#argentoseason — Public Fediverse posts

"increasingly dreamy giallo pits a blind Italian woman, an orphaned Chinese boy and a guide dog against a serial killer": Dario Argento's DARK GLASSES (OCCHIALLI NERI, 2022) screens 8.40pm NFT2, BFI Southbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2023/05/10/dark-glasses-occhiali-neri-2022/

"Dario Argento’s belated ‘Three Mothers’ trilogy closer disinters a past with which it cannot compete, while ushering in a new, ambiguous dawn": MOTHER OF TEARS (2007) screens 6.40pm NFT2 at #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/mother-of-tears-2007/

Adolescents, insects, and the evolution of the giallo form: PHENOMENA (CREEPERS) (1985), Dario Argento's favourite of his own films, is "a phantasmagorical horror headtrip truly worth going ape about". 3.50pm at NFT2, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/phenomena-aka-creepers-1985/

"Dario Argento's late-era, high-stakes, subpar giallo brings a poker face to its murderous (world wide) web of intrigue": THE CARD PLAYER (IL CARTAIO, 2004) screens 6.20pm tonight at NFT3, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2023/05/20/the-card-player-il-cartaio-2004/

"Dario Argento's late-era, high-stakes, subpar giallo brings a poker face to its murderous (world wide) web of intrigue": THE CARD PLAYER (IL CARTAIO, 2004) screens 8.30pm tonight at NFT2, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2023/05/20/the-card-player-il-cartaio-2004/

"Dario Argento’s belated ‘Three Mothers’ trilogy closer disinters a past with which it cannot compete, while ushering in a new, ambiguous dawn": MOTHER OF TEARS (2007) screens 8.40pm at NFT3, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/mother-of-tears-2007/

"Dario Argento’s return to giallo was also a sophisticated staging of both the genre and his part in it as atrocity artist": TENEBRAE (1982) screens 8.50pm at NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2021/04/18/tenebrae-aka-tenebre-aka-unsane-1982/

"Maybe a bit too good. Too clean, yes, too precise. Too… formal. It should be more trashy." Dario Argento's giallo hall of mirrors DEEP RED (1975) comes painted in many colours. Screens 6.10pm at NFT1, #BFISouthbank for #ArgentoSeason
https://projectedfigures.com/2022/12/21/deep-red-profondo-rosso-1975/

"a Marienbad-like labyrinth of winding corridors, false paths, hidden chambers and fragmentary narratives designed to entrap us in a web of confusion and contradiction": Suspiria's sequel INFERNO (1980) screens 8.45pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/inferno-1980/

"a mesmerising, if confounding, danse macabre that treads that strange terrain between the psychological and the magical": Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA (1977), screens 6.10pm this evening, NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2018/04/12/suspiria-1977-2

"Dario Argento’s return to giallo was also a sophisticated staging of both the genre and his part in it as atrocity artist": TENEBRAE (1982) is now on #BFIPlayer #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2021/04/18/tenebrae-aka-tenebre-aka-unsane-1982/

Adolescents, insects, and the evolution of the giallo form: PHENOMENA (CREEPERS) (1985), Dario Argento's favourite of his own films, is "a phantasmagorical horror headtrip truly worth going ape about". 8.45pm at NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/phenomena-aka-creepers-1985

Nine disparate leads, and lots of blind alleys: Dario Argento's THE CAT O' NINE TAILS (1971) screens 8.45pm today at NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2018/04/24/the-cat-o-nine-tails-1971/

"Dario Argento’s return to giallo was also a sophisticated staging of both the genre and his part in it as atrocity artist": TENEBRAE (1982) screens 8.45pm at NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason
https://projectedfigures.com/2021/04/18/tenebrae-aka-tenebre-aka-unsane-1982/

"naïve, but macabre at the same time": Dario Argento's directorial debut THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970) takes a reflexive look at violent art and its effects. Screens 9pm NFT1, BFI Southbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2018/06/03/the-bird-with-the-crystal-plumage-1970/

