Salome's Last Dance

Starring:Imogen Claire, Paul Clayton, David Doyle, Linzi Drew, Mike Edmonds, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Kenny Ireland, Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Caron Anne Kelly, Denis Lill, Imogen Millais-Scott, Russell Lee Nash, Tim Potter (II), Warren Saire, Tina Shaw, Matthew Taylor, Michael Van Wijk
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Product Type: DVD

Description

A cult favorite from director Ken Russell. In a candle-lit Victorian brothel, playwright Oscar Wilde sips champage as pretty prositutes enact his latest play, "Salome," about the temptress responsible for the death of John the Baptist. As Salome performs her Dance of the Seven Veils, life begins to imitate art and the story becomes a mirror of the life of its author. Features: Audio commentary with director Ken Russell, Theatrical Trailer, Scene Access

Customer Reviews:

A Word for Word Interpretation of Wilde's Salome.......2006-12-30

I bought this film (VHS) from my local video store years ago & still have it. I'm stunned that the DVD is in such a prohibative price range!!!!!!!!!!
This film is a word for word read of Wilde's play Salome, but what a "wild", filmatic modern interpretation. A very fun movie and campy isn't the only thing this movie is, its very irreverent in the best sense of the word, a most cheesy morsel of goods. I love the words in this play and frankly think the director was a genius with the physical counterpoint to the language of the play. I'm sure Wilde wrote the play
"straight". As a matter of fact he even acted in Salome & he played Salome, so maybe I'm wrong & he didn't write it "straight". The movie is faithful to the "fin de siecle" philosophy pervading Wilde's Salome & as such I believe the director of the movie did a bang up job. KYA

Oh please, someone re-release this film on DVD!.......2006-11-16

This film is an exquisite study in camp. Susan Sontag's NOTES ON CAMP should be amended to include this movie. I ADORE this movie. Glenda Jackson vamps it up as Herodias, and Stratford Johns is hilarious as Herod. It is fun, it is ribald, it is scandalous and witty, it is Ken Russell at his best (and that's saying quite a bit, because he can be a very uneven director-- you've got the man who on one hand created WOMEN IN LOVE, and then recently crapped out THE FALL OF THE LOUSE OF USHER). Well darlings, enjoy this film, watch it with a glass of champagne and a clove cigarette.

May it indeed be the last.......2005-12-01

It's interesting to see this movie getting so many good reviews, because among my friends, it's known as the film that's only bearable to watch on fast-forward.

This film is sensationalist, yet boring--it attempts to follow in the steps of Jarmann, but is not nearly so inventive.

The person playing Salome was horrible, reducing her wonderfully paradoxical character in Wilde's play to nothing more than a Lolita knock-off with an oral fixation, with only one tone of voice for all of her lines.

Most of the sequences actually relating to Oscar Wilde were historically wrong--which could be borne easily enough--but also unimaginatively vulgar, and demeaning--which cannot. I wouldn't be surprised if the take on Wilde and his circle portrayed here was based in large part on "Teleny"--an "erotic novel" (I use both terms loosely) that has popularly been attributed to him, but which was most likely a simple (and poor) imitation of his style.

This film might be interesting as a curiousity, but it does Wilde's beautiful play no justice.

Please re-release this movie on DVD!!!!.......2005-07-18

Please re-release this great movie on DVD so that humble people such as myself can afford it. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miscreant Minx . . . or Calumnied Cassandra??.......2005-03-20

In more ways that one, Imogen Millais-Scott reminds me of a number of my exgirlfriends. She is cuter than a bug and twice the effort to cuddle, and for that reason alone I counsel acquaintanceship with this glorious mess.

"The Trial of Salomé v. Wilde"____________________________>

Of all Glory authored by He in His trade,
No Beast of His likeness was properly made.
He fashioned from filings of immaculate grade,
His image, now mortal, and divinely portrayed.

From none He made one, and one into two,
The former, his function: the latter he'd woo.
One painted steadfast, built pious and true,
The other made lesser; of curious hue.

~

And she, insufficient, made minor a match,
For pomiferous persuasions from saurian Scratch.
"Behold! censored produce; sworn not to detach,"
Made ever more eager by Satanic dispatch.

That dame of fair beauty but runty resolve,
Resigned all resistance; let duty dissolve.
With proud mastication at once did devolve,
The grace and the virtue 'round each did revolve.

~ ~

So Adam, fell even, with whom he shared birth,
A guilt by relation had sullied his worth.
An exile from Eden, that Heaven on earth,
Our hero, now tainted, was cast from His mirth.

If blame is commissioned, and one falls to scorn,
Spare our true hero - from virtue was torn;
The blanche of perversion is hers to adorn,
Discolored devotion takes feminine form.

~

In honor of insults to masculine pride,
A host of harsh harlots have sought to misguide.
Since Eden's ejection, our faith she's defied,
It's fashioned in fables, and utters our slide.

With malice aforethought and sex her device,
A girl from Judaea draws violence from vice.
A jig in her skivvies had precious a price,
And bound by his honor, her wish, he'd suffice.

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A tart! A tyrannous! Through ages the scream,
Aptly termed wicked or so it would seem.
But truth of her purpose shall raise her esteem,
Amending the matter and favor, redeem.

Now poesy relinquish; with text, thus begin,
Descriptions of lust and of female sin.
This frequent of fables and subject of stage,
Forthwith shall it follow on subsequent page.

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