The Masque of the Red Death
“It’s time for a new dance”
House of Usher
(I was considering a bad punning title, but I’ve decided to spare you, just this once)
The EIFF’s Roger Corman retrospective kicked off with The Fall of the House of Usher, the first of his splendid Poe adaptations. It’s gloriously gothic stuff, in fabulous Color (not technically Technicolor, as that’s a trademark - the titles proudly [...]
Richard III
Another indulgence, but after all, Richard is theatre, literature and cinema’s quintessential anti-hero, and never more so than in Olivier’s gloriously all-out performance, the complete antithesis of his Henry V.
I don’t really have anything to say about it (I’m obsessed with the character, the play, this film, even Al Pacino’s documentary about the play, Looking [...]
Once more into the cinema…
This was always going to be an indulgence, because I could probably quote reams of Henry V verbatim, particularly Olivier’s version. And having never seen it on the big screen, I found it impossible to resist.