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This blonde ingenue made a rocky transition to leading lady. Lyon won the controversial role of Dolores Haze, the sexually charged adolescent and the object of an older man's obsessions in Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita".... This blonde ingenue made a rocky transition to leading lady.

" Now, with a nut-case in North Korea threatening nuclear war, Dr. Strangelove has become alarmingly relevant again.

The tacky American landscape, an essential element of the book, is missing-the movie was shot in England , and looks it.

Stan's the man: Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick on the set of Barry Lyndon, Lee Ermey inFull Metal Jacket and a scene from 2001 In 1962, Stanley Kubrick travelled to England to shoot Lolita, an adaptation of the infamous Vladimir Nabokov novel.

"Do you think Coachella is the next Woodstock?" Settled in the middle of the crowd at the Coachella Stage, vaguely listening to Swedish rock band Peter Bjorn and John's lackluster set, we twisted blades of grass between our fingers.

Part of the brilliance of Nabokov's "Lolita," that scandalous, disconcerting novel in which a middle-aged European man of culture takes pedophilic liberties with an adolescent American girl, resides in its manifold layers of ambiguity, its openness to interpretation.

He was a hermit, refused to fly and wouldna TMt be driven at more than 50 kilometers an hour.

At first read, Jeremy Irons - mulling a return to Broadway after 25 years - was prepared to pass on "Impressionism." The Tony Award-winning actor didn't quite get Michael Jacobs' romantic comedy, which opens Tuesday in a production directed by Jack O'Brien. But another read changed his mind.

I Spy: Teenage Adam spices up his life by leering at his neighbor - who's got an entanglement of her own.

There are 150 films that will be part of the Cinequest Film Festival between today and March 8. There are cutting-edge offerings from young filmmakers and classics from the silent era.

When it comes to cinematic inspiration, "Being There" has always been there for actress Illeana Douglas.

Okay, so this rock-solid trailer is probably 10 times better than the movie itself, but Lolita 's got its moments: foot fetish main title sequence, creepy Peter Sellers, iconic sunglasses.

Wilmington on DVD: Being There , Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa , Turner classics, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Mike Wilmington on Wednesday 02/04/2009 2:00 pm, Comments PICKS OF THE WEEK Being There ...

My first memory of Frank Langella has him playing one of my childhood icons. A quick glance at his filmography shows you an immensely high likelihood of this.

But don't expect them to the Peter Sellers movies you may be most familiar with: there are no "Pink Panther" films here, and no "Shot in the Dark," "The Mouse that Roared," ""Lolita," "Hello, Pussycat," "Being ...

Hello darlings. Tonight we had the 15th annual Screen Actor's Guild Awards, which is very odd to me, as I seem to recall us forming the Screen Actor's Guild around 70 years ago.

Callow and Ronald Pickup will join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Sean Mathias' production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot , which runs at the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited season - ...