DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
News: Nouveaux Pictures and Cine-Excess have announced the UK DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Suspiria on 18th January 2010. Dario Argento's horror classic arrives on DVD and for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray Disc with a brand new high definition tra...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Film, Fashion and Fame: Directors, costumers have paired up for fashion -- Italian cinema has never lacked for style, especially with directors like Federico Fellini and the mastery of costume design savants like Piero Gherardi.
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Inferno is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento . It is 2nd in the Three Mothers trilogy . There's a fountain pen about 2 and a half minutes in. I'm not seeing the video, which should be embedded below, but it's available online at this link . Moria gives it 4 stars. Images Journal calls it "a film of sparse plot and indelible imagery." Slant Magazine details the plot. MSN...
The Sole Arbiter of Good Taste (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The curious thing about the success of Juno (2007) was that it made the bigger star not of its director Jason Reitman, nor its lead actress Ellen Page, but its writer and creator Diablo Cody. Perhaps on a surface level this was as a result of the distinctiveness of its relentlessly verbose, heavily stylized dialogue, but looking beyond this the film's lasting appeal derived from the fact that at its...
A Shaded View on Fashion (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Above: The ridiculously handsome Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld. His body just hangs off those cheekbones. Dear Shaded Viewers, Nadine Johnson was kind enough to invite me to the opening of The Martus Maw, new paintings by Nicolas Pol presented by Vladimir...
Music Snobbery (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I'm sure you know that Amazon.com likes to take notice of what you're looking at on their site. "We noticed you were looking at such-such, we commend this..." To back track, I was curious to see how much a CD...
Westword | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Dario Argento isn't exactly a practitioner of cinematic restraint. But few films by any director can touch the lurid, phantasmagoric spectacle of Argento's 1977 masterpiece, Suspiria . The Denver Film Society is showing a rare, archival, 35mm print of the horror film, including fiv...
giallo fever (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
There are a multitude of ways in which we can study film: Aesthetically, technologically, culturally, economically and so forth. The value of any given film for the discipline of film studies could be seen as lying in the extent to which it will support different interpretive perspectives. A film which can be looked at both for its aesthetics and for its wider significance is arguably thereby more...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
You know, I’ve seen PLENTY of horror movies focusing on elevators. Black Out, The Shaft, there was even a lot of elevator action figuring into the old Dario Argento title Demons 2. The thought of being stuck in an elevator or falling down an elevator shaft fills more than a few people with cold dread. [...]
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Last Friday night, this piece of "blood"-soaked "meat" (which is, I think, actually some kind of dyed latex product) was smeared roundly about my face and neck by a large man, who may or may not be named "Thor," dressed as a butcher, at the 2009 annual Scare for a Cure haunted house , held each year at the palatial Austin estate of video-game entrepreneur Richard Garriott,...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Last Friday night, this piece of "blood"-soaked "meat" (which is, I think, actually some kind of dyed latex product) was smeared bodily about my face and neck by a large man, who may or may not be named "Thor," dressed as a butcher, at the 2009 annual Scare for a Cure haunted house , held each year at the palatial Austin estate of video-game entrepreneur Richard Garriott,...
The Nigh Seen Creeder (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Exactly one year ago today, I told ya'll 'bout my favorite scary movies. Given that I just finished watched The Haunting, 'cause o' John J. Miller's recent name-check, and, well, let's just say that it's moved up a few spots in my list.Anywho, here're my favorite scary movies (watch 'em if you dare!): 1. Psycho. What can I say about Psycho that's not already been said? From its
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
I'm not a Dario Argento fan, and have never been into his acclaimed 'Three Mothers' trilogy or giallos. He's always created some ghastly death scenes, but these have never been enough for me to sit through 90+ minutes of boredom. However, his Jennifer was a creepy tale, easily one of the best to air during the first season of Masters of Horror . So I was looking forward to his next entry... ***SKINLESS...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
School got hijacked by Hollywood. British filmgoers are now nostalgic for a school system unlike anything they actually experienced Blame it on too much early exposure to comics like Bunty, but I'm excited about seeing An Education, because parts of it are set in a girls' school that sounds an awful lot like the one I went to, except we played hockey instead of lacrosse. And yes, I realise the "education"...
Monster Rally (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Halloween... Ravensdeath Archives Prof. Ravensdeath's Spooky Tales of Chilling Terror 1, 2, 3 Prof. Ravensdeath's Spooky Tales of Chilling Terror 4, 5, 6 Prof. Ravensdeath's Spooky Tales of Chilling Terror 7, 8, 9, 10 Spooky Tunes @ The Ghost Town Halloween Foodie @ Vanessa Oxygenvalve Grimm's Ghost Stories #31-40 @ Azathoth's Abode on the Plateau of Leng: The Dungeon Trick or Treat Witch Kit @ Neato...
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