Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0004273, Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:57:47 -0700

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Re: Nabokov "Film" request (fwd)
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from Michael Juliar, michael@juliar.com

For anyone interested in Nabokov on film, go to the Internet Movie Data
Base at www.imdb.com, click on search, and enter "Nabokov". You will
find extensive information on:

Lolita (1962)
Laughter in the Dark (1969)
King, Queen, Knave (1972)
Despair (1978)
Maschenka (1986)
Lolita (1997)
Laughter in the Dark (2000)

I assume that the IMDB's focus is on movies released into the American
and international marketplace. Therefore, a Russian Mashen'ka, for
example, not released internationally, would not be listed.

I don't know of current VHS/DVD/LD copies of any of these except for the
two Lolitas. Despair was available for a while years ago on VHS.


> ------------------
> I have some "film" questions for those up-to-date in this area of Nabokov
> studies...(please!):
>
> I am familiar with Fassbinder's _Despair_, and the two _Lolita_ films
> (Kubrick, Lyne)... are there any other films of VN novels available
> (isn't there a Russian rendition of _Mashen'ka_?)?
>
> Was _Laughter in the Dark_ ever started/completed (director Uli Edel,
> script by Allison Burnett)?
>
> Are there any interviews of Nabokov IN ENGLISH *readily* available on
> videotape?
>
> Please respond to me directly (dlwalker@u.washington.edu).
> I thank you in advance for any information,
> Lynne Walker