"Dario Argento’s belated ‘Three Mothers’ trilogy closer disinters a past with which it cannot compete, while ushering in a new, ambiguous dawn": MOTHER OF TEARS (2007) screens 6.40pm NFT2 at #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/mother-of-tears-2007/

Adolescents, insects, and the evolution of the giallo form: PHENOMENA (CREEPERS) (1985), Dario Argento's favourite of his own films, is "a phantasmagorical horror headtrip truly worth going ape about". 3.50pm at NFT2, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/phenomena-aka-creepers-1985/

"Dario Argento's late-era, high-stakes, subpar giallo brings a poker face to its murderous (world wide) web of intrigue": THE CARD PLAYER (IL CARTAIO, 2004) screens 6.20pm tonight at NFT3, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2023/05/20/the-card-player-il-cartaio-2004/

"Dario Argento's late-era, high-stakes, subpar giallo brings a poker face to its murderous (world wide) web of intrigue": THE CARD PLAYER (IL CARTAIO, 2004) screens 8.30pm tonight at NFT2, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2023/05/20/the-card-player-il-cartaio-2004/

"Dario Argento’s belated ‘Three Mothers’ trilogy closer disinters a past with which it cannot compete, while ushering in a new, ambiguous dawn": MOTHER OF TEARS (2007) screens 8.40pm at NFT3, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/mother-of-tears-2007/

"Dario Argento’s return to giallo was also a sophisticated staging of both the genre and his part in it as atrocity artist": TENEBRAE (1982) screens 8.50pm at NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2021/04/18/tenebrae-aka-tenebre-aka-unsane-1982/

"Maybe a bit too good. Too clean, yes, too precise. Too… formal. It should be more trashy." Dario Argento's giallo hall of mirrors DEEP RED (1975) comes painted in many colours. Screens 6.10pm at NFT1, #BFISouthbank for #ArgentoSeason
https://projectedfigures.com/2022/12/21/deep-red-profondo-rosso-1975/

"a Marienbad-like labyrinth of winding corridors, false paths, hidden chambers and fragmentary narratives designed to entrap us in a web of confusion and contradiction": Suspiria's sequel INFERNO (1980) screens 8.45pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/inferno-1980/

"a mesmerising, if confounding, danse macabre that treads that strange terrain between the psychological and the magical": Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA (1977), screens 6.10pm this evening, NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2018/04/12/suspiria-1977-2

Adolescents, insects, and the evolution of the giallo form: PHENOMENA (CREEPERS) (1985), Dario Argento's favourite of his own films, is "a phantasmagorical horror headtrip truly worth going ape about". 8.45pm at NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/phenomena-aka-creepers-1985

Nine disparate leads, and lots of blind alleys: Dario Argento's THE CAT O' NINE TAILS (1971) screens 8.45pm today at NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2018/04/24/the-cat-o-nine-tails-1971/

Some scars don't heal: Dario Argento's THE STENDHAL SYNDROME (1996) is a swooningly synaesthetic, twistily traumatised tale of art, abuse and identity.
Re-screens 6.20pm at NFT3, #BFISouthbank for #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2019/10/20/the-stendhal-syndrome-la-sindrome-di-stendhal-1996/

Expressionist insanity: in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET, "...there are images that will burn themselves right onto your retina, if not scar the 'grey velvet' of your brain." My favourite Argento screens again, 5.40pm NFT1, #BFISouthbank #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/four-flies-on-grey-velvet-1971/

"Maybe a bit too good. Too clean, yes, too precise. Too… formal. It should be more trashy."
Dario Argento's giallo hall of mirrors DEEP RED (1975) comes painted in many colours. Screens 8.40pm at NFT2, #BFISouthbank for #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2022/12/21/deep-red-profondo-rosso-1975/

Some scars don't heal: Dario Argento's THE STENDHAL SYNDROME (1996) is a swooningly synaesthetic, twistily traumatised tale of art, abuse and identity. Screens 6.05pm at NFT2, #BFISouthbank for #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2019/10/20/the-stendhal-syndrome-la-sindrome-di-stendhal-1996/

Luis Buñuel's surreal class satire THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972) serves up "something deliciously funny, but bitter in its aftertaste."
Screens 8.55pm tonight at NFT1, #BFISouthbank. Full review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie

Expressionist insanity: in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET, "...there are images that will burn themselves right onto your retina, if not scar the 'grey velvet' of your brain."
My favourite Argento screens 8.30pm at NFT1, #BFISouthbank for #ArgentoSeason https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/four-flies-on-grey-velvet-1971

"naïve, but macabre at the same time": Dario Argento's directorial debut THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970) takes a reflexive look at violent art and its effects.
Opens BFI's #ArgentoSeason, 6.10pm this evening at NFT3, #BFISouthbank https://projectedfigures.com/2018/06/03/the-bird-with-the-crystal-plumage-1970/

"A labyrinthine enigma of chillingly perfect construction." Unreservedly one of my favourite films of all time, Alain Resnais' masterful LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD (1961) screens 8.45pm tonight at NFT1, #BFISouthbank https://projectedfigures.com/2013/10/18/last-year-in-marienbad-1961/

"Working undercover as a kidnap thriller, Kurosawa’s tale of moral contrasts never ceases to grip": the unmissable HIGH AND LOW (1963) screens today, 6pm at NFT1, #BFISouthbank, with intro by #Kurosawa season co-curator Ian Haydn Smith https://projectedfigures.com/2020/05/12/high-and-low-tengoku-to-jigoku-1963/