Sentences with phrase «giallo genre»

New to this edition and featured on both Blu - ray and DVD editions is commentary by film historian and Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas and the almost hour - long «Psycho Analysis,» an in - depth documentary on Blood and Black Lace and the origins of the giallo genre featuring interviews with directors Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi among others.

Fourteen years removed from his last good movie (Opera), his latest film Sleepless (a.k.a. Non ho sonno), starring the inimitable Max Von Sydow and heralded as a return to Argento's roots in the giallo genre, hits North American shores months after bootleg copies of it have already circulated amongst the ranks of disappointed fanboys.

It is still an interesting selection in the giallo genre especially for the memorable burlesque scene and the final climatic ending with multiple twists and turns.

There are multiple plot twists that are typical of the Giallo genre and they make for an exciting final 15 or so minutes.

Not exact matches

As in that package, these featurettes collectively elaborate on the giallo at large and on The Bird with the Crystal Plumage's specific place in the genre.

Characterised by violence and beautiful woman, giallo is a genre that doesn't appear to have much of a feminist bias.

The two genres have a history of interchange, be it the influence of classic Westerns on the films of John Carpenter (who even penned two obscure Westerns, El Diablo and Blood River) and George A. Romero or the parallel development of the giallo and the spaghetti Western in Italy.

Italian horror did not begin and end with giallo, but it certainly put the genre on the map and influenced the direction of Italian horror (as well as, among others, Spanish and French horror) for decades.

A painter and cinematographer turned director, a craftsman turned celluloid dreamer, an industry veteran who created, almost single - handedly, the uniquely Italian genre of baroque horror known as «giallo,» he directed the most graceful and deliriously mad horror films of the 1960s and early 1970s.

In recent years, Japan and Spain have, in turn, taken the lead in carving out their own territory in the horror genre, and I've left the giallo spelunking for hardier souls than I.

Now Arrow, a British label that recently launched an American line of Blu - ray and DVD releases (through distributor MVD), has injected new blood into the genre with some of the best editions of classic, notorious, and outrageous giallo titles in the past couple of years.

Two early Dario Argento gialli (that's plural for giallo) debut on Blu - ray, neither of them among his masterpieces but both showing a young director exploring the possibilities of play within genre filmmaking and perfecting his technical skills and expressive talents.

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.

That's because while Clark's successful, seductive, and I guess unpremeditated iteration of the giallo formula (whodunit structure, operatic set - pieces, abundance of shots from the killer's P.O.V.) as established by Mario Bava and his peers sparked a genre unto itself in America, the more pioneering copycats, lacking Clark's flair for interpersonal dynamics, so grotesquely oversimplified Black Christmas as to discard its most distinguishing feature: its empathy.

Though the genre's invention (named after the yellow / giallo covers of Italian penny dreadfuls) is credited to compatriot Mario Bava (see, especially, his astonishing Blood and Black Lace), Argento's scary polish and cunning for film language bridged the cultural, mainstream / arthouse gap with agility and audacity.

Today marks the birthday of legendary Italian director Mario Bava, who is undoubtedly best known for his major achievements in the «giallo» horror genre (although he created works ranging from spaghetti westerns to science fiction films as well).

Today marks the birthday of legendary Italian director Mario Bava, who is undoubtedly best known for his major achievements in the «giallo» horror genre (although he created works ranging from spaghetti westerns to science fiction...

And The Neon Demon, a propulsive vehicle for lavish Eurotrash - y images, like the prismatic one of Elle Fanning feigning a make - out session with two of her diamond - refracted reflections, at first plays like a slicker version of Darren Aranofsky's frenetic Black Swan — a formidable piece of cool, giallo - inspired genre work.

The former is a supernatural thriller whereas Giallo, a genre established by Mario Bava in 1967 with the visually sumptuous KILL, BABY... KILL, may invoke the spirit but leans heavily toward the murder - mystery elements of noir.

BF: The giallo and the Western are both genres focusing on the mise en scène.

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.

Am not sure about the ending seemed more of a nod to Italian «giallo» genre but brave all the same.

It doesn't merely acknowledge the expressionist possibilities in a genre beloved horror fans but unknown to most people, it condenses it into a concentrated extract: a 90 - minute hit of the essence of giallo as a surreal subjective journey, part sexual awakening, part repressed fear, part rarified death dream.

He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror movies.

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.

The New York Ripper's main claim to fame is its reputation as a sadistic, gory, and generally misogynist giallo — the Italian term referring to a combination of the crime and horror genres (basically a whodunit with slasher elements) that became popular in the 1960s and endured through the 1970s.

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.