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| Dario
Argento |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Producer / Composer |
| 1940 - |
| Born September 7,
Rome, Italy |
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Production Country: Italy |
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Key Genres:
Horror,
Giallo, Thriller, Psychological Thriller |
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Collaborators: Franco
Fraticelli (Editor), Daria Nicolodi (Leading Player), Giuseppe Bassan
(Production Designer), Claudio Argento (Producer), Salvatore Argento
(Producer), Franco Ferrini (Screenwriter), Gabriele Lavia
(Leading Character Player), Luciano Tovoli (Cinematographer), Romano Albani (Cinematographer), Alida Valli (Character Player) |
| Recommended: Deep
Red (1975) |
| Worth
a Look: The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1969), Inferno (1980),
Tenebrae (1982), Phenomena (1984), Terror at the Opera (1987) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Dark
Dreams: The Films of Dario Argento ] [ Dario
Argento: Master of the Macabre ] [ A
Fistful of Dario: The Dark Cinema of Dario Argento ] [
Off Screen Article (2006) ] |
| Books: [
Art
of Darkness: The Cinema of Dario Argento ] [ Profondo
Argento: The Man, The Myths and the Magic ] [ Broken
Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: Suspiria
(1977) |
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"The
mechanics of fear, nothing else, are what concerns Argento, and
the stories, which seem to make less and less sense as the films
become more recent, are strictly of secondary concern in his
frighteningly successful efforts to grind an audience into its
seat...Argento has proved so good at this modern extension of
the Val Lewton philosophy that one regrets the excess of
bloodshed in his later films." - David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999) |
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"The
process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes
that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach
that madness as something dangerous and I'm afraid, but also I
want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't
know why but I'm drawn." -
Dario Argento |
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"As
a director, Dario Argento very quickly established the status of
a cult film phenomenon, whose works were praised and condemned
in equal measure. Since 1970 he has directed 16 films, whose
convoluted plotting, excessive visual style and unconventional
gender twists have repeatedly upset established definitions of
cinematic taste. Argento's films are all marked by an elaborate
use of camera work, lighting and musical score. However, any
artistic labels applied to these images are complicated by his
insistence on using them as backdrops to scenes of sexual
violence." -
Xavier Mendik (Senses of Cinema, 2003) |
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