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Conformist, The (1970)

aka: Conformista, Il

Director

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subject

Film studies; Italian studies; Politics & government; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £27.99

A man named Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) attempts to escape his emotional past by subscribing to totalitarianism in Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterpiece of Italian cinema. But when Clerici is asked to...

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Whoever Says the Truth Shall die: A Film About Pier Paulo Pasolini (1981 Video)

Director

Philo Bregstein

Producer

Frank Diamond; Harry Prins

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 59 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A documentary about writer, poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paulo Pasolini which begins by looking at Pasolini’s violent death in 1975 when he was found murdered on a deserted beach. Bregstein...

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Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth (1992 Video)

Director

Oliver Curtis

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Profiles the life of Italian film-maker Gillo Pontecorvo. David Puttnam and Edward Said discuss his influence on political cinema. Also contains an interview with Pontecorvo.

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Satyricon (1969 Video)

Director

Federico Fellini

Producer

Alberto Grimaldi

Subject

Classical studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 124 min., 1996 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

Less an adaptation of Petronius’ tales than a free-form fantasia on his themes, showing the decadence of Rome in Nero’s reign.

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Leopard, The (2004)

Subject

History; Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 188 minutes), £19.99 (sale)

A restored, original version of Visconti’s adaptation of the novel by Guiseppe di Lampedusa, set in 1860-62 during the period of Italian unification. It tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family...

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Rossellini’s History Films - Renaissance and Enlightenment: Blaise Pascal, The Age of the Medici, Cartesius (2009)

Director

Roberto Rossellini (1906-177)

Subject

French studies; History; Italian studies; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 546 minutes), $59.95

"In 1963, Rossellini announced that he had abandoned cinema and would start working in television. He directed nine telefilms on historical subjects and six short documentaries, claiming TV could be used as...

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Padre Padrone (1979)

Director

Paolo e Vittorio Taviani

Subject

Italian studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £19.99

Padre Padrone is the intense and powerful tale of a young, barely literate shepherd boy, who lives under the thumb of his tyrannical and brutal peasant father. Rescued from his family and his isolated...

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Gospel According to Matthew, The (1964)

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Subject

Film studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 137 minutes), £22.99

Filmed at the behest of the Pope himself, The GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW [Il VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO], won plaudits from the Vatican and the Archbishop of Canterbury, despite its director’s avowed atheism....

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Battle of Algiers, The (1965)

aka: Battaglia di Algeri, La

Director

Gillo Pontecorvo

Producer

Antonio Musi; Yacef Saadi

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

A realistic reconstruction of the fight for liberation in Algiers between 1954 and 1957, resulting in 1962 in a free Algerian state. The film was banned in France for fear of inciting civil unrest, but it...

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My Voyage to Italy

Subject

Film & television production; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 246 minutes), £7.99

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese gained great inspiration from the Italian films he watched in his youth and others that made an impact later on in his life, changing the way he made films. My Voyage To Italy...

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