Movies

July, 1988

As a critic who admitted relishing the lunatic pleasures of Lisztomania and Gothic,I can safely say that director Ken Russell has done it again with Salome's Last Dance (Vestron). This movie's decidedly not for everyone, and maybe not for anyone except previously committed Russellmaniacs with a high tolerance for wretched excess. Most of the movie is devoted to a camped-up performance of Oscar Wilde's own Salome, banned as licentious back in 1892, here being privately staged for Wilde (Nickolas...