KillyRose

KillyRose

Favorite films

  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Where Is the Friend's House?
  • Eyes Wide Shut

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  • A Moment of Innocence

    ★★★★

  • Calvary

    ★★★½

  • Priest

    ★★★½

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    ★★★½

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  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    ★★★½

    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…

  • An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe

    An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe

    ★★★½

    '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…

  • The Late Show

    The Late Show

    ★★★★

    ''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…

  • Prospero's Books

    Prospero's Books

    ★★★★★

    ''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…