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Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978 Video)

aka: Albero Degli Zoccoli, L’

Director

Ermanno Olmi

Subject

Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. col. 170 min., 2001 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Feature film about a poor farming family in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. The family sacrifices to send the son to school, but his shoes break and there is no money to replace them.

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Cinema Paradiso (2007)

Director

Giuseppe Tornatore

Subject

Film Studies; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 285 minutes), £19.99

A digitally remastered version of this multi award-winning film in which a young boy in a small Italian village is overjoyed when the local movie projectionist reveals to him the mysteries of moviemaking,...

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1900 (2007)

aka: Novecento

Director

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subject

Film Studies; History; Italian studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 326 minutes), £15.99

Bertolucci’s epic film of the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century. It chronicles the lives of two men born on the same day in 1900. Depardieu plays the bastard...

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Arabian Nights, The (1974 Video)

aka: Fiore Delle Mille e una Notte, Il

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Producer

Alberto Grimaldi

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

The final part of Pasolini’s ‘Trilogy of life’ series which also includes THE DECAMERON and THE CANTERBURY TALES. A dream-like, sensuous interpretation of the original folk tales. Locations in Yemen,...

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Rome, Open City (1993)

aka: Roma Citta Aperta

Subject

History; Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £15.99

Often seen as the true beginning of neo-realism with its documentary-style imagery and the authenticity of its performances, Rossellini’s classic tells the story of resistance under German occupation....

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Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re) (1967)

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Subject

Classical studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £19.99

Filmed on location in Morocco, Pasolini’s take on Sophocles’ tragedy reimagines the story in three different eras. The first takes place in 1920s Italy and is shaded with autobiographical tones,...

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Canterbury Tales, The (2001)

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Subject

English language and literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £14.99

Pasolini takes the role of Chaucer in a vivid and grotesque adaptation of some of Chaucer’s bawdy tales. The dual format Blu-Ray edition includes an alternative English-language version presented with...

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Madame de... (1953 Video)

aka: Diamond Earrings

Director

Max Ophüls

Subject

French studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 96 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

French feature film adapted from a novel by Louise de Vilmourin set in ‘fin de siècle’ Paris. A countess has a pair of earrings given to her by husband. After a doomed love affair with a baron she sells...

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Passenger, The (1975)

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 119 minutes), £15.99

Film about an Anglo-American journalist, David Locke, who assumes the identity of a dead businessman while working on a documentary in Chad, unaware that he is impersonating an arms dealer with connections...

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Decameron, The (1970 Video)

aka: Decamarone, Il

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Producer

Alberto Grimaldi

Subject

Italian studies

Distribution

DVD

An uncut version of Pasolini’s film adaptation of ten stories from Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, his 14th-century reworking of a hundred bawdy Italian folk-tales.

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