Current Issue
Mario Bava’s 40th Anniversary
We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the death of Italy’s genre/filone maestro, Mario Bava. Fans of Mario Bava will be fascinated by Curti’s wide-ranging overview of the literary references, citations and influences in the films of Mario Bava. Influences that range from more refined literature (Nikolai Gogol, Aleksei Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Pierre Klossowski, Mérimée) to more populist fiction (Agathe Christie, Rod Serling, Hillary Waugh).
In this issue
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A Private Fear of the Unknown: Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava, 1965)
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Forty years without Bava: myths and discoveries by Alberto Pezzotta
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“La donna è mobile…” Mario Bava and the Eternal Feminine
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Roberto Curti & Blood and Black Lace (Sei donne per l’assassino (1964, Mario Bava)
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One, No One and One Hundred Thousand The “Man Without a Face” in 6 donne per l’assassino and its many incarnations
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Tales of Mystery and Just Plain Imagination: The literary sources of Mario Bava’s cinema
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Hatchet for the Honeymoon : Optic Zooms and the Haptic Hatchet
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Mario Bava’s La Maschera del Demonio: A Symphony of Camera Movement
Mario Bava (1914-1980)
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The Courage of Compassion – Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard
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Catastrophe (It Was Like a Movie): On The China Syndrome, Twister, The Perfect Storm, Titanic, Deep Impact, World Trade Center, and Contagion
Films give us a common reference point—we can discuss problems and arrive at solutions
