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  1. 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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  2. Focus on Italian Cinema

    Date
    8 Jun 2012, 12:55
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC's Viewfinder Online magazine continues its focus on films and filmmakers from the Italian peninsula with reviews of the latest books, DVDs and Blu-rays. Some of the latest to be published on the...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Directory of World Cinema: Italy

    Date
    14 Jun 2012, 14:06
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Edited by Louis Bayman (Intellect, 2011). 280 pages. ISBN 978-1841504001 (paperback), £15.95; ISBN 978-1841505350 (ebook), £6. About the Author: Sarah Forgacs is a Doctoral candidate in Film Studies at...

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