Dario Argento

Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other family members, including an aunt who told him frighting bedtime stories. Argento based most of his thriller movies on childhood trauma, yet his own--according to him--was a normal one. Along with tales spun by his aunt, Argento was impressed by stories from The Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe. Argento started his career writing for various film journal magazines while still in his teens attending a Catholic high school. After graduation, instead of going to college, Argento took a job as a columnist for the Rome daily newspaper "Paese Sera". Inspired by the movies, he later found work as a screenwriter and wrote several screenplays for a number of films, but the most important were his western collaborations, which included Cimitero senza croci (1969) and the Sergio Leone masterpiece C'era una volta il West (1968). He is known in italy as Master of Horror.

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Dario Argento

Filmografia

Amore all'ultimo morso

Tales of the Uncanny

Culto al terror

The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead

Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria

Close Up

Il mondo dell'orrore di Dario Argento

Ennio

Il cielo è sempre più blu

Non risponde più

Dario Argento: Panico

Linee d'ombra

Der Fall der vier Fliegen

Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

Hanging Shadows. Perspective on Italian Horror Cinema

CVLT

I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

Il mistero della cattedrale

Tripping The Dark Fantastic

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America

Nessuno siamo perfetti

Noi siamo cinema

DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

Profondo Argento

Blood on Méliès' Moon

Fear in the Dark

A Dark Fairy Tale

Of Flies and Maggots

Dario Argento: Maestro dell'Orrore

Il mondo di Dario Argento 3 - Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

Stephen King's World of Horror

Terreur et glamour : montée et déclin du studio Hammer

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

Inferno

Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano

Friedkin Uncut - Un diavolo di regista

Ban the Sadist Videos!

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

Masters of Horror

Du sang sur la neige

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist

The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

All the Colors of Giallo

Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario?

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta

Tempus fugit

Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

L'ultimo uomo che dipinse il cinema

Suspiria

Profondo rosso

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

Opera

Tenebre

Alida

Le cinque giornate

Director: Dario Argento

Two Masters' Eyes

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

Tales Of The Cat

Out of the Shadows

Western all'italiana

Italian Kings Of B

Vortex

The Grand Opening

Dario Argento: Il mio cinema

Homo Cinematographicus

Titanus 1904

Quando all'inferno non ci sarà più posto

The Dark Fantastic