Top 5 Argento Films
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DVDA_CHICK_19 — 21 years ago(January 04, 2005 07:37 AM)
- Suspiria
- Phenomena
- Opera
- The Stendal Syndrome
- Deep Red
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milesaugust — 19 years ago(April 24, 2006 03:34 PM)
I am a huge fan of Argentos work. Next to Martin Scorsese he is the director that has inspired a lot of my own short film work. I've realized though, when trying to show his flms to others, that I really don't think any one of his films is that good. The constant critisisms are true. Incoherent stories, bad writing, non existent direction of actors. It makes me wonder why I think he is so great. I've seen everything he has done, except for the old tv movies he did in the 70's, and it's that Argento creates great scenes in movies, even if the movies don't live up to the sum of their parts. For as many times as I've watched Suspiria, or Opera, or even Inferno, it's often hard to sit throught the entire film. So no one Argento film is in my list of of even 20 favorte movies, even though he is in my top three alongside Scorsese and Kurosawa as greatest directors.
So Top Five Argento Secenes.- Deep Red. Goblin blaring, extreme close up of dolls, knives, and mascara. Argento has arrived.This set up scene nefore the killing starts says, hold on to your seats, this is going to be something special, and something that you've never seen before. A legend is born. It is everything that is quintessential Argento. Great, driving, yet haunting music. Insane close up photography, and not being afarid to let the camera explore without feeling the need to jump quickly to the next scene.
- The now much copied, bullet through door form Opera. Classic
- The sequence from Inferno, with the flickering lights, opera blaring, gloved hand cutting heads off paper dolls, Gabriel Lavia walking in and out of darkness before meeting his doom, again.
- From Phenomena (Creepers), Boris running to Jennifer to save the day-oops! there goes his head in one of the greatest pieces of shock cut editing I've ever seen.
- The super high speed slo motion shot of the fatal car crash at the end of Four Flies on Grey Velvet. Again, something that just was not done at that time.
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teamgomez99 — 15 years ago(December 11, 2010 11:32 PM)
i agree with u, August. i like him too, yet not really a huge fan of any of his movies in particular. it seems we like him cause he can come up with cool stories, have great scores, murder scenes and cinematography. i love kurosawa too. for the classic masters, he is one of my favs. u should look more into early DePalma films. FAR superior to Argento and very similar, both telling stories with the camera and 16d0being majorly influenced by Hitchcock. id especially suggest Blow out. Also Dressed to Kill, Sisters, Body Double (very over the top and rediculous, yet one of my favs) raising caine or even the newer one Femme fatal, which wasn't great, but huge DePalma fans like myself can really appreciate. Even Phantom of the Paradise, however it does not fit into the category previously referenced. obviously his movies like carrie and scarface are wonderful too, but his old thrillers really make him one of my fav.
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Udo — 22 years ago(September 04, 2003 01:26 PM)
- DEEP RED
- SUSPIRIA
- TENEBRE
- THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE
- INFERNO
Anybody got any love for Stendhal Syndrome? That would be my #6 And when the hell is Four Flies coming out1c84 on DVD? I haven't seen that in 15 years
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Udo — 22 years ago(September 08, 2003 12:23 PM)
The first copy of Four Flies I bought back in the late 80's, was some guy videotaping a Japanese laser disc on his TV and the &^#@( even walked in front of it once!!!
You know, it's scary the number of times I have seen Argento's movies over the years! Even the lesser ones like 'Cat' and 'Trauma'. (In my little dark world, Phantom Of The Opera doesn't exist) I think 'Trauma' is the only one that actually gets worse the more you see it. And I defended that movie like hell when it first came out -
Spunkybutt69 — 22 years ago(October 07, 2003 08:30 PM)
I have only seen two of Dario Argento's Films, Suspiria, and Opera. This is because the video shops here in Australia well, within a half hour radius of my place, don't have them in store for rental. I managed to find a copy of Opera, and i was amazed. Having seen that, i brought Suspiria on blind faith because Opera was so good.
Suspiria really creeped me out with the music score, and being in 6.1 ES made it so much more chilling. I am ordering Phantom of the opera, Deep Red and Phenomena as soon as i can. So out of the two, it's hard to choose which one i like more. I think Suspiria for the music, and Opera for it's originality. I would have to say that they tie. I'm holding Dario Argento right up there with Wes Craven as the Best horror directors of all time. -
matt-282 — 22 years ago(November 19, 2003 10:01 PM)
This is my personal top Five of Dario Argento
- Suspiria
- Phenomena
- Deep Red
- Tenebre
- Inferno
However I also have the least favorite here are in my opinion, Argento's top Five worst. - Phantom of the Opera (1998)
- Sleepless
- Trauma
- Four Flies on Grey Velvet
- Opera
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skinmeister — 22 years ago(December 11, 2003 11:42 AM)
Here are mine:
- Phenomena
- Deep Red
- The Cat o' Nine Tails
- Suspiria
- Trauma / Sleepless
This selection may seem kind of unusual to many of you (except for the first two titles, of course) but I just can't help it!
The only Argento movie that I don't like at all is the abysmal "Phantom of the Opera".
Sadly I haven't been able to see "Four Flies on Grey Velvet", yet. Hopefully it'll be put on DVD soon ("Anchor Bay" - please read this!!!)