Thought provoking pieces on the VRA

Or, how to help independent cinema and why it won't happen:

http://reformthevrauk.blogspot.com/2009/10/reform-uk-video-recordings-act-1984.html

http://jw48.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/heres-how-the-regional-screen-agencies-could-support-british-indie-films-at-no-cost/

Tenebre

Cristiano Berti works for channel 1. Does this equate to RAI 1 and the Christian Democrats?

Giallo

Giallo = Beauty Killer = The New York Ripper

Argento becomes Fulci?

A Fistful of Dollars

I know this is an apprentice work, which sees Leone trying out things without necessarily integrating them into a coherent whole.

But

God damn

He still framed like no-one else had done.

Similarly, I now wonder about the bad day for night shooting in the cemetery scene, and the apparent inability of the (dead) soldiers to hear what is going on around them: Does this signify that they are "playing at cowboys and indians," in a cinema-cinema way?

Mechanical Man

I am a mechanical man
A mechanical man
And I do the best I can
Because I have my family
I am a mechanical boy
I am my mother's toy

- Charles Manson, Mechanical Man

The dummy, or Carlo?

More doubling and foreshadowing in Deep Red

When Amanda Righetti is killed, her assassin first terrorises her with a classic giallo doll, held in place by a noose around its neck:



The doll then loses its head (or the head loses its body), just as will Carlo's mother in the finale:

Notes on the cinematographer, as done by Argento rather than Bresson

My mind wanders; the camera wanders