Film
Salomé
- 7PM
The passion project of Russian-born actress and producer Alla Nazimova, this outrageously stylized adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s notorious play—based on the biblical story of the teenage princess who lusts after the severed head of John the Baptist—is a delirious, decadent avant-garde spectacle. Its status as a queer classic rests both on its Art Nouveau-meets-camp style and on the legend that the bisexual Nazimova cast the film entirely with gay actors.
New 2K DCP courtesy Kino Lorber
Recorded music by Aleksandra Vrebalov
Introduction by composer Aleksandra Vrebalov
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