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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Histoire(S) Du Cinema (2008)

    Director
    Jean-Luc Godard
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 260 minutes), £34.99

    In the this 3-DVD volume HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA, consisting of eight episodes made between 1988 and 1998, Jean-Luc Godard examines many of cinemas most important facets, including its birth, the emergence of...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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