Browsing: Stelvio Cipriani

One of several ‘animal-in-the-title’ cash-ins released in the wake of Dario Argento’s box-office smash The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, THE IGUANA WITH THE TONGUE OF FIRE is a gloriously excessive giallo that boasts a rogues gallery of perverse characters; violent, fetishized murders, and one of the genre’s most nonsensical, red-herring laden…

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THE NIGHT CHILD *** Italy / UK 1975 Dir: Massimo Dallamano. 90 mins A modest but haunting picture from the highly talented director of WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? set to a typically beautiful, bewitching score by Stelvio Cipriani. Documentary filmmaker Richard Johnson, working on a project about “diabolical…

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