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«There was a scream of agonized finality, a veritable catharsis of the lungs, that made all the others before it seem like nothing at all. Mingled with it, and blurring it, quelling it at the end, came an impact of such violence that the whole door structure seemed to start with it from top to […]
Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione italiana. Colour Out of Space is a cross-pollination of the sensibilities of its director, the South African Richard Stanley, and those of American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft. For the last thirty years, Stanley’s has come to be known as a distinctly tactile fiction -often […]
Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione italiana. In September 1980, American film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert appeared on an episode of their show Sneak Previews, where they speculated as to the cause of the profusion of what would eventually be known as the slasher film in the last third of […]
Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione italiana. Philippe Grandrieux’s Unrest forms the third part of a de facto triptych of films with White Epilepsy (2012) and Meurtrière (2015), occasionally called the ‘anxiety’ trio. While the film is part of a sequence, it is not by necessity a ‘conclusion,’ since to view the triptych chronologically as […]
La prigione dell’immagine. Spazi claustrofobici nel cinema d’autore contemporaneo
In Suspiria [id., Luca Guadagino, 2018], il recente remake dell’omonimo capolavoro di Dario Argento, assistiamo ad una sequenza che, come suggerisce Alberto Libera su queste pagine, riscrive idealmente quella celeberrima della danza in Scarpette rosse [The Red Shoes, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946]1. Si tratta di una delle prime scene «shockanti» del film: quasi un presagio dell’apoteosi […]