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Dario Argento |
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| 03/12/2007 |
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Dario Argento (Rome, 1940) worked as a film critic for the daily newspaper Paese Sera and also wrote for Cahiers du Cinema. He began his film career writing the screenplays for Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? (1967) by Alberto Sordi; the spaghetti westerns Today It’s Me… Tomorrow It’s You! (1968) and Cemetery Without Crosses (1969); Sergio Leone’s masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); and Patroni Griffi’s dramatic One Night at Dinner (1969). His directing debut came in 1970 with Bird With the Glass Feathers – featuring Enrico Maria Salerno and Tony Musante, music by Ennio Morricone and cinematography by Vittorio Storaro – which immediately marked him as one of Italy’s most promising filmmakers. His following films were The Cat o’ Nine Tails (1971) and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971). His friendship with Nanni Balestrini inspired him to make The Five Days (1974) with Adriano Celentano, which was followed by his cult classic Deep Red (1975). His subsequent films continued between the lines of horror and thriller: Suspiria (1977) with Alida Valli, which is among the most loved horror films in the US; Inferno (1980), Under the Eyes of the Assassin (1982), Phenomena (1985) and Terror at the Opera (1987). In 1978, he was a producer on Dawn of the Dead by his friend George A. Romero, with whom he co-directed Two Evil Eyes in 1990. In 1992 he played a parademic in John Landis’ Innocent Blood and directed his daughter Asia for the first time, in Trauma. Since then, they have worked together in The Stendhal Syndrome (1996), The Phantom of the Opera (1998) and the recent The Third Mother (2007). Before this latest film, he made Sleepless (2000), The Card Player (2003) and Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005) and worked with John Carpenter and John Landis on the series Masters of Horror (2005-2006), directing the episodes “Jenifer” and “Pelts”. In 2008, the Pesaro Film Festival will dedicate its Special Event to a full retrospective of his work, accompanied by a series of publications.
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