Decameron (Motion picture) Racconti di Canterbury (Motion picture) Fiore delle mille e una notte (Motion picture) Arabian nights. Lost body of Alibech. Pasolini and the secret humiliation of Chaucer. Via Pasolini. Pasolini and the form of the city.
Notes:
Title from container. Decameron: Based on "The decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio. Canterbury tales: Based on "The Canterbury tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. Arabian nights: Based on a selection of stories from "The thousand and one nights" Decameron: Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Canterbury tales: Originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Arabian nights: Originally released as a motion picture in 1974. Accompanying booklet includes cast lists and credits for the three feature films and several essays by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Colin MacCabe. Supplements disc includes interviews with art director Dante Ferretti and composer Ennio Morricone, the 2005 documentary Via Pasolini (27 min.) and the 1974 documentary Pasolini and the form of the city (16 min) Special features on The decameron disc: On "The Decameron" visual essay by Patrick Rumble and the 2005 documentary The lost body of Alibech (45 min.) Special features on The Canterbury tales disc: interview with film scholar Sam Rohdie; and the 2006 documentary Pasolini and the secret humiliation of Chaucer (47 min.) Special features on the Arabian nights disc: On "Arabian nights" visual essay by Tony Rayns and deleted scenes. Decameron: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, M. Gabriella Frankel, Gerhard Exel, Wolfgang Hillinger. Canterbury tales: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Josephine Chaplin. Arabian nights: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Ines Pellegrini, Tessa Bouche, Franco Merli, Margaret Clementi.
Contents:
The decameron = Il decameron (111 min.) -- The Canterbury tales = I racconti di Canterbury (111 min.) -- Arabian nights = Il fiore delle mille e una notte (130 min.) -- Supplements (ca. 43 min.)
Summary:
The Decameron, transposed to Naples from Boccaccio's Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex. The Arabian nights follows the adventures of a slave girl as she rises to power over a great city. Around her revolve the stories of magic and lust, mystery and fantasy that derive from three cultures (Persia, Egypt and India) and range from the ninth century to the Renaissance. In the Canterbury tales, Pasolini's startling candor and ribald humor illuminate these classic tales of romance, deception, murder and lust.
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