CATCHING UP WITH FILM - THE QUEST FOR A PERSONAL CANON

For the month of October, the master of Giallo, Dario Argento, will be my focus, a director whose filmography I have only grazed the surface of. Inferno finds Argento fully leaning into the supernatural, which his earlier film Suspiria really only committed to at the end. Instead of characters constantly resisting the very notion of the supernatural, the story focuses much more on the mystery of the three Mothers as first Rose, a poetry student, and then later, Mark, her boyf

For the month of October, the master of Giallo, Dario Argento, will be my focus, a director whose filmography I have only grazed the surface of. The influence of Dario Argento’s Suspiria cannot be underestimated. While there is much in this film that pulled from previous sources, not the least of which, was Argento’s own work, the images and the tone of this film have influenced countless films, often those made by exploitation filmmakers. The obsession with graphic violence

For the month of October, the master of Giallo, Dario Argento, will be my focus, a director whose filmography I have only grazed the surface of. Deep Red is the film in which Argento comes into his own as a director. His previous films, making up an informal “Animal trilogy,” all were promising, demonstrating Argento’s keen eye for striking images. He gives us some of his most vivid and gorgeous imagery yet with the bright, Technicolor reds and the even more profound blacks.

For the month of October, the master of Giallo, Dario Argento, will be my focus, a director whose filmography I have only grazed the surface of. Perhaps the biggest misconception I brought with me into exploring Argento’s works is that he is mainly a horror director. It is true that his most famous films - Suspiria and Deep Red - could qualify as such, but these three movies that constitute the so-called “Animal Trilogy” are more thrillers with hints of the slasher genre that