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Summary: A Must For Ken Russell Fans
Review: Even on tiny budget Ken Russell manages to create a visual feast and something entirely unique. This is not for everyone, but if you love this director's work as much as me --- it is a must have. Russell's narration is fantastic! If only they will have him do this for The Devils, Women in Love and Gothic we are going to be all set!
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Summary: A Must For Ken Russell Fans
Review: Even on tiny budget Ken Russell manages to create a visual feast and something entirely unique. This is not for everyone, but if you love this director's work as much as me --- it is a must have. Russell's narration is fantastic! If only they will have him do this for The Devils, Women in Love and Gothic we are going to be all set!
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Summary: Why So Expensive???
Review: How tragic and disastrous that the DVD is only available used and for $160 dollars! That's more than Pasolini's Salo! This is a great little strange film and the words Oscar Wilde gives to Salome to try to seduce John the Baptist are some of the most wonderful lines ever written. Wilde's play makes so much of the scene that when I first saw this film in my early 20s, I decided to look up the passage in the Bible to see what really happened. The Bible passage as I remember was only a sentence long! So thank you to Oscar Wilde for elaborating on that historical event in such a lovely way. I loved the Moon too. Needs to be re-issued though so I can afford it.
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Summary: Theatre majors take head or . . . Salome. Dance for me !!!!
Review: I have been wating for close to 5 years to have this movie come ut on a medium that is affordable. For the longest of time the VHS version was close to $80.00. Now that it is on DVD we can apreciate this film for less ... To say the least this is an excellent version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. If you want to understand Wilde and his plays, you should pick this film up. Not many people realize but Wilde and his friends would write plays and then act them out for fun. So when you see this movie you are getting a pretty good view of what a Friday night was for Wilde and his friends.
I mean to say, wouldn't it be fun to write a porn and have your friends act it out with you as the star? That was what Wilde did, that was why he was so controversial.
But like I said, if you are a theatre major or even a fan of literature and history. Watch this film and be amazed.
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Summary: Theatre majors take head or . . . Salome. Dance for me !!!!
Review: I have been wating for close to 5 years to have this movie come ut on a medium that is affordable. For the longest of time the VHS version was close to $80.00. Now that it is on DVD we can apreciate this film for less ... To say the least this is an excellent version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. If you want to understand Wilde and his plays, you should pick this film up. Not many people realize but Wilde and his friends would write plays and then act them out for fun. So when you see this movie you are getting a pretty good view of what a Friday night was for Wilde and his friends.
I mean to say, wouldn't it be fun to write a porn and have your friends act it out with you as the star? That was what Wilde did, that was why he was so controversial.
But like I said, if you are a theatre major or even a fan of literature and history. Watch this film and be amazed.
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Summary: Great if you like Russell, interesting otherwise.
Review: Ken Russell is kind of like stinky blue cheese: you either like him or you don't. If you like him, Salome is an essential work to add to your collection. Russell tends to hit you over the head with his hidden meanings, and this is one of the few films where he decides to let the images do the work for him, mostly by sticking close to the text of Wilde's original play. This is to his credit. The production design is lush, the photography surprisingly brisk, although his camera movements (as always) are just plain amateurish. Imogen Millais-Scott turns in an astonishing and bracing performance as Salome (interestingly, she never worked in film again) and Nicholas Grace (Brideshead Revisited) turns in a somewhat boring Oscar Wilde. I don't think I would buy this if I wasn't a big Ken Russell fan, but if you're learning more about this, er, interesting director, this is a good film with which to start.
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Summary: Great if you like Russell, interesting otherwise.
Review: Ken Russell is kind of like stinky blue cheese: you either like him or you don't. If you like him, Salome is an essential work to add to your collection. Russell tends to hit you over the head with his hidden meanings, and this is one of the few films where he decides to let the images do the work for him, mostly by sticking close to the text of Wilde's original play. This is to his credit. The production design is lush, the photography surprisingly brisk, although his camera movements (as always) are just plain amateurish. Imogen Millais-Scott turns in an astonishing and bracing performance as Salome (interestingly, she never worked in film again) and Nicholas Grace (Brideshead Revisited) turns in a somewhat boring Oscar Wilde. I don't think I would buy this if I wasn't a big Ken Russell fan, but if you're learning more about this, er, interesting director, this is a good film with which to start.
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Summary: Unique Vortex of Oddity!
Review: Much is made of risque film director's, loathe them or love them they are the ones mainstream Hollywood hacks very often "borrow" heavily from. And in doing so receive undo praise for innovention. Ken Russell is innovention personified! Like Cronenberg, Lynch and Alan Parker, he isn't afraid to takes the risks nessessary to make a highly provacative and compelling film. Salome's Last Dance is innovative, provacative, literate and well acted; brilliantly lensed on a miniscule budget (probably the budget of Spielberg's hair products durring one of his productions). Much praise to the lead actress, who's performance is nothing short of amazing! Grace as Wilde is particularly underappreciated in a subtle, yet alarmingly perverse performance that gives Stephen Fry's (in a different film) a run for his Wilde money. Odd, but sincere; bizarre, yet unique; I highly recommend t his rarely seen little gem!!!
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Summary: Unique Vortex of Oddity!
Review: Much is made of risque film director's, loathe them or love them they are the ones mainstream Hollywood hacks very often "borrow" heavily from. And in doing so receive undo praise for innovention. Ken Russell is innovention personified! Like Cronenberg, Lynch and Alan Parker, he isn't afraid to takes the risks nessessary to make a highly provacative and compelling film. Salome's Last Dance is innovative, provacative, literate and well acted; brilliantly lensed on a miniscule budget (probably the budget of Spielberg's hair products durring one of his productions). Much praise to the lead actress, who's performance is nothing short of amazing! Grace as Wilde is particularly underappreciated in a subtle, yet alarmingly perverse performance that gives Stephen Fry's (in a different film) a run for his Wilde money. Odd, but sincere; bizarre, yet unique; I highly recommend t his rarely seen little gem!!!
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Summary: The Wilde Party
Review: Nicely done version of the Oscar Wilde play. Unlike Russell's film of THE BOY FRIEND, which drowned straightforward source material in an ocean of pastiche and camp, the framing device here (a private performance of Wilde's play in a brothel on the night of his arrest) actually illumines, rather than obscures, the text. Nickolas Grace as Oscar himself is something of a nonstarter, but most of the cast rise (or sink) to the occasion; pleasant to see flashes of wit again from the usually sullen Glenda Jackson. Good design, and a marvelous performance from Imogen Millais-Scott, looking like the love child of Joan Greenwood and Quentin Crisp in the title role. Would make an interesting double-feature with Nazimova's notorious silent film.
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