"a Marienbad-like labyrinth of winding corridors, false paths, hidden chambers and fragmentary narratives designed to entrap us in a web of confusion and contradiction": Dario Argento's Suspiria sequel INFERNO (1980) screens 8.45pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/inferno-1980/

"naïve, but macabre at the same time": Dario Argento's directorial debut THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970) takes a reflexive look at violent art and its effects. Screens 8.45pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2018/06/03/the-bird-with-the-crystal-plumage-1970/

"all at once a twist-heavy giallo and a sophisticated meta-giallo": in Dario Argento's TENEBRAE (1982), art is the ultimate killer. Screens 6.20pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank, with director's live intro! #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2021/04/18/tenebrae-aka-tenebre-aka-unsane-1982/

"Dario Argento’s artful giallo pits a chauvinistic pianist against a psychotic killer, as both race to the primal scene of trauma": DEEP RED (1975) screens 3pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank, with a director's Q&A! #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2022/12/21/deep-red-profondo-rosso-1975/

Nine disparate leads, and lots of blind alleys: Dario Argento's THE CAT O' NINE TAILS (1971) screens
11.20am today at NFT3, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2018/04/24/the-cat-o-nine-tails-1971/

"a mesmerising, if confounding, danse macabre that treads that strange terrain between the psychological and the magical": Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA (1977), 8.40pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank, with live intro from the director #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2018/04/12/suspiria-1977-2/

(sc)aria: although Dario Argento's OPERA "appears to have a resolution of sorts in the Swiss Alps, no fat lady ever sings, and we are left with the impression that the show, in all its deranged psychodrama, must go on." Now on #BFIPlayer #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2019/09/08/opera-1987/

"all at once a twist-heavy giallo and a sophisticated meta-giallo": in Dario Argento's TENEBRAE (1982), art is the ultimate killer. On #BFIPlayer from today #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2021/04/18/tenebrae-aka-tenebre-aka-unsane-1982/

Adolescents, insects, and the (r)evolution of the giallo form: PHENOMENA (CREEPERS) (1985), Dario Argento's favourite of his own films, is "a phantasmagorical horror headtrip truly worth going ape about". On #BFIPlayer from today #ArgentoSeason
https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/phenomena-aka-creepers-1985/

"Dario Argento’s artful giallo pits a chauvinistic pianist against a psychotic killer, as both race to the primal scene of trauma": DEEP RED (1975) is on #BFIPlayer from today #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2022/12/21/deep-red-profondo-rosso-1975/

"increasingly dreamy giallo pits a blind Italian woman, an orphaned Chinese boy and a guide dog against a serial killer": Dario Argento's DARK GLASSES (OCCHIALLI NERI, 2022) screens 9pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2023/05/10/dark-glasses-occhiali-neri-2022/

(sc)aria: "the baroque shrillness of Dario Argento's giallo looks back to primal scenes, buried histories and older, higher forms of art"
OPERA (1987) screens 6.30pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank, introduced by #ArgentoSeason curator Michael Blyth https://projectedfigures.com/2019/09/08/opera-1987/

Some scars don't heal: Dario Argento's THE STENDHAL SYNDROME (1996) is a swooningly synaesthetic, twistily traumatised tale of art, abuse and identity.
Re-screens 6.20pm at NFT3, #BFISouthbank for #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2019/10/20/the-stendhal-syndrome-la-sindrome-di-stendhal-1996/

Expressionist insanity: in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET, "...there are images that will burn themselves right onto your retina, if not scar the 'grey velvet' of your brain." My favourite Argento screens again, 5.40pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/four-flies-on-grey-velvet-1971/

"Maybe a bit too good. Too clean, yes, too precise. Too… formal. It should be more trashy."
Dario Argento's giallo hall of mirrors DEEP RED (1975) comes painted in many colours. Screens 8.40pm at NFT2, #BFISouthbank for #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2022/12/21/deep-red-profondo-rosso-1975/