#4 mosche di velluto grigio

[uspiria]

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) dir. Dario Argento

[italianhorrors]

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) dir. Dario Argento

[bens-things]

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) dir. Dario Argento

[alexhorrorfilms]

4 mosche di velluto grigio (Четыре мухи на сером бархате)

Завершение “Зверинной трилогии”. Ранний Ардженто великолепен даже не в лучших работах.

то тот самый фильм:

в котором одну из жертв убивают уколом в сердце,

в котором Бад Спенсер играет уличного философа Бога,

в котором герои отправляются на выставку гробов,

[manitat]

Tonći Kožul: Najbolji filmovi 70-ih...

The Adventurers

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)

Airport

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Alien

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf)

All Screwed Up (Tutto a posto e niente in ordine)

All That Jazz

All the President's Men

Amarcord

American Graffiti

The Amityville Horror

The Amusement Park

The Anderson Tapes

...And Justice for All

Annie Hall

Apocalypse Now

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye)

Assault on Precinct 13

At Long Last Love

Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)

The Baby

Bad Company

Badlands

The Bad News Bears

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Bananas

Barry Lyndon

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

A Bay of Blood (Ecologia del delitto)

The Beguiled

Being There

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Between the Lines

The Big Boss

The Big Bus

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

The Black Windmill

Blazing Saddles

Boxcar Bertha

Bound for Glory

The Boy Friend

The Boys in the Band

Breaking Away

Brewster McCloud

A Bridge Too Far

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

The Brink's Job

The Brood

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Cabaret

California Split

California Suite

The Candidate

Carnal Knowledge

Carrie

The Cars That Ate Paris

Car Wash

The Cassandra Crossing

Catch-22

The Cat o' Nine Tails (Il gatto a nove code)

Céline and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau)

Charley Varrick

Chilly Scenes of Winter

Chinatown

Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette)

A Clockwork Orange

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Coffy

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Coming Home

The Conformist (Il conformista)

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

The Conversation

Convoy

Cooley High

The Crazies

Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)

Crimes of the Future (1970.)

Cross of Iron

Cry Uncle!

Daisy Miller

Damien: Omen II

Dark Star

Dawn of the Dead

Day for Night (La Nuit américaine)

Days of Heaven

Death on the Nile (1978.)

Death Race 2000

Death Wish

The Deep

Deep Red (Profondo rosso)

The Deer Hunter

Deliverance

Dersu Uzala

Despair

Desperate Living

The Devils

Diamonds Are Forever

Dirty Harry

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Dodes'ka-den

Dog Day Afternoon

Don't Look Now

Dracula (1979.)

The Driver

Duel

Duelle

The Duellists

Dusty and Sweets McGee

Earthquake

Eaten Alive

Effi Briest

The Electric Horseman

El Topo

The Enforcer

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)

Enter the Dragon

Equus

Eraserhead

Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex

Every Which Way but Loose

The Exorcist

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Eyes of Laura Mars

Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte)

Family Plot

Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)

Fast Company

Fat City

The Fate of Lee Khan

Female Trouble

Fellini's Casanova (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini)

F for Fake

Fiddler on the Roof

F.I.S.T.

Fist of Fury

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (4 mosche di velluto grigio)

The Four Musketeers

Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit)

Foxy Brown

Freebie and the Bean

The French Connection

Frenzy

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Funny Lady

Fun with Dick and Jane (1977.)

The Fury

Ganja & Hess

Gates of Heaven

The Getaway

Get Carter

Getting Straight

Get to Know Your Rabbit

Gimme Shelter

The Godfather

The Godfather Part II

Gods of the Plague (Götter der Pest)

The Goodbye Girl

Good Guys Wear Black

Go Tell the Spartans

The Great Waldo Pepper

Grease

The Green Room (La Chambre verte)

Grey Gardens

Hair

Halloween

The Harder They Come

Hard Times

Harlan County, USA

Harold and Maude

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Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas)

Heaven Can Wait

Hester Street

High Anxiety

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Hi, Mom!

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Hooper

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I clowns

Images

India Song

The In-Laws

Interiors

Izbavitelj

Jabberwocky

Jaws

Jaws 2

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Jeremiah Johnson

The Jerk

Jesus Christ Superstar

Je tu il elle

Joe

Junior Bonner

Kelly's Heroes

The Kentucky Fried Movie

The Killer Elite

Killer of Sheep

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

King Kong (1976.)

