TY - BOOK AU - Pier Paolo Pasolini AU - Pier Paolo Pasolini AU - Dacia Maraini AU - Ninetto Davoli AU - Franco Citti AU - Franco Merli TI - Il fiore delle mille e una notte: Arabian Nights AV - PN1997 .F567 1974 PY - 1974/// CY - Italy PB - Produzioni Europee Associati, Les Productions Artistes Associés N1 - Special features include: Disc 1: - Introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini - On "Arabian Nights," a new visual essay by film scholar Tony Rayns - Deleted scenes, with transcriptions of the dialogue from the original script - Trailers Disc 2: - Interviews with art director Dante Ferretti and composer Ennio Morricone - Via Pasolini (2005), a documentary featuring archival footage of Pasolini discussing his views on language, film, and modern society - Pasolini and the Form of the City (1974), a documentary by Pasolini and Paolo Brunatto about the Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia Based on the ancient anthology "Kitāb ʾalf layla wa-layla" ("The Book of One Thousand and One Nights," aka: "The Arabian Nights") from the Islamic Golden Age (8th century to the 13th century) N2 - From case cover: Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled to Africa, Nepal, and the Middle East to realize this ambitious cinematic treatment of a selection of stories from the legendary "The Thousand and One Nights." This is not the fairy-tale world of Scheherazade or Aladdin, though. Instead, the director focuses on the book's more erotic tales, framed by the story of a young man's quest to reconnect with his beloved slave girl. Full of lustrous sets and costumes and stunning location photography, "Arabian Nights" is a fierce and joyous exploration of human sexuality ER -