New from Arrow Video is the Blu - ray / DVD release of the box set titled Killer Dames, which is a collection of two
Italian Giallo films from director Emilio P. Miraglia featuring The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave and The Red Queen Kills Seven Times.
Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35 mm print of Dario Argento's cult
classic giallo film Deep Red (1975), 8 pm, June 30, at the theater.
A former art student, versed in experimental film and music (he's a member of a culinary - themed musique concrète outfit named the Sonic Catering Band), Strickland has declared that he owes his interest
in giallo films to their soundtrack contributions by avant - garde musical luminaries such as Luigi Nono and Luciano Berio.
I
love giallo films — a genre defined as a murder mystery style of film, generally Italian - made, which contains a lot of blood, guts, and eroticism.
The two of them spend most of their time talking
about Giallo films in general, including the films of the undisputed masters of the genre, Mario Bava and Dario Argento, while occasionally going back to the movie to talk about something that momentarily captures their interest.
The second feature by British writer / director Peter Strickland, Berberian Sound Studio is named after the film's setting: a fictional Italian post-production studio doing the post-synched audio recording for a particularly nasty 1976
giallo film titled The Equestrian Vortex.
Like prior Blue Underground and Anchor Bay interviews, a seated Morricone discusses the first of his numerous collaborations with Argento, and he elaborates on the eerie music written for the
seminal giallo film.
Meanwhile, Michael Coate has just posted a new History, Legacy & Showmanship column, featuring an interview with filmmaker Vincent Pereira on the subject of Dario Argento's classic
giallo film Suspiria, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last year.
Borrowing formal and atmospheric motifs from
1970s giallo films by directors such as Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Walk - Through re-imagines CalArts as a site of potential intrigue, subtly calling into question the artistic and democratic tenets embedded in the school's founding ideology.
The use of slowly building up the story and having a few twists is reminiscent of the best
Italian Giallo films.
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.
For Halloween Week we present this video tribute to
giallo films and the modern films that pay homage to them.
Restored version of
the giallo film begins when the brutally violated body of a young woman is dragged from the river.
On the heels of Suspiria and Inferno, Argento released one such gem, Tenebrae (or Tenebre, if you prefer) in 1982, an Italian
Giallo film that most consider to be one of his best.
What is an Italian
giallo film?
During the»90s horror boom, we also began to look outside the U.S. even beyond
the Giallo films of Italy and Hammer films of the U.K. J - Horror and K - Horror became internationally recognized sub-genres, producing such terrifying classics as Audition, Ringu, Cure and Whispering Corridors.
Though it comes out of Germany, the love and attention to detail in adding so many of the familiar hallmarks of
the Giallo film makes Masks more than just a simple homage, but it's so well executed I could have believed this was a lost Dario Argento film.
After the release of The Editor on Blu - ray last year and with the remake of Susperia in the works, it would seem that there is a slow revival of
the Giallo film.
Now Berberian Sound Studio pays tribute to analogue sound recording and
giallo films; the wonderfully pulpy Italian crime thriller and horror films that were most prolific during the 1970s.