James Schamus: Federico Fellini’s Toby Dammit and Dario Argento’s Suspiria

James Schamus: Federico Fellini’s Toby Dammit and Dario Argento’s Suspiria

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Guillermo Del Toro in attendance! “We tend to cordon off Fellini into an auteur ghetto that separates him from much of Italian and world cinema pop culture. But by pairing Toby Dammit with Suspiria, we can see immediately the debt both Fellini and Argento owe to pulp giallo fiction and movies, blurring the boundaries between high and low that continue to make a full appreciation of Fellini difficult.” —James Schamus
Guillermo Del Toro in attendance!

“We tend to cordon off Fellini into an auteur ghetto that separates him from much of Italian and world cinema pop culture. But by pairing Toby Dammit with Suspiria, we can see immediately the debt both Fellini and Argento owe to pulp giallo fiction and movies, blurring the boundaries between high and low that continue to make a full appreciation of Fellini difficult.”—James Schamus

James Schamus is the screenwriter of The Ice Storm, Ride With the Devil and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Toby Dammit and Suspiria play together for a single price.



Films in James Schamus: Federico Fellini’s Toby Dammit and Dario Argento’s Suspiria

    • Toby Dammit

    • Guillermo Del Toro in attendance! Fellini’s wickedly funny and strikingly stylized contribution to the Edgar Allan Poe anthology film Spirits of the Dead transforms the dream world of La Dolce Vita into a nightmare.

    • Suspiria

    • Guillermo Del Toro in attendance! The most celebrated film of giallo maestro Dario Argento follows a young American ballet student who lands in a coven of witches with a penchant for human sacrifice.