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In 1970, young first-time director Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria) made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage – a film which redefined the 'giallo' genre of murder-mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.
Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante, We Own the Night), an American writer living in Rome, inadvertently witnesses a brutal attack on a woman (Eva Renzi, Funeral in Berlin) in a modern art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows increasingly obsessed with the incident. Convinced that something he saw that night holds the key to identifying the maniac terrorising Rome, he launches his own investigation parallel to that of the police, heedless of the danger to both himself and his girlfriend Giulia (Suzy Kendall, Spasmo)…
A staggeringly assured debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage establishes the key traits that would define Argento's filmography, including lavish visuals and a flare for wildly inventive, brutal scenes of violence. With sumptuous cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and a seductive score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in the West), this landmark film has never looked or sounded better in this new, 4K-restored edition from Arrow Films!
Special Features
- Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release
- Standard Definition DVD presentation
- Original mono Italian and English soundtrack
- English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
- New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
- The Power of Perception, a new visual essay on the cinema of Dario Argento by Alexanda Heller-Nicholas, author of Devil's Advocates: Suspiria and Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study
- New analysis of the film by critic Kat Ellinger
- New interview with writer/director Dario Argento
- New interview with actor Gildo Di Marco (Garullo the pimp)
- Eva's Talking, an archival interview with actor Eva Renzi (Monica Ranieri)
- Original Italian and international theatrical trailers
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp
- Arrow Video
- 98 Minutes Approx
- 18
- 2.35:1
- Italian / English
- 1
- Arrow Video
- Dario Argento
- Tony Musante
- Suzy Kendall
- Eva Renzi
- English / English SDH
- B
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Arrow Films
In 1970, young first-time director Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria) made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage – a film which redefined the 'giallo' genre of murder-mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.
Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante, We Own the Night), an American writer living in Rome, inadvertently witnesses a brutal attack on a woman (Eva Renzi, Funeral in Berlin) in a modern art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows increasingly obsessed with the incident. Convinced that something he saw that night holds the key to identifying the maniac terrorising Rome, he launches his own investigation parallel to that of the police, heedless of the danger to both himself and his girlfriend Giulia (Suzy Kendall, Spasmo)…
A staggeringly assured debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage establishes the key traits that would define Argento's filmography, including lavish visuals and a flare for wildly inventive, brutal scenes of violence. With sumptuous cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and a seductive score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in the West), this landmark film has never looked or sounded better in this new, 4K-restored edition from Arrow Films!
Special Features
- Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release
- Standard Definition DVD presentation
- Original mono Italian and English soundtrack
- English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
- New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
- The Power of Perception, a new visual essay on the cinema of Dario Argento by Alexanda Heller-Nicholas, author of Devil's Advocates: Suspiria and Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study
- New analysis of the film by critic Kat Ellinger
- New interview with writer/director Dario Argento
- New interview with actor Gildo Di Marco (Garullo the pimp)
- Eva's Talking, an archival interview with actor Eva Renzi (Monica Ranieri)
- Original Italian and international theatrical trailers
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp
- Arrow Video
- 98 Minutes Approx
- 18
- 2.35:1
- Italian / English
- 1
- Arrow Video
- Dario Argento
- Tony Musante
- Suzy Kendall
- Eva Renzi
- English / English SDH
- B
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What a debut
Argento managed to debut with a such an incredible movie one has to wonder how his movies lost the style and charm after the ones made in the nineties … Top cinematography and that lovely Morricone score make this a complete delight for the senses. The seventies were for sure his most accomplished decade and Arrow thank you for the gorgeous bluray. Wish there were even more extras as stories about how this type of cinema was made is never enough for me.Â
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'The Bird With The Crystal Plumage' soars majestically above the crowd!
Tastier than catsu curry, masterful mood maestro, Dario Argento's refined, razor-edged thriller 'The Bird With The Crystal Plumage' soars majestically above the crowd! The fledgling fearmaster exploded on the 70s scream scene with his fiendishly gripping, gloriously glamorous Giallo classic that is sure to make vintage thriller fans go beak at the knees! More peacock than Hitchcock, there's no mystery why this beguilingly sinister, stylishly orchestrated shocker shredded the competition! Dario's dazzling debut deservedly make him a star, and, rapturously, his eternally scintillating 'The Bird With Crystal Plumage' has lost none of its lustre, not only visually exquisite, the legendary Ennio Morricone's iconic, sonically sumptuous score will make your heart soar! In one fateful stroke, Argento black-handedly transformed terror sinema with his immortal masterpiece, and the film's immaculate HD restoration guarantees that future generations of salaciously sin-seeking cinephiles will be darkly mesmerized by its bravura, blood-burnished allure!
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A release that does the film justice
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage might be my favorite film by my favorite director of all time. Whenever someone asks me why Arrow is my favorite Blu-Ray label, I show them this release. The transfer looks great and it's loaded with special features. Since I am a massice Giallo fan, it's great to see that a label like Arrow puts a lot of effort in releasing Blu-Rays of films that might have been forgotten. Definitely getting the 4K as well, as I heard that transfer is even better.
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