Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.
Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.
Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have complete control over the lighting. The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. The costumes, designed by Natacha Rambova, used material only from Maison Lewis of Paris, such as the real silver lamé loincloths worn by the guards.
No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its completion before it was released, by a minor independent distributor. It was a complete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova's producing career.
A longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is comprised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand. It is, of course, impossible to say, but one of the extras in Salomé reported that a number of the cast members—both featured and extras—were indeed gay, but not an unusual percentage of them, and certainly not all of them. What can be said is that Nazimova herself was a lesbian, the two guard characters (who, next to Salomé, have the most screen time) are at least played very stereotypically gay, and several of the female courtiers are men in drag.
Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Experimental Film Festival.
In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
“慢速视觉”作为一个引子，把话题接入医学，医学的氛围埋下淡化生死的基调，最终驶向时间与生命的探讨。
好久没看到愿意拍得这么认真的同性片。像王家卫的皮，但也有本土化的东西。绿光红裙，蛇皮裸背，那样极致的打光在暧昧、炙热、模糊不清的南美被肆意纵容着，变得更性感，更自然，更贴近人的肌肤。
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男主莫名的魅力。粗矿又细腻，但是网恋骗感情在我脑子里挥之不去。
剧情扯得连说魔幻都过了……
这是啥？？？
你以为他是一部剧情片 其实他是一部科幻片 你以为它是一部科幻片 其实它是一部纪录片
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看完之后我沉默了一下子，怎么说呢，全片就给我一个感觉，就是在一个喝到后半程已经非常疲惫的酒局，坐在旁边一直沉默的大哥突然张开他已经全是酒味的嘴抓着我开始叨逼，也不管我想不想听，就叽里呱啦乱七八糟的说了好久好久，说到我都困了，半卧在椅子上，满鼻子都是那种汗臭味。
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童话系电影，剧情没多少，就当动物世界看还是挺有意思的，人的剧情可有可无
跨性别主角的出场设计还挺巧妙的 我真的差一点就要以为另一个主角是黑人男gay蜜了 然后船上留下了一位旁观者陪着男主 两人都被留在了夕阳下还挺美好的 顺便一夸这片子的画面真的好美
这啥呀这是？啊？有人吗？有人吗？两星给王珞丹，一星给没表达出来的立意。还我血汗钱68块，吃一顿串串不香吗？
男主的身材真是unbelievably sexually attractive, 眼神忠诚又可爱，我看傻了？电影好像在讨论一种流动性向的可能，和《迷恋荷尔蒙》中大兵爱上跨性别女不同，这里男二心理认同还是男生，anyway，I’m all for this idea. 但电影本身在许多情节冗长，还有一些缺乏说服力
故事刚开始感觉还可以，越看越乏味，与印象中的巴西电影有出入。
编剧之野心似要囊括星辰大海，导演之功力却只落得东施效颦。跨越几十年的情节，要靠旁白极速开挂推进，所有情节和人物的设定近乎失真，议题过多导致处处语焉不详，模糊不清。不伦不类的片子定位，商业和文艺都没整明白的结果，就是叫好叫座都很难。苦心孤诣的宏大叙事，抵不过寡淡拙劣的呈现方式。当王珞丹的演技成为唯一可以期待的表现时，这个影评就可以成为纯粹的避雷针了。
可以驾车在炎热下行驶几千公里，但却不能带他回去。对于丹这里是逃离，是私人荒漠，好疏离的爱欲。
我说怎么对男主那么有感觉呢，原来我一直都把他看成了黎耀辉。而且很喜欢这个身材是怎么回事，大概是我真的老了。
两人视角的转换很喜欢，之前看过一部罗马尼亚的电影也一样《集体》。你带着爱来找我，我带着你的爱离开。
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