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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
"The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" (1970), directed by Dario Argento in his directorial debut, follows an American writer in Rome who witnesses an attempted murder and becomes obsessed with solving the case, a film widely credited with launching the giallo genre's modern golden era. Its commercial and critical success established the template that dozens of subsequent Italian filmmakers would follow throughout the 1970s: an amateur investigator, a black-gloved killer, and a plot built around a half-glimpsed traumatic image the protagonist must piece together. Its Ennio Morricone score, blending unsettling wordless vocals with the composer's characteristic melodic sensibility, became one of the most influential giallo soundtracks and helped establish the genre's now-signature musical style. Its combination of launching Argento's career and establishing the genre's foundational modern template has made "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" one of the most historically significant giallo films ever made.
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Opera
"Opera" (1987), directed by Dario Argento, follows a young understudy soprano stalked by an obsessive killer after she's forced into the lead role of a Verdi opera production following the star's accident, notable for its extended sequences filmed from inside an actual working opera house. Its recurring visual device of needles taped beneath the protagonist's eyes, forcing her to watch the killer's violence without being able to look away, became one of giallo cinema's most discussed and unsettling individual images, frequently cited in analyses of the genre's relationship to spectatorship. The film's elaborate crane and Steadicam work throughout the opera house setting demonstrated Argento's continued technical ambition even in the later, more divisive stretch of his directorial career following his most celebrated 1970s work. Its combination of its distinctive opera-house setting and its widely discussed visual set-pieces has made "Opera" one of the most stylistically ambitious later-period giallo films.
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