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In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of medieval literature—Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (often known as The Arabian Nights )—and in doing so created his most ...
The Decameron ( Italian: Il Decameron) is a 1971 anthology film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the 14th-century allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first film of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights.
Nov 13, 2012 · In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom) brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of premodern world literature—Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (often known as The Arabian ...
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Nov 21, 2012 · The title of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” at first feels like a misnomer. Adapting a choice selection of medieval Eurasian parables and myths by way of three canonical source texts, the films present an entourage of goonish characters who, through simple actions that produce equally simply reactions, stumble into prurience ...
Criterion presents Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life in a brand new Blu-ray box set. The set includes The Decameron , The Canterbury Tales , and Arabian Nights . Each film is presented on its own dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Decameron comes to Blu-ray through Criterion’s box set The Trilogy of Life. The film, the first in the trilogy, is presented on the first dual-layer disc of the set in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 with a new 1080p/24hz high-definition digital transfer.
Nov 19, 2012 · Turning to classic literature, he chose to helm a Trilogy of Life: three films adapting famous books that themselves were a collection of short stories and fables.