The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
No wonder Argento is referred to as the Italian Hitchcock. This is the first of his works I have got around to, and I expect myself watching more in the...
Dario Argento began as a screenwriter, penning (along with Bernardo Bertolucci) the Sergio Leone masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). After its release, Argento wrote and directed The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), an international hit that began his legendary career as master of the thriller (with films like Deep Red and Tenebre) and horror (Suspiria, Inferno), as well as fusions of the two (Phenomena). His often disturbing and horrific films possess a transcendent visual beauty that combines with his talent for weaving supremely menacing mysteries to create waking celluloid nightmares that burn themselves into the audience's psyche.
[bio courtesy of Daniela Tully]
No wonder Argento is referred to as the Italian Hitchcock. This is the first of his works I have got around to, and I expect myself watching more in the...
The film that kicked off a volcanic spate of similarly themed gialli, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is a remarkable debut and one of the best gialli ever filmed....
Fooled me! I watched ever so carefully, but was sufficiently distracted by other "clues" left to be discovered, that I got hopelessly lost. The master has my respect and admiration....
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage may not be as visually inventive as Suspiria, but it's more unpredictable and suspenseful and a pretty remarkable first film by Argento.
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