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Here are some stills from Argento's next film. Adrien Brody seems to be borrowing Pacino's latest look.

You really have it out for Al, man. Was 88 Minutes really that bad?

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Wow, great poster!

In agreement. That poster is awesome. I wonder if it was influenced by Andy Warhol's knife prints....

wow that is an awesome poster. Reminds me of Saul Bass. Just watched suspiria again last night, and i can't wait for this film... Looks great from the stills...

Basically the world would be a better place if every poster tried to emulate Saul Bass

domino harvey wrote:Basically the world would be a better place if every poster tried to emulate Saul Bass

Actually, i think the exact opposite is true

Then it's settled. Domino gets to run the world.

God, I hope it's better than the last couple I saw. I grew up watching (and loving) Argento and I fear seeing Mother Of Tears because I found Sleepless/Insomnia and The Card Player largely dreadful.

royalton wrote:God, I hope it's better than the last couple I saw. I grew up watching (and loving) Argento and I fear seeing Mother Of Tears because I found Sleepless/Insomnia and The Card Player largely dreadful.

I think it's largely the actor's he casts in his latest films, they simply CAN NOT act. The killer's voice in Sleepless was just painful to listen to.

New trailer.

Looks like an episode of CSI. Where on Earth did the hyper-luscious style of his seventies films go?

A relatively enthusiastic review from Michael Mackenzie's blog!

Giles wrote:

royalton wrote:God, I hope it's better than the last couple I saw. I grew up watching (and loving) Argento and I fear seeing Mother Of Tears because I found Sleepless/Insomnia and The Card Player largely dreadful.

I think it's largely the actor's he casts in his latest films, they simply CAN NOT act. The killer's voice in Sleepless was just painful to listen to.

Really? I've seen every Argento film and I can't think of any which has great acting.

I can't say much about his later films because I like all of them, not as well as his early ones but they are all watchable IMO.

Dylan wrote:Looks like an episode of CSI. Where on Earth did the hyper-luscious style of his seventies films go?

The Michael McKenzie blog notes a different cameraman.
Which begs the question of whether the Argento style was due to Argento or his cameramen.
Evidence of the last few movies (I haven't seen Giallo) suggests the latter.

HarryLong wrote:

Dylan wrote:Looks like an episode of CSI. Where on Earth did the hyper-luscious style of his seventies films go?

The Michael McKenzie blog notes a different cameraman.
Which begs the question of whether the Argento style was due to Argento or his cameramen.
Evidence of the last few movies (I haven't seen Giallo) suggests the latter.

Argento's films were never about the writing, but he used to have this astonishing eye for visuals, but now he's lazy in both departments. I'm sure DP Luciano Tovoli had a lot to due with the success of Suspiria and Inferno's visuals, but look at another Italian director who now has a different DP: Bertolucci (Argento's co-writer on West), who parted ways with Vittorio Storaro in 1993, but all of his films since then still look like "Bertolucci films," (same goes for Fellini and Antonioni after their DP Gianni Di Venanzo passed - Blow-Up and Toby Dammit both look like films of their's, even with different DPs) while Argento's later films just look, well, like TV movies. I think he just lost the flair.

I can't say much about his later films because I like all of them, not as well as his early ones but they are all watchable IMO.

Did you see Do You Like Hitchcock? It has a Pino Donaggio score, but other than that I think it's a disaster coming from an established filmmaker (though I bailed halfway through). If that's better than some of Argento's other films in the last twenty years, that's saying something.

while Argento's later films just look, well, like TV movies. I think he just lost the flair.

Possible, but I'm leaning toward the cameramen being more responsible for the so-called Agento look.
Maybe because I've never been all that whelmed by the films other than the photography and set design.

yeah I liked Do You Like Hitchcock as well. The only two I've disliked are Phantom of the Opera and Jenifer.

Variety is not a fan.

I saw it recently and was pleasantly surprised. Better than Mother of Tears, for sure. Probably his best since Sleepless.

Brody is brilliant, Seigner isn't quite as good, but the ending is fun at least.