"Actor: Franco Citti"

• The Decameron (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (05/12/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first of Pasolini’s colourful, entertaining and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films, The Decameron tells ten stories based on fourteenth-century originals. Full of bawdy, earthy spirit, and presented in a high-definition restoration, the film romps through its tales of sex and death – of lusty nuns and priests, cuckolded husbands, murdered lovers and grave-robbers – with five of the stories linked by the character of an intriguing artist, played by Pasolini himself.

• Oedipus Rex | Blu Ray | (24/09/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three years after The Gospel According to Matthew, Pier Paolo Pasolini resumed his series of classical adaptations with asavage, highly personal take on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re). As his first colour feature, Oedipus Rex makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes to transpose collective myth into a particular vision that is at once tender, sensual, and wholly unsparing.The film is divided into three sections set in different eras. The opening takes place in 1920s Italy, and recounts a birth thatechoes that of the director himself, the product of a beautiful bourgeoise's affair with a military officer. The mid section depicts a time outside of history - it is here that the myth of Oedipus (portrayed by Franco Citti of Accattone and Coppola's The Godfather), one of patricide and incest, plays out opposite the young man's mother/lover (Silvana Mangano). An epilogue shot on the streets of present-day Bologna finds Oedipus playing his flute for a bustling citizenry.

• Pasolini: Trilogy of Life (Blu-ray Set) | Blu Ray | (09/09/2019) from £27.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English audio.

• Arabian Nights | Blu Ray | (27/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series was two years in the making. The locations - Yemen Ethiopia Iran and Nepal - form a rich exotic backdrop to these tales of slaves and kings potions betrayals demons and most of all love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Engrossing mysterious profound and liberating this is an exquisitely dreamlike sensuous and adult interpretation of the original folk tales presented here in a beautiful new high definition restoration.

• Arabian Nights (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (05/12/2011) from £16.48   |  Saving you £6.50 (48.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The final part of Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life series was two years in the making. The locations – Yemen, Ethiopia, Iran and Nepal – form a rich, exotic backdrop to these tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Engrossing, mysterious, profound and liberating, Arabian Nights is an exquisitely dreamlike, sensuous and adult interpretation of the original folk tales, presented here in a beautiful new high-definition restoration. Extras include an alternative English language version, deleted sequences and the original trailer.

• The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury) | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £8.97   |  Saving you £11.02 (122.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's film of The Canterbury Tales was one of a trilogy from the early 1970s that, like its companions The Decameron and the Arabian Nights, was an international box-office hit playing for long runs in mainstream cinemas. All of them adapt a masterpiece of literature where man becomes the moral catalyst for his own destiny. Chaucer's ribald sense of humour was a natural outlet for Pasolini's own desire to throw caution to the wind on screen, causing controversy at the time by displaying all facets of the male and female body unadorned. (Although it all looks pretty tame now, the Italian authorities were a threatening presence to Pasolini at the time.) Produced by Alberto Grimaldi with a large budget, the location scenes were filmed in many historic sites in England, notably Wells Cathedral, its crypt, and the surrounding flatlands leading toward Glastonbury, captured in early spring by Tonino Delli Colli's cinematography. The cast with Italian and English actors dubbed into Italian with English subtitles is a mixed blessing. Hugh Griffith as Sir January is one Anglo-Saxon recognisable from his role as the lecherous squire in Tom Jones, and overacts like the rest of the cast. Pasolini himself appears briefly as Chaucer in a non-speaking role that one regrets he didn't enlarge for himself in this sprawling tableaux of pilgrim's tales (Ken Russell's excesses from the same period come to mind). The musical score, an adaptation by Ennio Morricone of some traditional indigenous melodies, prefigures the early music revival by a few years and provides a stimulating soundtrack. --Adrian Edwards

