Sentences with phrase «of giallo»

Master of Giallo screenwriter Gastaldi on Death Walks on High Heels and how to write a successful giallo

Restored version of the giallo film begins when the brutally violated body of a young woman is dragged from the river.

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Amer, however, is the real deal: chronicling three key phases of a woman's journey into sexual repression and deathly deviancy, this near wordless sensorama distils the sights and sounds of giallo into a headily transcendent quintessence, all set to a score lovingly magpied from various Seventies Italian genre pics.

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.

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.

Argento's World of Giallo Dario Argento (b. 1940 --RRB- has been making gialli for a long time.

Abandoning the black gloves of the giallo in favour of a witchy brew of magic and murder, Argento carved a Baroque nightmare, saturated with expressive colour and punctuated by shocking violence.

Macabre, smart and teasing - fittingly for a film documenting the production of a giallo - Berberian Sound Studio makes a man going through hell horribly entertaining.

As you know, she's the offspring of giallo master Dario Argento and actress Daria Nicolodi, and this film seems to be a look into a world of fame and celebrity through a child's eyes, with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Gabriel Garko as the parental figures.

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.

Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Jean Rollin, Walerian Borowczyk and William Friedkin's Cruising serve as primary influencers here in his second feature, which is a dreamy mix of giallo, slasher, porn pastiche and the cinema du look period.

But I still treasure those discoveries and revel in the lush, visually stunning cinematic spectacle of the giallo at its best, a waking nightmare with the poetic grace of a musical: Italy's dance of death.

Blood and Black Lace (Arrow / MVD, Blu - ray + DVD), Mario Bava's 1964 landmark, is my pick for the birth of the giallo, and the mix of poetic, haunting beauty with Grand Guignol gore and a bent of sexual perversity is beautifully serves in this astounding 2K restoration from the original camera negative.

This second entry in the so - called «Animal Trilogy» found Argento further refining his distinctive style and cementing his reputation as the master of the giallo thriller.

by Walter Chaw After years spent working alongside such luminaries as Joe D'Amato, Lucio Fulci, and Dario Argento, Michele Soavi made his directorial debut with 1987's StageFright (onscreen title: StageFright: Aquarius)-- not an update of Hitchcock's underestimated Jane Wyman vehicle, but a carrying of the giallo torch from one generation ostensibly into the next.

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.

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

The writer / director is about to shoot a remake of giallo classic SUSPIRIA and is expected to begin production on JOE early next year.

In the vein of Giallo style filmmaking, the film...

This is Gothic romance with notes of horror, bathed in the unreal and magical colors of a giallo and brought to life by Guillermo Del Toro's beating heart of compassion in the face of evil.

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.

Returning to the nocturnal cityscape of Drive, Refn perverts All About Eve into a baroque death reverie — bathing the fashion industry in harsh pools of giallo light, slowing time to a hypnotic crawl, chopping away all but the faintest traces of plot.

The UK's Shameless Films seem to have a particular fondness for the torture and torment of Italian film siren Edwige Fenech at the hands of giallo legend Sergio Martino; but then again, I can't really blame them.

And while the cinematic phantasmagoria is more interesting than any psychological reading or narrative understanding, it's like mainlining decades of giallo highlights in a single screening.

Strickland's previous solo outing Berberian Sound Studio cleverly played with the tropes of giallo through sound.

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.

Strickland employs the trappings of Giallo within the recording studio in order to mirror the film within the film.

That is to say the elements of a production environment are obsessively scrutinized and the sound mixing, editing, creating and recording are twisted to a maddening level, the sound of Giallo echoes, reverberates and mixes all throughout Berberian Sound Studio and the screams and foul sound effects create an extremely uneasy tension and horror that only the mind can depict.

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.

«Amer» is both tribute to and feature - length emulation of the giallo, the Italian brand of feverish psychosexual horror mystery suspense that originated in the»60s and is associated preeminently with Mario Bava and Dario Argento.

That car is a 1986 Testarossa painted a vibrant shade of Giallo Fly, with just 45,000 miles on the clock and estimated at between # 80,000 and # 100,000.

Available in two two - tone color scheme options, buyers can select a matte black color with a choice of Giallo Spica, Rosso Mars, Bianco Isis, Nero Aldebaran, Grigio Liqueo or Grigio Ater, or glossy black with a choice of Bianco Canopus, Nero Nemesis, Grigio Adamas or Grigio Titans.

The new Lambo will wear a coat of Giallo Maggio (May yellow), which could be a reference to the month the company was founded in 1963.

His most well respected films touch on the horror genre, but fall more accurately into that of the giallo (Italian murder mystery thrillers, basically).