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.
Went the Day Well? (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1942) versus E tu vivrai nel terrore – L’aldilà/The Beyond (lucio Fulci, 1981)
Posted: July 23, 2009 Filed under: British Cinema, European Cinema, Film Studies, Finding Words, Italian Cinema, Linking Spaces, Versus | Tags: Alberto Cavalcanti, British Cinema, E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà, European Cinema, Film Studies, Horror, Italian Cinema, Lucio Fulci, The Beyond, Versus, Went the Day Well?, Words, World War II Leave a comment »The fight against the violation of place and time occurs within spaces also facing the prospect of impossibility becoming commonplace.
