Arabian Nights 1974  NC-17, 155 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
aka: A Thousand and One Nights
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini, Tessa Bouche, Margaret Clementi, Francelise Noel, Ali Abdulla, Christian Aligny, Salvatore Sapienza, Luigina Rocchi, Alberto Argentino, Francesco Paolo Govenale, Zuedi Biasolo, Elizabetta Genovese
Pier Paolo Pasolini's third film in his series–following "The Decameron" (1971) and "The Canterbury Tales" (1972)–is the erotic tale of a prince, Nured-Din (Franco Merli), who searches his known world (the Middle East) for his lover, slave girl Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini). Zumurrud has been kidnapped, disguises herself as a man, marries a woman, and is declared the ruler of a great city. While Nured-Din tries to find Zumurrud, he hears various stories involving nudity and betrayal, but he is not able to forget Zumurrud and continues his search.
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The Canterbury Tales 1972 NC-17, 109 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Josephine Chaplin, Franco Citti, Alan Webb, Pier Paolo Pasolini, J.P. Van Dyne, Vernon Dobtcheff, Adrian Street, O.T., Derek Deadman, George Bethell Datch, Nicolas Smith, Dan Thomas
Following "The Decameron" (1971), Pier Paolo Pasolini is back with his second bawdy classic. Several of Chaucer's tales, including those of the Friar, the Wife of Bath, the Cook, the Merchant, the Miller, the Summoner, and the Reeve are told with both humor and drama. The stories reveal 14th-Century English culture–including sexual, social, and political life.
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The Decameron 1971 R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: Il decameron
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Giuseppe Zigaina, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Angela Luce, Silvana Mangano, Vincenzo Amato, Vincenzo Cristo, Gabriella Frankel, Vincenzo Ferrigno, Salvatore Bilardo, Guido Alberti, Giorgio Iovine, Luigi Seraponte, Mirella Catanesi
Boccaccio's story is the first of a series of three, 14th century tales brought to the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini. "Canterbury Tales" (1972) and "Arabian Nights" (1974) follow. The stories in this film involve lovers, merchants, priests, and scoundrels handling life in their own unique ways in a world filled with sexual repression during a much earlier era.
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Oedipus Rex 1967 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck, Luciano Bartoli, Francesco Leonetti, Ahmed Bellashmi, Giandomenico Davoli, Ninetto Davoli
This version of Sophocles' classic Greek story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother is fraught with Freudian messages. Unfortunately, the result is too much psychology and not enough Greek mythology.
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Porcile 1969  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Pigpen
Pigsty
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Pierre Clementi, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi, Anne Wiazemsky, Margarita Lozano, Marco Ferreri, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli
Two obscure narratives are told in this film. One involves the son of a post-World War II German industrialist who gets fed up with human relationships and protests by becoming involved with pigs. The other, set several centuries ago, follows a young cannibal as he searches for food in his volcanic surroundings.
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Teorema 1968  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Theorem
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Laura Betti, Andres Jose Cruz Soublette, Ninetto Davoli, Alfonso Gatto, Carlo De Mejo, Luigi Barbini, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Susanna Pasolini
This highly symbolic film tries to combine Marxism and Christ into one philosophical sphere. A stranger visits a wealthy Italian family and makes love with every man and woman at the estate. He then leaves, and the family is faced with voids. Who was the stranger? Was he Christ, or was he the Devil?
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| 1. Arabian Nights (1974)
aka: A Thousand and One Nights
2. The Canterbury Tales (1972)
3. The Decameron (1971)
aka: Il decameron
4. Oedipus Rex (1967)
5. Porcile (1969)
aka: Pigpen
aka: Pigsty
6. Teorema (1968)
aka: Theorem
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