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MARIO BAVA:
All the Colours of the Dark
Tim Lucas
* The Complete Story of Mario Bava's life and career as director, cameraman and special effects artist.
* Interviews with more than 100 actors, co-workers, friends and family members.
* The Definitive Study of each of his films: production histories, cast biographies, critical analysis and video information.
* Never-before Published Photos, including the only colour shots taken on the set of La mashera del demonio/Black Sunday.
* Original Mario Bava Storyboards - including the boards for the unfilmed project Baby Kong.
* Original Mario Bava artwork - some in full colour!
* Bava's secret Filmography: his uncredited works as director, cameraman and special effects artist.
* Complete Videography and Discography.
* Eugenio Bava (Mario's father) Filmography.
Tim Lucas's massive critical biography - 1128 pages! - is the product of interviews with more
than 100 colleagues, friends and family members of legendary Italian cinematographer/director Mario Bava. After 32 years in the making, Lucas
explores in unprecedented detail the life and legacy of one of the most
original, influential and secretive genre filmmakers of the 20th century.
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Everything you always wanted to know about director Mario Bava..
(but were afraid you'd never see in print!)
Tim
Lucas's massive critical biography - 1128 pages! - is the product of
interviews with more
than 100 colleagues, friends and family members of legendary Italian
cinematographer/director Mario Bava. After 32 years in the making,
Lucas
explores in unprecedented detail the life and legacy of one of the most
original, influential and secretive genre filmmakers of the 20th
century.
Best
known as the maestro of many aggressively cinematic and candy-colored Italian
horror and fantasy films (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath, Danger: Diabolik), Bava spent the first twenty years of his career as one of Italy's leading
cinematographers, during which time he helped to cultivate the screen
personas of icons such as Gina Lollobrigida and Steve (Hercules) Reeves; he was the principal visionary behind the Golden
Age of Italian fantasy, which lasted from 1957 until his death in 1980.
In the course of his researches, Lucas discovered that Bava often contributed uncredited direction, photography or effects to the films of friends, and he provides chapters of documentation elucidating this 'secret filmography'. The result is not just the story of 'the supreme visual poet of the Italian gothic cinema' (Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror), but a staggering, 12lb labour of love, interweaving biography, history and criticism.
MARIO BAVA: All the Colors of the Dark
is 1128 full-colour art-paper pages, illustrated with over 1000 stills
and poster art from all over the world. Included are
never-before-published
family photos, documents and drawings by Bava himself, and an
eye-popping
array of images that giallo fans could only dream about, such as the
only colour shots
taken on the set of the classic La maschera del demonio (Black Sunday). The
extensive appendices include filmographies for Mario and his father Eugenio Bava,
international discography and videography, film title indexes, and a
generous gallery of storyboard art by Bava, including his complete art for an
unproduced 1970s project, Baby Kong.
Introduction by Martin Scorsese/Foreword by Riccardo Freda
Hemlock Price: £199.95
(plus FREE delivery)
Expensive? - Yes. But for that price, you get a unique, one-off, hardcover coffee table-sized book (twice as thick as the average telephone directory), crammed with every known detail about one of the greatest names in horror-fantasy cinema spread over 1128 full-colour glossy pages!! Don't miss out on this rare collector's item..
REVIEWS:
'Exhaustive, perceptive.. This book deserves a place on the bookshelves of all serious film lovers.' --Martin Scorsese.
'It's
absolutely mind-boggling! I don't know what Mario Bava would have made of all
this, but wherever he is, he must be blushing Technicolor crimson.. and very
proud.' --Joe Dante
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