In today's New York Times (registration required), Terrence Rafferty has fairly long, and positive, article on Dario Argento, his latest film and his career, entitled
Beauty, Brutality and Three Tough Mothers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/movies/0...&pagewanted=all A good article. I like the term aesthete. That may very well describe Argento, to a large point. It's also a very Italian point of view :).
But PHENOMENA is lesser Gialli? Harrumph!
| QUOTE (Domenick Fraumeni @ Jun 1 2008, 03:15 PM) |
| But PHENOMENA is lesser Gialli? Harrumph! |
Yeah, I noticed that too, and I second your "Harrumph!."
Nice article but you wonder about Rafferty's Gialli knowledge.
I think most folks would say that TENEBRE & PHENOMENA are the two main Gialli in the new box set and that THE CARD PLAYER, which I like well enough, would be one of the "three lesser gialli," included in the set.
From the article:
"The instruments of death his movies favor are sharp: like the Surrealists, he traffics in the more intimate, close-up forms of violence, the Buñuelian menace of knives and razors. (Guns don’t interest him at all.)"
Certainly true, but both 'Four Flies' and 'Opera' have stylized bullet sequences (albeit in slow motion, where projectiles are effectively frozen in time - perhaps to bring the parties closer together akin to mêlée combat).
| QUOTE (David Lupton @ Jun 2 2008, 04:01 AM) |
From the article:
"The instruments of death his movies favor are sharp: like the Surrealists, he traffics in the more intimate, close-up forms of violence, the Buñuelian menace of knives and razors. (Guns don’t interest him at all.)"
Certainly true, but both 'Four Flies' and 'Opera' have stylized bullet sequences (albeit in slow motion, where projectiles are effectively frozen in time - perhaps to bring the parties closer together akin to mêlée combat). |
THE STENDHAL SYNDROME also has a slo-mo bullet scene.