

I hope it's not the magnificent James MASON.

Most weeks I tune in just for the intros with OSBORNE dripping condescension to Drew BARRYMORE. I don't think he's ever been so pedantic with the other guest hosts as with her, a couple of times over the weeks telling her that her choice of The Essentials were not essentials. Apparently she really absorbed that somebody told her black'n'white is kewl for filming'cause she really really likes it!1 This time he stopped her from talking about Peter SELLERS until after the movie, where he said the one thing he didn't think worked in this movie was KUBRICK showcasing SELLERS with multiple characters that didn't advance the plot. She said she would "agree to disagree," blithely ignoring that he was TELLING her that she was totally, insufferably WRONG. Hilarious.

[REP]

3. Anyone adapting 'Lolita' to the screen

I love Kubrick - and he mangled Nabakov's novel unforgivably. Apparently didn't understand what the book was about or Nabakov's favorite device: the unreliable narrator.

[UTUSN]

5. But NABOKOV was the screenwriter. & OSBORNE said that the censors kept KUBRICK tied down, but

that he thinks the restrictions made KUBRICK make the movie better. I don't know about the comparative dimensions of book-to-movie, but this sounds like The Shining. I never read the book, was stunned by the movie, and KING hates it and did his own t.v. movie of his book and I've turned it (KING's) off trying it twice.

I've seen this movie once and am disgusted with the subject, but MASON's performance (KUBRICK's vision of things) portrays the profile of the sniveling sicko really disgustingly well, no? I see the movies as their own thing, not as about how much they stick to the source, but I'll use Drew's insouciance to "agree to disagree" haha!1

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. who Turner? you hate Turner because he has Lolita? Lolita is a good Film?

really? some dumbass man becomes obsessed with some bratty teenager is good film? fuck.