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.
有几段戏拍得不错的，剪辑音乐也很棒…但这个可怕的开头和结尾是在干什么…
不敢相信是EW的作品，也许他接了个美恐剧场版的活。
《隐形人》之后最好的女性主义类型片。受害者变成加害者，和曾经的加害者在日和夜里轮番加害当代女性，既是寓言，也是现实。文本意义上，这部片比《隐形人》走得更远。
乡下女孩来到伦敦学艺术，被包租婆骗押二付二住鬼屋，奋起反抗揭穿包租婆的老底拿回押金的故事？只是可惜了两位女主的颜了被拿来当导演的遮羞布。音乐实在是铺得太满了…（6.5/10）
这反倒是好一阵子内看到的最好的犯罪惊悚片了。最后披露的真相倒是并不新鲜，甚至提前就能预感到，但是如今摄影、CG技术大大丰富了镜头语言的表现形式。各种不可能的长镜头成为可能，对镜子的精妙利用毫不输《黑天鹅》。
拍得像是生怕观众有哪里看不懂的浅显 反转也显得 呃 略为鸡贼 然后歌曲也铺得太满了吧……
不断地切换过去与现在、梦境与现实，灯红酒绿纸醉金迷反复照进现实，到最后还反转了一下子。
看的时候我一直在想让日本人来怎么拍，一个昭和和当代的对话，不论是往癫狂过火拍，还是往端庄优雅拍，还是往解构KUSO拍，都有不少人能拍的比这有意思。
低於預期。結尾怎麼會這麼溫馨治癒啊，整個基調就怪了。情節是很老套，但Right的個人風格和服化道場景演員都很吸睛。燈紅酒綠繁華迷幻之下到底還有多少這樣悲慘的故事呢？「男的不行」的內容真是太能引起共鳴。看完回家路上聽了一路的The Kinks。馬特史密斯你走這個路線就對了！
艾丽在伦敦/午夜伦敦 的恐男歌舞片 虽然略显廉价 但我还是觉得很不错！安雅这种风格也很好看
No word for this kind of dumbness 拿着大女主的剧本又有天赋还能通灵，刚来伦敦就能付压二付二的房租，搞这么蠢的事情… 拍得倒是花里胡哨；多减一星为这恐男的三观（颜色很好看好像世纪初的电影
超喜欢超好看！太对我味口了！画面，音乐，美术设计太舒服了，摄影和调度都很妙！演员都好美好可爱啊！情节还有反转，中途有问号，但是转到最后是我喜欢的！爱了爱了！
上半段实在是breath taking，每一帧都扎在心里；下半段不得不说有点崩坏，与上半段所展现的野心不符，可惜啊可惜（于是导致我一边观影一边自行脑补两女主上演人鬼情未了，虽阴阳两隔但产生了一段彼此爱怜、催人泪下的旷世奇恋）（这个本的话我可以打一万分）（不如我来写剧本？）
2.5 埃德加赖特 从上部电影开始编剧水平就一塌糊涂 还以为是午夜伦敦结果是致命女人 你再这样下去我真的会失望
都2021年了我为什么还要看一个神神兮兮东奔西跑的工具人主角啊？
原来他们竟然是……原来她竟然没死……原来……
只有刚入梦境的时候还有点意思…镜面表演实在太好玩了！但后面这拍的啥呀 双女主的惊恐脸比剧情更可怕好吧（贬义） 差点没认出荆棘女王 她的表演才是真的吓人（褒义）
即使是最后被sandie追杀到绝境，Eloise依然拒绝了老男人们的建议，拒绝报警，这是一个girls help girls的故事。剧情上也不错，最大的悬疑在于Eloise目睹的60年代惨剧是幻想还是确有其事，老男人们的阴影与现实交织在一起，共同编织了一场噩梦。虽然酒吧老头并非Jack的很明显，但是sandie隐藏的颇深，我还一度以为sandie是Eloise的奶奶
《隐形人》之后最好的女性主义类型片。受害者变成加害者，和曾经的加害者在日和夜里轮番加害当代女性，既是寓言，也是现实。文本意义上，这部片比《隐形人》走得更远。
啊？？？？？？这…………这怎么解释？我还以为是命运共同体，还以为是她的“妈妈”，结果只是房东婆婆…那她是怎么回事呢？就是能看到幻像？只能看到这一个人的故事？所以你是精神分裂？这怎么解释？？？
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