James B. Harris
1) Lolita
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed...
2) The killing
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Johnny Clay has a plan. After spending 5 years in Alcatraz, he decides that if he's going to commit crimes, the risk had better be worth the punishment. He then proceeds to mastermind a brilliant criminal scheme to steal $2,000,000 from a local racetrack in which "no one will get hurt."
Killer's kiss: Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the...