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.
Not exact matches
MIFF delivered many other memorable movies, from the
giallo scares
of Berberian
Sound Studio to the bleak, black comedy
of certain English hit Sightseers.
Setting aside the return
of their
giallo series with Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, a 35 mm screening
of The Murder
of Fred Hampton, the fascinating
sounding Crossroads and The Exploding Digital Inevitable, Bruno Dumont's Joan
of Arc movie Jeannette and the latest doc from sensory Ethnography Lab alum JP Sniadecki, El mar la mar, later in the week, this weekend they've got an exclusive
of Hong Sangsoo's utterly delightful Claire's Camera (I'll be seeing it for the fourth time).
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.
Director Peter Strickland turned heads amongst cult film circles with his Berberian
Sound Studio, a lushly realized tip
of the hat to the classic
giallo styles
of the 1970s that honored the past while also working in Strickland's own unique...
Strickland's previous solo outing Berberian
Sound Studio cleverly played with the tropes of giallo through s
Sound Studio cleverly played with the tropes
of giallo through
soundsound.
A paranoid drama about an English
sound editor and Foley artist out
of his depth on an Italian horror production, this was at once a fractured narrative
of mental breakdown, a treatise on screen
sound's address to the psyche, an inquiry into extreme violence and its effects on the viewer / listener, and a fanboy tribute to the thematic and stylistic excess
of the Seventies
giallo school.
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.