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LOLITA
January 19, 2013  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
This 1961 Stanley Kubrick movie was as brave as it was outrageous to film at the time – and even though some of the darkest undercurrents of Vladimir Nabokov’s once-banned satirical novel had to be skirted over (so to speak) at the time, Kubrick still managed to say a lot, and visually suggest a lot, with his wry examination of a proper gentleman’s improper obsession with a young girl. James Mason and Sue Lyon play those roles, respectively, and Peter Sellers all but steals the movie by playing a few others.
 
 
 
 
 
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