San Francisco Public Library

Canterbury tales disc

Pier Paolo Pasolini's trilogy of life - Canterbury tales disc

Title from containerDecameron: Based on "The decameron" by Giovanni BoccaccioCanterbury tales: Based on "The Canterbury tales" by Geoffrey ChaucerArabian nights: Based on a selection of stories from "The thousand and one nights."Decameron: Originally released as a motion picture in 1971Canterbury tales: Originally released as a motion picture in 1972Arabian nights: Originally released as a motion picture in 1974Accompanying booklet includes cast lists and credits for the three feature films and several essays by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Colin MacCabeSupplements 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

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Produced by Franco Rossellini (Decameron), Alberto Grimaldi (Canterbury tales, Arabian nights) ; written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini ; designed by Dante Ferretti ; music by Ennio Morricone ; editing, Nino Baragli, Tatiana Casini Morigi (Decameron, Arabian nights) ; director of photography, Tonino Delli Colli (Decameron, Canterbury tales), Giuseppe Ruzzolini (Arabian nights)

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Four-DVD special edition.

Educational and home use only

9781604656497

videodisc

Decameron: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanović, M. Gabriella Frankel, Gerhard Exel, Wolfgang HillingerCanterbury tales: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Josephine Chaplin, Alan WebbArabian nights: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Ines Pellegrini, Tessa Bouche, Franco Merli, Margaret Clementi

4 videodiscs (352 min.), sound, color, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet (63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm).

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)817966540

DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (16:9, 1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono

715515100311

CC2195D (CC2196D--CC2198D) -- Criterion Collection (set container)CC2196D -- Criterion Collection (Decameron disc)CC2197D -- Criterion Collection (Canterbury tales disc)CC2198D -- Criterion Collection (Arabian nights and Supplements discs)

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