I racconti di Canterbury
Pier Paolo Pasolini
I racconti di Canterbury The Canterbury Tales [videorecording]= The Canterbury Tales Pier Paolo Pasolini - Italy Les Productions Artistes Associés Produzioni Europee Associati 1972 - 1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 in. - Trilogia della vita Vol. 2 The Criterion Collection Vol. 633 .
Based on the 14th-century story collection "Tales of Caunterbury" by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Special features include:
- Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer (2006), a forty-seven-minute documentary by Roberto Chiesi about The Canterbury Tales
- Interview with film scholar Sam Rohdie
From case cover:
Eight of Geoffrey Chaucer's lusty tales comes to life on-screen in Pier Paolo Pasolini's gutsy and delirious "The Canterbury Tales," which was shot in England and offers a remarkably earthy re-creation of the medieval era. From the story of a nobleman struck blind after marrying a much younger and promiscuous bride to a climactic trip to a hell populated by friars and demons (surely one of the most outrageously conceived and realized sequences ever committed to film), this is an endlessly imaginative work of merry blasphemy, framed by Pasolini's portrayal of Chaucer himself.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Region 1; 1.85:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
Italian audio. Optional English subtitles.
PN1997 / .R333 1972
I racconti di Canterbury The Canterbury Tales [videorecording]= The Canterbury Tales Pier Paolo Pasolini - Italy Les Productions Artistes Associés Produzioni Europee Associati 1972 - 1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 in. - Trilogia della vita Vol. 2 The Criterion Collection Vol. 633 .
Based on the 14th-century story collection "Tales of Caunterbury" by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Special features include:
- Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer (2006), a forty-seven-minute documentary by Roberto Chiesi about The Canterbury Tales
- Interview with film scholar Sam Rohdie
From case cover:
Eight of Geoffrey Chaucer's lusty tales comes to life on-screen in Pier Paolo Pasolini's gutsy and delirious "The Canterbury Tales," which was shot in England and offers a remarkably earthy re-creation of the medieval era. From the story of a nobleman struck blind after marrying a much younger and promiscuous bride to a climactic trip to a hell populated by friars and demons (surely one of the most outrageously conceived and realized sequences ever committed to film), this is an endlessly imaginative work of merry blasphemy, framed by Pasolini's portrayal of Chaucer himself.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Region 1; 1.85:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
Italian audio. Optional English subtitles.
PN1997 / .R333 1972