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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1984
Is it possible to refute the claim that every single person on earth needs a Magic Mirror, which happens to be VINCENT PRICE?
As ever, Price's scene-stealing expressions and voice run away with the film, but that does not overshadow the wonderfully ostentatious performance by Vanessa Redgrave, who plays The Evil Queen. This little-known production features a staggeringly talented cast for what it is. Price and Redgrave are both extravagantly trained actors, and the same can be said for Snow…
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An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe 1970
'An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe' solidifies, with room for no doubt, Vincent Price's paragon status as far as Poe interpretation and performance go.
Price—for whom I have gained great affection over the time I have spent with him and his filmography—is confusingly magnetic in this one-man show stripped down to nothing but his presence and a few flourishes of basic camerawork and filtering (which was excellently deployed for thematic emphasis). The year of 1970 was not remotely as abundant…
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The Late Show 1977
''I'm not as young as I used to be.''
Bathed in the identical glow of luminous Los Angeles in 1973's 'The Long Goodbye' (directed by Robert Altman, who produced this movie), 'The Late Show' is a film that investigates ageing with all manner of considerations; our leading man, Art Carney, portrays the ailing skeleton of a gumshoe from the noirs of the '40s and '50s, but with one caveat—he is now far older than he ought to be for a…
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Prospero's Books 1991
''A thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.''
Through Peter Greenaway's rendition, I can scarcely imagine why former Milanese duke Prospero yearns to return to his dukedom beyond the impetus of indignation; this particular portrayal of the scholar transmogrifies his ''full poor cell'' into a veritable arcadia, vesting far greater emphasis on ''full'' rather than ''poor''.
With a droplet of water, we are at once catapulted headlong into the fantasia that is Prospero's exile, a remote island…
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