Once he started making films of his own in the 1970s, he garnered global success. Born in Rome to a film producer father (Salvatore Argento) and photographer mother (Elda Luxardo), he started out as a film critic in high school and then got into screenwriting, working on Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968. (In 2018, Luca Guadagnino directed a remake of the film starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton.)Īrgento helped popularize the pulpy “giallo” subgenre of horror filmmaking and is often called “the master of horror films.” His most well-known films include The Bird with the Crystal Plumage from 1970, his first film, and Deep Red from 1975. He’s best known for his supernatural horror film Suspiria, which he directed in 1977, based on an eerie German dance school that possesses its students and teachers. It isn’t just blood and suspense but using Alfred Hitchcock-esque camera compositions to tell the story through clever suggestions (alongside some gore and mind-bending plot twists, too, of course).
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Argento, now 81 years old, will be in attendance for some of the screenings in New York.Īrgento is a pioneer of the psychological thriller, and he set the bar for how intelligent a horror movie should be, going beyond your typical gore. The retrospective is co-presented by the Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà, a film studio in Rome that restored 17 of Argento’s films in 4K. The Italian filmmaker has created over 30 films since his start in 1970, and now, his work is being showcased in a retrospective at the Lincoln Center in New York for Beware of Dario Argento: A 20-Film Retrospective, from June 17 to 29. If anyone is a master of making twisted movies that leave you terrified, it’s Dario Argento.
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