• Kill Them All and Come Back Alone | Blu Ray | (06/06/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A new 4K restoration of the 1968 Spaghetti Western classic starring Chuck Connors (Geronimo, Soylent Green) and directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The Inglorious Bastards, High Crime), now available on DVD & Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. In 1864, mercenary Clyde McKay leads a squad of determined daredevils tasked with a dangerous mission by Captain Lynch of the Confederate high command: to infiltrate and raid a Unionist army fortress where a million dollars in gold has been hidden in boxes of dynamite. A single Colt bullet could send the whole treasure sky high but for these scoundrels Lynch the killer, Deker the dynamite specialist, Hoagy the hit man, Blade the knife expert, the vicious Kid and Bogard with his brute strength - nothing is impossible. Only madmen could pull off such a job, piercing the enemy lines at the only river crossing and creating a diversion for the garrison where the arsenal is situated. But before long the betrayals begin as the men attempt to double cross each other in order to take the money for themselves in this bloodthirsty Civil War tale of revenge. Part of the STUDIOCANAL Cult Classics collection, featuring both Italian and English language options and an exclusive set of art cards. Also known in Italian as Ammazzali tutti e torna solo. Product Features Audio commentary with filmmaker and fan Alex Cox - British filmmaker Alex Cox (Sid & Nancy, Repo Man) and presenter of the BBC series Moviedrome dissects the film in an audio commentary. Shoot to Kill, Aim to Thrill - An Interview with Enzo G. Castellari - A newly filmed interview with director Enzo G. Castellari, looking back at the making of the film. Shoot-Outs in the Old Spaghetti West - Romolo Guerrieri on a Family of Filmmaking A new featurette on how Enzo G. Castellari was born into a family of filmmakers. Italy's Cult Auteur of Action Cinema - A Critical Retrospective of Enzo G. Castellari A new critical restrospective on director Enzo G. Castellari and his place in film history. Stills Gallery - A stunning selection of on set photography from the film.

• Accattone/ Comizi d'amore | Blu Ray | (26/03/2012) from £29.59   |  Saving you £-6.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The debut feature of Italian filmmaker-novelist-poet-provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini (Sal, or the 120 Days of Sodom; The Gospel According to Matthew; The Decameron), Accattone rocked the cinema world with its depictions, at once raw and elegant, of the underside of Roman street life - and, in the process, seemed to announce a new direction for Italian films: a neo-neorealism. On the mean streets of Rome, Accattone's eponymous pimp (played by Franco Citti, one of a remarkable cast of local non-professionals) leads a hand-to-mouth existence on the very margins of society: prostituting, scrounging, exploiting. When his prize prostitute Maddalena is arrested and jailed, the pimp's fortunes dwindle, and he is forced to confront his own existence. The work of one of Italy's foremost auteurs, Accattone combines a fascination with poverty, sexual mores, and the entrapments of society, with a sense of humanity and sanctity rarely seen in cinema.

• Pigsty | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Decades on from its release, and featuring an all-star cast that includes Jean-Pierre Laud, Anne Wiazemsky, Franco Citti, Pierre Clmenti, and Marco Ferreri, Pigsty [Porcile] remains one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's most controversial and wilfully provocative works – a deranged parody of cinema as revolutionary act. It comprises parallel stories: (1) Clmenti and Citti as cannibalistic savages who rampage a world outside of any distinct time or place, and who push against the boundaries of human morality; (2) Godard-regulars Laud and Wiazemsky as a romantically engaged couple in a contemporary Germany painted as a morass of industrialisation, fascist impulse, and bestial instincts. Special Features: New high-definition transfer in the film's original aspect ratio Original Italian theatrical trailer Newly translated optional English subtitles Illustrated booklet featuring rare archival imagery, the words of Pasolini, and more!

• The Canterbury Tales (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (05/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second part of Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life is based on the fourteenth-century stories of Geoffrey Chaucer. Plunging with gusto into some of the blackest and bawdiest of the tales, Pasolini celebrates almost every conceivable form of sexual act with a rich, earthy humour. The film’s visual magic is complimented by this new high-definition restoration.Special features Alternative English-language version presented with English-version inserts Original Italian trailer Exclusive new documentary exploring Pasolini’s significance on the Italian genre film Fully illustrated booklet including essays, reviews and biography A particular delight is the use of a largely British cast, including Hugh Griffith, Jenny Runacre and Tom Baker, which Pasolini himself takes the part of Chaucer.

• The Black Stallion Returns | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £6.81   |  Saving you £6.18 (90.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A young boy stows away from America to North Africa to rescue his black stallion from the Berber sheikh who stole the horse.

• Pasolini 101 (Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (27/06/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Watch Me When i Kill (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (23/10/2017) from £14.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dark 1977 Italian Giallo horror directed by Antonio Bido. Mara (Paola Tedesco) is on her way home when she decides that she needs to buy some painkillers. What she does not realise, when she enters the pharmacy, is that the person behind the counter is a murderer and the pharmacist is dead. Things take an even darker turn when Mara finds herself being stalked by the killer, who is determined to eliminate the only witness to his crime. Mara and her boyfriend Lukas (Corrado Pani) find themselves sinking deeper into a mystery which is much more than an ordinary murder.

• The Decameron | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £12.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (65.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first of Pasolini's colourful and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films based on famous story circles (to be followed by 'The Canterbury Tales' and 'Arabian Nights') 'The Decameron' contains ten stories based on the fourteenth century works of Giovanni Boccaccio. Capturing the bawdy earthy spirit of the original the film romps through its tales of sex and death - of lusty nuns and priests cuckolded husbands murdered lovers and grave-robbers with five of the stories linked by an artist 'Giotto's pupil' played by Pasolini himself.

