https://vo.rs/tags/pop-art/Latest from the Pop Art desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 28 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/danger-diabolik-bavas-pop-art-crime-fantasia/<p>For years the widest audience <em>Danger: Diabolik</em> ever reached met it as a punchline, the film being pulled apart in the final episode of <em>Mystery Science Theater 3000</em> in 1999. That is a strange fate for one of the most purely beautiful things Mario Bava ever made, and it says more about how the world lost track of Bava than about the film. Watch it clean, without the silhouettes and the wisecracks, and <em>Danger: Diabolik</em> reveals itself as a pop-art dream: a comic-book heist fantasia conjured, in 1968, out of coloured gels, forced perspective, a masterful cutting rhythm and almost no money at all.</p>Wed, 28 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000