Archive for the ‘The Argento Shot’ Category
The Argento Shot: Everlasting Moments
Argento Shot: A butterfly's shadow in Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments
The Argento Shot: The Pumpkin Eater by Jack Clayton and Harold Pinter
A robotic moment for Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater
The Argento Shot
Bruce Campbell in Congo
What is an “Argento Shot?”
1. It’s the shot that makes a film worth watching, even if there are no other shots worth watching in the film.
2. There is always at least one such shot in a film.
3. I heard Dario Argento say this firsthand during his appearance at the 1994 Argento retrospective at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. It’s one of my favorite quotes (here).
4. I coined the phrase based on what Argento said, but I don’t know if anyone else has used it.
An example? Yes, they are a bit more than a shot, but my wife suggests Bruce Campbell’s cameos in Congo and Waxwork II: Lost in Time. (View the latter here.)
For more examples of Argento shots, click here.