• Kill Them All and Come Back Alone | DVD | (06/06/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A new 4K restoration of the 1968 Spaghetti Western classic starring Chuck Connors (Geronimo, Soylent Green) and directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The Inglorious Bastards, High Crime), now available on DVD & Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. In 1864, mercenary Clyde McKay leads a squad of determined daredevils tasked with a dangerous mission by Captain Lynch of the Confederate high command: to infiltrate and raid a Unionist army fortress where a million dollars in gold has been hidden in boxes of dynamite. A single Colt bullet could send the whole treasure sky high but for these scoundrels Lynch the killer, Deker the dynamite specialist, Hoagy the hit man, Blade the knife expert, the vicious Kid and Bogard with his brute strength - nothing is impossible. Only madmen could pull off such a job, piercing the enemy lines at the only river crossing and creating a diversion for the garrison where the arsenal is situated. But before long the betrayals begin as the men attempt to double cross each other in order to take the money for themselves in this bloodthirsty Civil War tale of revenge. Part of the STUDIOCANAL Cult Classics collection, featuring both Italian and English language options and an exclusive set of art cards. Also known in Italian as Ammazzali tutti e torna solo. Product Features Audio commentary with filmmaker and fan Alex Cox - British filmmaker Alex Cox (Sid & Nancy, Repo Man) and presenter of the BBC series Moviedrome dissects the film in an audio commentary. Shoot to Kill, Aim to Thrill - An Interview with Enzo G. Castellari - A newly filmed interview with director Enzo G. Castellari, looking back at the making of the film. Shoot-Outs in the Old Spaghetti West - Romolo Guerrieri on a Family of Filmmaking A new featurette on how Enzo G. Castellari was born into a family of filmmakers. Italy's Cult Auteur of Action Cinema - A Critical Retrospective of Enzo G. Castellari A new critical restrospective on director Enzo G. Castellari and his place in film history. Stills Gallery - A stunning selection of on set photography from the film.

• Arabian Nights | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £21.00   |  Saving you £-1.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series was two years in the making. The locations - Yemen Ethiopia Iran and Nepal - form a rich exotic backdrop to these tales of slaves and kings potions betrayals demons and most of all love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Engrossing mysterious profound and liberating this is an exquisitely dreamlike sensuous and adult interpretation of the original folk tales presented here in a beautiful new high definition restoration.

• OEDIPUS REX | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Three years after The Gospel According to Matthew, Pier Paolo Pasolini resumed his series of classical adaptations with a savage, highly personal take on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re). As his first colour feature, Oedipus Rex makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes to transpose collective myth into a particular vision that is at once tender, sensual, and wholly unsparing. The film is divided into three sections set in different er...

• Arabian Nights | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series following The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales was two years in the making. The locations - Yemen Ethiopia Iran and Nepal - form a rich exotic backdrop to these tales of slaves and kings potions betrayals demons and most of all love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Engrossing mysterious profound and liberating - Arabian Nights is an exquisitely dreamlike sensuous interpretation of the original folk tales praised by novelist and arab scholar Robert Irwin as wonderful... the only version made for adults.

• Watch Me When i Kill | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £8.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Antonio Bido, the man who won understandable cult acclaim with his stylish stalker-thriller BLOODSTAINED SHADOW (1978), helmed one of the defining giallo shockers in 1977's nightmarish WATCH ME WHEN I KILL. For fans of yellow-peril, golden age, Italian black-gloved killer mayhem, it does not get any better than this suspenseful murder-mystery which follows an animalistic, knife-happy maniac as he cuts and drowns his victims to prohibit a historic secret emerging. Exactly why the dead bodies are piling up confuses the authorities - but the reasoning behind this sudden slash 'em up activity proves both jarring and jaggedly horrible. And look out for an appearance from legendary Italian genre veteran Paolo Malco (THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY/ THE NEW YORK RIPPER) and a sizzling soundtrack from art prog-rockers Trans-Europe Express! Even seasoned giallo buffs are sure to embrace the many thrills and chills of WATCH ME WHEN I KILL, remastered in 4k by the Euro-gore embracing enthusiasts at 88 Films!

• The Decameron | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £9.22   |  Saving you £10.77 (116.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first of Pasolini's colourful entertaining and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films The Decameron tells ten stories based on 14th century originals. Full of bawdy earthy spirit and presented in high definition restoration the film romps through its tales of sex and death - of lusty nuns and priests cuckolded husbands murdered lovers and grave robber - with five of the stories linked by the character of an intriguing artist played by Pasolini himself.