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When: November 29, 2022 at 7:30pm - Where: The Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St, San Francisco, CA - What: Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin Performs the Live Score to Suspiria, Celebrating the 45th anniversary of Dario Argento's iconic film Composer Claudio Simonetti has written and recorded some of the most influential soundtracks in horror, including Dawn...

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Dear Shaded Viewers, Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà announce Beware of Dario Argento: A 20-Film Retrospective, from June 17-29. After three decades of collaboration, the two institutions join forces once again, to co-present the twenty-film retrospective of the iconic Italian horror director’s influential feature films, 17 of them premiering...

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Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s 20th movie, Dark Glasses—his first feature in 10 years—will be arriving on Shudder this fall. While we wait (and feverishly hope it’s a return to form after 2012's regrettable Dracula 3D), we’re looking back at 10 films that have defined his career so far. Fans of Argento—who also wrote, co-wrote, or adapted th...

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Here's a match made in synth heaven (or possibly hell) — French touch masters Daft Punk are joining forces with giallo film master Dario Argento to score his next project. Argento is set to direct a new film called Occhiali Neri (or, in English, Black Glasses). The project will star his daughter, Asia Argento. Speaking with Repubblica [via The Film...

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Early in Dario Argento’s first feature film, 1970’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, a handsome American writer strolling around Rome at night stumbles upon a murder that is already underway. The writer, played by Tony Musante, rushes to save the red-haired beauty struggling to fight off a shadowy, knife-wielding assailant inside an overly lit ar...

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Many of us spend the Halloween season revisiting our favorite horror movies or tracking down hidden gems. Often, our watch lists are filled with the familiar names of directors who have shaped the genre from North America: Carpenter, Craven, Cronenberg, Romero. But the release this weekend of Luca Guadagnino’s remake of “Suspiria” recalls another g...

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When it comes to Dario Argento, the stylist supreme of horror cinema, one might first think of an insidious mood, of piercingly intense colors, of a scrap of haunting music or a set piece in which the camera sets off on its own inexplicable course or an act of violence at once shocking, sensuous, and beautiful. Argento, who came to the director’s c...

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