Klute

Kramer vs. Kramer

The Kremlin Letter

The Landlord

The Last Detail

The Last House on the Left

The Last Movie

The Last of Sheila

The Last Picture Show

Last Tango in Paris

The Last Waltz

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The Late Show

Legend of the Mountain

Lenny

Leo the Last

Les Rendez-vous d'Anna

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

The Life of Brian

Lisa and the Devil

Lisice

Little Big Man

A Little Romance

Live and Let Die

The Long Goodbye

Love and Anarchy (Film d'amore e d'anarchia)

Love and Death

Love on the Run (L'amour en fuite)

Love Story

La Luna

Macbeth (1971.)

Magnum Force

Mandingo

Manhattan

The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Man Who Loved Women (L'Homme qui aimait les femmes)

The Man Who Would Be King

The Man with the Golden Gun

The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)

Martin

M*A*S*H

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Mean Streets

The Mechanic

The Merchant of Four Seasons (Händler der vier Jahreszeiten)

Mikey and Nicky

Minnie and Moskowitz

Mirror (Zerkalo)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Moonraker

The Mother and the W*ore (La maman et la putain)

Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel)

Mr. Majestyk

Multiple Maniacs

The Muppet Movie

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

My Little Loves (Mes Petites Amoureuses)

Nashville

National Lampoon's Animal House

Network

The New Centurions

A New Leaf

News from Home

New York, New York

Nickelodeon

A Night Full of Rain (La fine del mondo nel nostro...)

Night Moves

Noroît

North Dallas Forty

Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht)

Obsession

The Offence

Oh, God!

The Omen

The One and Only

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

De cierta manera (One Way or Another)

Opening Night

Orchestra Rehearsal (Prova d'orchestra)

Out 1: Noli me tangere

Paper Moon

The Parallax View

The Passenger (Professione: reporter)

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

A Perfect Couple

Performance

The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté)

Phantom of the Paradise

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Pink Flamingos

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Play It Again, Sam

The Poseidon Adventure

Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj

Quadrophenia

Quintet

Rabid

Raining in the Mountain

The Return of the Pink Panther

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Robin and Marian

Rock 'n' Roll High School

Rocky

Rocky II

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Rollerball

Roma (1972.)

Saint Jack

Sambizanga

Saturday Night Fever

Schlock

Scrooge

The Seduction of Mimi (Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore)

See No Evil

The Sentinel

Serpico

Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze)

Shaft

Shaft's Big Score!

Shaft in Africa

Shampoo

Shivers

The Shootist

Silent Movie

Silver Streak

Sisters

Slap Shot

Slaughterhouse-Five

Sleeper

Small Change (L'Argent de poche)

Smile (1975.)

Smokey and the Bandit

Solaris

Soleil Ô

Sorcerer

Soylent Green

The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena)

The Spy Who Loved Me

Stalker

A Star Is Born (1976.)

Start the Revolution Without Me

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Wars

The Sting

The Story of Adèle H. (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.)

Straw Dogs

Stroszek

The Sugarland Express

The Sunshine Boys

Superman

Suspiria

Sweet Movie

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Swept Away (Travolti da un insolito destino...)

Taking Off

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Taxi Driver

Telefon

The Tenant

Tess

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

That Obscure Object of Desire (French: Cet obscur objet du désir)

Thieves Like Us

The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation)

Three Days of the Condor

The Three Musketeers (1973.)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

THX 1138

Tko pjeva zlo ne misli

Tommy

Tora! Tora! Tora!

A Touch of Zen

Touki Bouki

The Towering Inferno

Tristana

The Turning Point

The Twelve Chairs (1970.)

Two English Girls (Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent)

Two-Lane Blacktop

Two Mules for Sister Sara

Up in Smoke

The Valiant Ones

Vanishing Point

Wake in Fright

Walkabout

Wanda

The Warriors

Watermelon Man

Wattstax

The Way of the Dragon

The Way We Were

A Wedding

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

What? (Che?)

What's Up, Doc?

Where's Poppa?

