Italian Directors - Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Italian Directors - Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pasolini Set: Volume 1 Love Meetings/Oedipus Rex/Porcile Pier Paolo Pasolini This three-DVD set collects three of legendary Italian director Pier Palo Pasolini's films into one package. Included are the witty and sensual, Love Meetings (1964, 90 mins.), his adaptation of the classic Greek play, Oedipus Rex (1967, 110 mins.) and the beautifully strange, grotesque parable, Porcile (Pigsty) (1969, 99 mins.); includes the short film, Pasolini, A Life. A must for any fan of Italian cinema. Italy, 1964/1967/1969, 299 mins. DVD $99.95

Pasolini Set: Volume 2 Accattone!/The Hawks and the Sparrows/The Gospel According to St. Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini Three films from acclaimed Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini are collected in this exclusive three-DVD set. Pasolini's debut, Accattone! (1961, 120 mins.), is a milestone in Italian filmmaking. A parable of redemption set in the slums of Rome, the film follows the thief, beggar and pimp, Accattone (Franco Citti), as he tries to reform his love, Stella. The Hawks and the Sparrows (1964, 88 mins.) is a powerful, tragicomic fable which shows two delightful innocents caught between the Church and Marxism. Pasolini's moving epic, The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1965, 136 mins.), uses non-actors, rugged Southern Italian landscapes and towns, cinema-verite techniques, and expressive close-ups to present an anguished, determined Christ. All three films in Italian with English subtitles. Includes the short, Pasolini, A Life. Italy, 1961-1965, 344 mins. DVD $99.95

Accattone! Pier Paolo Pasolini This is simply one of the most important films of the last 40 years, and a milestone in Italian filmmaking. A parable of redemption set in the slums of Rome, Accattone "The Scrounger" (Franco Citti) lives as a thief, beggar and pimp. He's in love with Stella, tries to reform her, but fails. "Accattone!, the debut film of Pier Paolo Pasolini, is notable for its rough-edged style, its cool, unhysterical portrait of corruption, cruelty, and violence, and its quiet lyricism marked one of the most significant directorial debuts of the sixties." (Georges Sadoul). In Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1961, 120 mins. DVD $44.95

The Decameron Pier Paolo Pasolini The first part of Pasolini's "trilogy of life" (followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights) is based on the ribald tales of Boccaccio, which deal with human sensuality and artistic creation. Pasolini has refashioned the 100 tales into a collection of 11 sketches that are at the same time erotic, political, humorous and autobiographical. Pasolini himself appears in the role of the painter Giotto. The DVD is letterboxed, 16x9 widescreen, and ncludes optional French and Spanish subtitles, original theatrical trailer. In Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1971, 111 mins. DVD $37.95

The Gospel According to St. Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini Non-actors, rugged Southern Italian landscapes and towns, cinema-verite techniques, and expressive close-ups are some of the elements of Pasolini's moving, sacred and mythic epic. His Christ is anguished, determined, a peripatetic preacher against the afflictions of social injustice, whose miracles are matter-of-fact. In Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1964, 136 mins. DVD $44.95

The Hawks and the Sparrows Pier Paolo Pasolini A wildly comic fable, with the great Italian stone-faced clown Toto playing Everyman and Ninetto Davoli, his good natured but empty-headed son. Pasolini uses a comic crow, which philosophizes amusingly and pointedly about the passing scene, as a counterpoint to the performers, representing humanity, as they progress down the road of life. The result is a major Pasolini film and a powerful, tragic fable that shows two delightful innocents caught, like many Italians, between the Church and Marxism. "Complex, mystical and fascinating" (New York Times). The DVD is letterboxed, and includes the short featurette, Pasolini, A Life. In Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1964, 88 mins. DVD $44.95

Love and Anger Bernardo Bertolucci/Jean-Luc Godard/Pier Paolo Pasolini/Carlo Lizzani/Marco Bellocchio Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carlo Lizzani, and Marco Bellocchio each directed segments of this challenging portmanteau film, which tells thematically linked stories of love, anger, and indifference occurring within the crucible of the turbulent Vietnam era. From an avant-garde theatre troupe's daring performance to a mock debate that spills over into violence, each segment explores the heightened actions and emotions that characterized a volatile era. The DVD is a 2 disc set, and includes interviews with Marco Bellocchio and Carlo Lizzani, assistant director Maurizio Ponzi, and editor Roberto Perpignani, poster and still gallery, talent bios and liner notes, and more. With Nino Castelnuovo, Catherine Jourdan, Tom Baker, Julian Beck, and more. In Italian with English subtitles. Italy/France, 1969, 102 mins. DVD $44.95

Love Meetings (Comizi D'Amore) Pier Paolo Pasolini A witty and sensual investigation of sex in Italy, including impressive appearances by famed author Alberto Moravia and noted psychologist Cesare Musatti, conducted by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini appears as the interviewer with a wide range of individuals who share their tales of love - prostitution, homosexuality, marital and non-marital liaisons. The DVD is letterboxed, and includes the short featurette, Pasolini, A Life. Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1964, 90 mins. DVD $44.95

Mamma Roma Pier Paolo Pasolini Anna Magnani gives a terrific performance in the title role of this key film. It was Pasolini's second feature but it is rarely seen. The story revolves around a former prostitute, played by Magnani, who gets a new chance for a different life. She does her best to help her son, Ettore, get ahead. He is mesmerized, however, by the evils of the big city, so she makes one last desperate attempt to get him a respectable job. This two-DVD set is a Criterion Collection edition, and includes interviews with Bernardo Bertolucci, Tonino Delli Colli, and Enzo Siciliano; the documentary, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Ivo Barnabo Micheli, 1995, 55 mins.); the Pasolini short, La Ricotta (1963, 35 mins.), about a director who sets out to make a film about the Passion of Jesus; the original theatrical trailer; an essay by novelist/critic Gary Indiana; a poster gallery; and more. Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1963, 110 mins. DVD $59.95

Oedipus Rex Pier Paolo Pasolini One of the great films by Pasolini, which adds a prologue and epilogue to the play by Sophocles. The film adds much psychoanalytic insight to the Sophocles theme; Pasolini's intent was, he said, "to make a kind of completely metaphoric - and therefore mythicized - autobiography; and second, to confront both the problem of psychoanalysis and the problem of the myth." Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1967, 110 mins. DVD $44.95

Pigsty (I Porcile) Pier Paolo Pasolini A remarkable, late-period work from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pigsty (I Porcile) brilliantly interweaves two storylines. In the first, a man wanders a medieval, war-ravaged countryside devouring the weak; in the second, a German youth's profound alienation leads him into a strange relationship with a group of pigs. With Jean-Pierre Leaud, Ugo Tognazzi, Pierre Clementi and Anne Wiazemsky. Letterboxed. Italian with English subtitles. USA, 1969, 100 mins. DVD $44.95

Teorema Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini's breakthrough film, predicated on the theorem that "anything done by the bourgeoisie, however sincere and profound, and noble, is on the wrong track." Into the home of a classic bourgeois family walks in Terence Stamp, a stranger. Each one of the family--mother, father, son, daughter, maid--seeks and finds in the stranger a catalyst for the fulfillment of desire denied within the confines of the family structure. "Liberated thus by a moment of authenticity, each is left, on the visitor's departure, with a personal kind of madness, stripped naked in a symbolic desert." The DVD is letterboxed and includes Pasolini and Death: A Purely Intellectual Thriller documentary (53 mins.). In Italian with English subtitles. Italy 1968 93 mins. DVD $44.95