{"id":9469,"date":"2011-05-31T02:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T01:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2012-07-13T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T01:24:10","slug":"wild-salomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/31\/wild-salomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Salom\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So there’s a poster for Al Pacino’s forthcoming drama-documentary<\/a> about the Oscar Wilde play but I’ve yet to see any release details. The tagline connects Salom\u00e9 with The Ballad of Reading Gaol<\/em>: “We kill the thing we love.”<\/p>\n

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Searching around for posters turned up this item for an Italian-French co-production<\/a> of the Wilde play directed by Claude d’Anna. I’ve not seen this but it can’t be any worse than Ken Russell’s version<\/a> so it may be worth seeking out.<\/p>\n

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Far better poster-wise is this splendid creation by Anselmo Ballester for the Italian release of the 1953 Hollywood film<\/a> (which isn’t based on the play). Rita Hayworth was too old for the role, and the film is simultaneously lavish and dull in the way that so many sword-and-sandal epics manage to be, but the poster is a gem. This site<\/a> has many more examples of Ballester’s poster art.<\/p>\n

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So there’s a poster for Al Pacino’s forthcoming drama-documentary about the Oscar Wilde play but I’ve yet to see any release details. The tagline connects Salom\u00e9 with The Ballad of Reading Gaol: “We kill the thing we love.” Searching around for posters turned up this item for an Italian-French co-production of the Wilde play directed … Continue reading “Wild Salom\u00e9s”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7,46],"tags":[2351,785,2600,2409,2599,1495,1506,595,1208,1870,116,1270,1490,597,123,1309],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-film","category-theatre","tag-al-pacino","tag-alla-nazimova","tag-anselmo-ballester","tag-caroline-smith","tag-claude-danna","tag-john-vassos","tag-julius-klinger","tag-ken-russell","tag-manuel-orazi","tag-marcus-behmer","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-peter-reed","tag-rene-bull","tag-rita-hayworth","tag-salome","tag-steven-berkoff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2sJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}