White Lightning

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

The Wicker Man

The Wild Child (L'Enfant sauvage)

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Wise Blood

The Wiz

A Woman Under the Influence

Woodstock

Woyzeck

W.R. - Misterije organizma

Young Frankenstein

Zabriskie Point

Zardoz

[sloshed-cinema]

Four Flies on Grey Velvet [4 mosche di velluto grigio] (1971)

Of all of his so-called “Animal Trilogy,” Four Flies on Grey Velvet is Argento’s most jarring, and not in a good way.  Pulp is never far from the mind in these gialli, and yet the earlier two entries and certainly later efforts manage to elevate that luridness, to find intrigue and interest and beauty in sequences and individual shot composition.  That’s not to say this is incompetent or lazy, it’s just much more… bizarre and erratic.  Some choices genuinely work: the intercutting between Roberto’s desperate drive to visit the private eye for the first time paired off with push-ins following up the stairs and up to Arrioso’s office in an interesting sort of visual bridge to convey the journey in an unconventional fashion aligned with Roberto’s desperation.  The eyeball doorknob even cheekily hints at the piece of evidence which will break the case open.  Darkly cheeky beats linger throughout.  Our heroes meet at a hilarious funerary exhibition selling everything from double coffins to strange avant-garde art-pieces wherein to spend the eternal slumber, and a would-be author friend regales the crowd with a treatment for a Horny Frankenstein story.  Argento is clearly not asleep at the wheel.  And yet throughout there are bizarre little jumps which call continuity into question, or even what is supposed to be the tone of a given scene.  Amelia the maid’s death is an ambiguously surreal affair, the disappearance of crowds and her panicked flight through a random hedgerow far more heightened and fantastical than anything else seen in the film thus far or after.  It’s lopsided, reaching out for balance, but there are glimmers.

Perhaps thrusting the film beyond the pale even moreso is the utterly baffling and egregious English dub.  It’s enough of a challenge for me to get through any Italian film of this era, given their propensity for filming the movie without sound and with each performer speaking their lines in their preferred language, and then fixing it all with a dub in post.  Even Fellini is difficult for me to watch for this exact baffling reason.  But the handling of spoken word in this film was on a whole other level, more worthy of a YouTube supercut of terrible English dubbing of anime than something to be released into theatres.  I’m not certain who I loved more: the flaming private eye who says “ooOOOhhhh” every three seconds, the hobo from the Bronx, Billy Bob Thornton as Jigo in Princess Mononoke, or Dollar Tree Jim Morrison who seems wholly apathetic to the fact he is the object of fixation for a psychopath.  They spared all expenses for the extras, who deliver their lines with the usual overemphasis of a person who gets one take and that’s it, trying to pack as much energy into the moment as possible, even if it’s for something as mundane as delivering mail.

THE RULES

SIP

Piano/harpsichord starts playing.

Kitty cat!

Arrioso touches Roberto.

The beheading dream is glimpsed.

BIG DRINK

Creepy mask time!

The sound suddenly drops out.

[ceteradesunt]

Four Flies on Grey Velvet, 4 mosche di velluto grigio (1971) dir. Dario Argento

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[365filmsbyauroranocte]

4 mosche di velluto grigio (Dario Argento, 1971)

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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)

[giallo-style]

4 MOSCHE DI VELLUTO GRIGIO 

or FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET

dir: Dario Argento

[a-horrible-way-to-dan]

4 Mosche Di Velluto Grigio (1971) - Dir: Dario Argento

[ulrichgebert]

Der putzige Schlagzeuger Roberto wird von einem geheimnisvollen Mann mit dunkler Sonnenbrille verfolgt, ersticht ihn versehentlich und wird seither mit Fotos und allerlei Hinweisen darauf verfolgt. Fast wirkt es, als wolle man ihn gezielt in den Wahnsinn treiben. Immer wenn man meint, zu wissen, wer dahintersteckt, wird der oder die Verdächtige zur Ablenkung grausam dahingemetzelt. Statt dem eingebrannten Bild des Mörders auf der Netzhaut des letzten Opfers, das moderne Technik endlich sichtbar machen kann, erscheinen 4 Fliegen auf grauem Samt. Es nicht die ausgefeilteste Krimihandlung, aber immerhin mit Musik von Ennio Morricone und schön 70es. Bud Spencer spielt Gott.

[psychodollyuniverse]

Dario Argento film posters

[justfilms]

4 mosche di velluto grigio - Dario Argento 1971 Tenebre - Dario Argento 1982

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Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Dario Argento