Death Occured Last Night (La Morte risale a ieri sera) is an Italian-German crime darama by Duccio Tessari from 1970. Amanzio Berzaghi’s (Raf Vallone) daughter Donatella (Gill Bray) is suffering from a natal condition: despite her biological age of 25, she has the mind of a three year old. Unable […]
giallo
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Giallo is the Italian word for yellow and is a reference to the cheap yellow paperback horror/thriller books that were sold in Italy during the mid 20th century. It is also a term used to describe the Italian subgenre murder-mystery films that became popular in the late 60s and early […]
A little-known opera singer Betty (Cristina Marsillach) obtains an opportunity to become popular once Mara Cecova – the main star of a forthcoming performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Macbeth” – gets killed in a traffic accident. Upon replacing the deceased artist and being rousingly acclaimed for her appearance, she becomes […]
The Unique Worldview of Giulio Questi: Part 2 – Death Laid … What?! (click here for Part 1) Giulio Questi’s next project was called Death Laid an Egg – the movie had been a dream of both Arcalli and Questi (in fact they had planned to do it before Django […]
“If its a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.” – Alfred Hitchcock “Visual imagery and sound are essential elements of film. Thats what makes cinema cinema. Most directors use their camera as recording instruments […]