RoGoPaG

RoGoPaG is to be released in the UK in a Dual Format (DVD & Blu-ray) edition as part of Eureka Entertainment’s MASTERS OF CINEMA Series on  27 August 2012.  DVD edition also available!

(DVD edition also available)

• Long-awaited Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition of this renowned '60s "anthology film", available for the very first time anywhere in the world on Blu-ray, in a beautiful new restoration

• Consists of four separate episodes, each directed by a major director in the annals of film: Roberto Rossellini (Rome: Open City; Francesco giullare di Dio; Voyage to Italy), Jean-Luc Godard(Breathless; Vivre sa vie; Pierrot le fou; the recent Film Socialisme), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Accattone; The Gospel According to Matthew; Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom), and Ugo Gregoretti (Omicron;Le belle famiglie; Maggio musicale)

• Released uncut in this edition, but suppressed and censored in Italy at the time of its initial release

• Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose episode stars the legendary Orson Welles, was sentenced to a suspended four-month prison term for "defamation of the state religion"

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SYNOPSIS:

Conceived by the legendary Italian producer Alfredo Bini, the multi-director portmanteau film Let's Wash Our Brains: RoGoPaG [Laviamoci il cervello: RoGoPaG] brought together four giants of European cinema to contribute comic episodes reflective of the swinging post-"boom" era. The resulting omnibus collectively examines social anxieties around sex, nuclear war, religion, urbanisation – and the promise of a modern cinema.

Roberto Rossellini's Illibatezza [Virginity] follows an airline stewardess plagued by an obsessed American tourist whose 8mm camera enables the indulgence of a personal, and solipsistic, vision of the Ideal. Jean-Luc Godard's Il nuovo mondo [The New World] takes place in an Italian-dubbed Paris beset by nuclear fallout, and wittily chronicles the changes that take place in the lives – and medicine cabinet – of a handsome young couple. Pier Paolo Pasolini's scandalous La ricotta [Ricotta, as in the curded cheese] presents the goings-on around a film shoot devoted to the Crucifixion and presided over by none other than Orson Welles (playing a kind of stand-in for Pasolini himself); it is this episode that landed Pasolini with a suspended four-month prison sentence. Lastly, Ugo Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante [Free-Range Chicken] depicts a middle-class Milanese family flirting with the purchase of real-estate and engaging catastrophically with an antagonistic consumerist infrastructure.

Let's Wash Our Brains: RoGoPaG remains one of the definitive entries of the Sixties vogue for the multi-auteur anthology film, and The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present it for the very first time anywhere in the world on Blu-ray, in a Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition, released on 27 August 2012.  (DVD edition also available!)

Available to pre-order from:

Amazon (Dual Format Edition) http://amzn.to/IOPRi7

HMV (Dual Format Edition) http://tidd.ly/12c1d7ef

Play (Dual Format Edition) http://tidd.ly/190df4af

The Hut (Dual Format Edition) http://tidd.ly/52fe3b98

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 TRAILER:

Original Theatrical Trailer http://bit.ly/KOuR8y

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 SPECIAL DUAL FORMAT (BLU-RAY + DVD) EDITION FEATURES:

• Gorgeous new HD restoration of the film in its original aspect ratio, in 1080p on the Blu-ray

• Newly translated optional English subtitles

• Original Italian theatrical trailer

• 56-page booklet featuring new essays by Tag Gallagher, Arthur Mas, Martial Pisani, and Pasquale Iannone; a new translation by Tag Gallagher of excerpts from an oral history about the film; and rare archival imagery

    

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DETAILS:

Label: Eureka Entertainment Ltd

Dual Format Cat. No: EKA70047

Dual Format Barcode: 5060000700473

Dual Format RRP: £20.42

DVD Cat. No: EKA40351

DVD Barcode: 5060000403510

DVD Dealer RRP: £17.36

Release Date: 27 August 2012

Certificate: PG

Run Time: 123 minutes

Format: 1.85:1 OAR

Genre: World Cinema

Director: Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Ugo Gregoretti

Year: 1963

Country:  Italy

Language: Italian

Subtitles: English (Optional)