On Oct 31, 12:49 pm, "Avoid normal situations."
<byend.removethisbityousillyper... RemoveThis @eskimo.com> wrote:
> No, I don't mean to ask. I mean the Dario Argento movie with that title.
>
> This is the story of a film student who digs The Master (among other old-
> time filmmakers) who finds himself involved in an actual murder mystery. It
> *is* kind of neat how the plot is set up so that many of Hitch's classics are
> evoked... many rather subtly, so that you have to be a movie nerd to get it.
> Unfortunately, as a thriller, this is quite dull, and way below par for
> Argento.
> Over on alt.horror they've been saying that Dario has lost his touch for a
> long time now -- 20 years or more. I think I'm beginning to believe them.
Its style over substance. DYLH is shot like a student film, most of it
with a wide lens, and its alot of long master scenes, and establishing
shots, and there is really not a whole lot of coverage if any in most
scenes, single angle, next scene and so on. The soundtrack is all over
the place, its gotta alot of Psycho/Friday the 13th style choppy
strings stuff and some Italian synthesizer sounds mixed in. DYLH had
to be dirt cheap to shoot. I wont pretend to know anything about the
politics of Italian filmmaking so who knows why DYLH looks like a very
cheap 80's movie and at times looks like 70's xxxx with the hard
shadows.
As for Argento, I dug on La Terza Madre, but those giallo movies are
not for everybody. You definitely can't recommend one to a civilian
American that is used to alot of camera work and editing. Its just a
different type of cinema.
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