“From a 1923 silent film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play, Salome. It has, like the play, always been surrounded by controversy. Adding to its notoriety is the film’s undoubted aura of loaded eroticism, heightened by the melodramatic, highly stylised performances of the cast. The film’s visual imagery matched the illustrations made by Aubrey Beardsley for Oscar Wilde and was in black and white only, having just some metallic details as accents that would thus reflect the light. As one critic commented, it is ‘more like a bizarre Art Nouveau-inspired erotic dream than a piece of cinema’”

18th Jul 2011 (2:15 pm) - By thewildean