Franco Rossellini
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Italiano
Description
Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes lusty nuns who perform sexual "miracles," a cheating wife with a head for business, a dying con artist attempting a heavenly swindle, young lovers caught with their pants down, a servant who loses his head for love and a gullible farmer who tries to turn his wife into a mare.
2) Il decameron
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
Boccaccio's classic tales of passion brought to the screen with all their lusty fervor intact. Among the stories are a young man's exploits with a gang of robbers, a flock of randy nuns who sin with a strapping gardener, and a pupil of the painter Giotto working on a massive fresco.
3) Teorema
Series
Criterion collection volume 1013
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
"One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini's most radical provocations finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger--perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil--who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo...
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
Description
In a railway coach Snp̉oraz wakes from a nap and seduces a beautiful stranger. Then he follows her through a forest to a weird hotel where a feminist convention is being held. He is so unnerved by the vociferous hostility of the militants that he hides in the mansion of a female killer who has wooed and won a thousand hearts. Snp̉oraz will be forced to run the gauntlet before waking up and realizing that his adventure was only a crazy nightmare....
5) Caligula
Publisher
General Media Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
From the moment he ascends to the throne as Emperor, Caligula forces a reign like no other as power and corruption transform him into a deranged beast.
Series
Criterion collection volume 631
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Italiano
Description
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...