Sentences with phrase «giallo cinema»

Following up on the critically praised «Berberian Sound Studio,» Strickland stirs his love of Giallo cinema and sinister atmospherics in a cauldron containing the tastiest potions available in cinema, and creates a spell that had us hypnotized, immersed, and still awestruck.

Argento might be the father of giallo cinema, but it's Bava who laid the ground work with his 1963 film The Girl Who Knew Too Much and 1964's Blood and Black Lace, traces of which can even be found in Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon.

As much as the 1946 adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice has earned its place as an important American Film Noir, so too Ossessione is essential to Italy's history of lurid, intoxicating giallo cinema.16 Ossessione provides a perfect bookend to Calamai's final performance as Marta in Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso (1975): in both films Calamai embodies a similar bug - eyed feminine insanity, both characters pushed to the edge of violence and despair at their seeming invisibility to the men in their lives, and to society in general.

Bringing with her name and presence the aura of Italian giallo cinema, Asia Argento adds both dignity and pathos to the often thankless role of femme fatale.

She is currently working on books including 1000 Women in Horror, a book on art and intertextuality in giallo cinema, and co-editing a collection about the film work of Elaine May for Edinburgh University Press's ReFocus series.

Not exact matches

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage Blu - ray (1970 — Italy) In 1970, young first - time director Dario Argento made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with «The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,» a film that redefined the «giallo» genre of murder - mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.

The fourth segment covers seven sub-genres of cult cinema: the Giallo, spaghetti westerns, canuxploitation, pornochanchada, Christmas horror films, Food horror, and empty sci - fi.

Argento's first three films, the so - called «animal trilogy» (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat o» Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet) deepened the giallo as introduced to cinema by the late, great Mario Bava.

Peter Strickland's ode to classic giallo film, Berberian Sound Studio hits screens of all shapes and sizes in the US on June 14th when IFC Midnight releases the film in select cinemas, on iTunes and VOD June 14th.

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage Details: 1970, Arrow Video Rated: Unrated The lowdown: Dario Argento made his directorial debut with this «giallo» genre thriller that brought the Italian filmmaker to the attention of the international cinema community.

A dazzling, disturbing delight that borrows liberally from Hollywood genre cinema, Italian giallo, Paul Schrader's Cat People, and straight up horror (including the appropriation of the word «demon», up until now more readily associated with B - movie chillers), it is also nastily unique — a beautiful nightmare that will wrong - foot you right to the end.

Deepening and amplifying their super-fetishistic remix of Italian giallo and horror tropes in Amer (ND / NF 2010), Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani here create a delirious and increasingly baroque pastiche of the trance film and cinema fantastique — and then push it to breaking point.

Bava made dozens of films in the sixties and seventies as a director, writer and cinematographer, helping to launch the «giallo» genre of Italian cinema and re-inventing the slasher film.