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		List Price: $29.98		Label: Geneon [Pioneer] Salesrank: 124143 Released: September 14, 1999
		Our Price: $237.89
		Used Price: $94.95
		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Salome's Last Dance Reviews:
A MASTERPIECE
2009-12-22 - There are films that have a way of dividing themselves among people in ways that cause people to really love them or not like them-such is the case with the Film Prosperos books and Salome's last dance.In my humble view, Ken Russel was a genius to thumb his nose at the critics for his masterful portrayal of the play "Salome" and I believe if Oscar Wilde had had the ability to get past Victorian morality this would have been the film he would have made.With shocking yet theatrical effects, it captures the mysterious and intriguing mood of the play, pouring drama and light and magic.Hopefully,the Koreans will get on this soon and have the film for sale under 10.00$ soon so the rest of you don't have to suffer through those wanting to sell you this film for over 50.00$

The Original Camp Classic!
2007-09-01 - This is easily the best version of Oscar Wilde's play out there, if only because it's a comedy. All other versions of Salome act as though the overly loquacious protestations of love and ridiculous tragedy are meant to be taken seriously and not tongue-in-cheek. Wilde wrote the play not as the supposed love poem that some "scholars" suggest, but instead as a parody of the melodrama popular at the time. Salome was the first camp classic and now Ken Russel allows us to experience as it was meant to be seen.

Later Richard Strauss would turn Wilde's work into the odd sort of psychological drama of his opera. And if that's what you want to see buy a version of the opera, don't try to force the play to become it. Allow for the play to be what it is.

Please Re-Release!

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.