I racconti di Canterbury The Canterbury Tales Pier Paolo Pasolini [videorecording]=

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Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Italian Summary language: English Original language: Italian Subtitle language: English Series: Trilogia della vita ; Vol. 2 | The Criterion Collection ; Vol. 633Publication details: Italy Les Productions Artistes Associés Produzioni Europee Associati 1972Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inOther title:

The Canterbury Tales

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The Canterbury Tales

LOC classification:

PN1997 .R333 1972

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-D: DVD Cabinet D	PN1997 .R333 1972	Available	Italian audio. Optional English subtitles.		001508
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-D: DVD Cabinet D	PN1997 .R333 1972	Available	Italian audio. Optional English subtitles.		000646

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.

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