The Case of the Bloody Iris/Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer? (Guiliano Carnimeo, 1972)
Posted: August 10, 2009 Filed under: European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Giallo, Italian Cinema | Tags: Edwige Fenech, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, George Hilton, Giallo, Guiliano Carnimeo, The Case of the Bloody iris, Words Leave a comment »The eloquence of this striking sequence is found in the mannered interplay between visual extremity, directed expression and studied response.
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Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg & Luigi Pistilli – Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave/Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino, 1972)
Posted: July 27, 2009 Filed under: European Cinema, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words, Giallo, Italian Cinema, Linking Spaces | Tags: Anita Strindberg, Edwige Fenech, European Cinema, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Giallo, Luigi Pistilli, Sergio Martino, Words Leave a comment »
A seemingly obvious arc from disillusionment to death becomes suitably complicated by a mannered insistence on direction, expression and viewpoint.
Edwige Fenech – Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave/Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino, 1972)
Posted: July 22, 2009 Filed under: European Cinema, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words, Giallo | Tags: Abacus, David Thomson, Edwige Fenech, European Cinema, Giallo, Luigi Pistilli, pp. 82-83, Sergio Martino, The Whole Equation, Words Leave a comment »It starts with David Thomson and what he calls the ‘moons of becoming’, those ‘great faces in the movie dark’.
Edwige Fenech – Nude per l’assassino/Strip Nude for Your Killer (Andrea Bianchi, 1975)
Posted: July 16, 2009 Filed under: European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Giallo | Tags: Andrea Bianchi, Edwige Fenech, European Cinema, Faces, Giallo, Nino Castelnuovo, Nude per l'assassino/Strip Nude for Your Killer, Words Leave a comment »As certain film titles belie complexity so too do simple responses become complicated by the succession of image after image.
L’iguana dalla lingua di fuoco/Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (Riccardo Freda, 1971)
Posted: July 6, 2009 Filed under: European Cinema, Giallo | Tags: Dario Argento, Dublin, European Cinema, Film Studies, Giallo, Irish Cinema, Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda, Words Leave a comment »
Dublin streets bear witness to badly-executed murders in a style more Herschell Gordon Lewis than Mario Bava or Dario Argento.
Edwige Fenech – The Julie Christie of Giallo?
Posted: June 29, 2009 Filed under: Faces, Finding Words, Giallo | Tags: Edwige Fenech, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Giallo, Words Leave a comment »
Her screen presence (in the simplest sense) thrills me like the simple presence of certain people present in my life.
