Pasolini’s PIGSTY [PORCILE] and HAWKS AND SPARROWS [UCCELLACCI E UCCELLINI] are to be released in the UK on DVD as part of Eureka Entertainment’s MASTERS OF CINEMA Series on 23 July 2012
Continuing their tribute to the great Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (following releases earlier in the year of The Gospel according to Matthew & Accattone), Eureka Entertainment have announced they will be releasing two more typically provocative Pasolini films from the 1960s: HAWKS AND SPARROWS, a political comedy starring Italian popular actor Totò and a Marxist talking crow!, and PIGSTY, a portrayal of bestiality, degradation, and bourgeois life circa 1969. Both titles will join the Masters of Cinema series on DVD on 23 July 2012.
PIGSTY [PORCILE]
“Not only an exquisitely revolting satire, it is also Pasolini's most fascinating piece of cinema.” – Time Out Magazine
“One of Pasolini's most enigmatic films.” – Film 4
TRAILER:
Original Italian theatrical trailer http://bit.ly/Jveraj
SYNOPSIS:
Decades on from its release, and featuring an all-star cast that includes Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Franco Citti, Pierre Clémenti, 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) Clémenti 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 Léaud and Wiazemsky as a romantically engaged couple in a contemporary Germany painted as a morass of industrialisation, fascist impulse, and bestial instincts.
Rivalled only by the director's Salò in its obsession with the politics of bourgeois degradation, Pigsty continues to challenge and enlarge the notions of what makes for "a political film" and what is meant by "a Pasolini film". The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the nightmarish Pigsty in a special DVD edition from a new HD master, released in the UK on 23 July 2012.
Available to pre-order from:
Amazon (DVD) http://amzn.to/IONYBO
Play (DVD) http://tidd.ly/891742f6
Hut (DVD) http://tidd.ly/7e6d2ef6
SPECIAL DVD EDITION:
• 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!
FURTHER INFO.:
• Long-awaited DVD reissue (and the first ever standalone release in the UK) of this renowned work of late-1960s Italian cinema
• Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the legendary director of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom; The Gospel According to Matthew; The Decameron; Teorema; Mamma Roma; The Arabian Nights; Accattone; The Canterbury Tales;Oedipus Rex; etc.
• Stars some of European art cinema's most famous names of the era: Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows; La Chinoise; Masculin féminin), Anne Wiazemsky (Au hasard Balthazar; La Chinoise; and Pasolini's Teorema), Franco Citti (The Godfather; and Pasolini's Accattone and The Decameron), Pierre Clémenti (Belle de Jour; The Leopard; The Conformist), and Marco Ferreri (Le vent d'est; and director of La grande bouffe and Tales of Ordinary Madness)
• Reviewed by renowned critic Jonathan Rosenbaum as the Pasolini film "that today best shows the warp and woof of its period" (Chicago Reader)
DETAILS:
Label: Eureka Entertainment Ltd
DVD Cat. No: EKA40346
DVD Barcode: 5060000403466
DVD RRP: £16.34
Release Date: 23 July 2012
Certificate: 15
Run Time: 98 minutes
Format: 1.85 :1 OAR/ B&W
Genre: World Cinema
Director: Pier Paolo PASOLINI
Year: 1969
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English (Optional)
HAWKS AND SPARROWS [UCCELLACCI E UCCELLINI]
• Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the legendary director of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
• Widely acclaimed, including a nomination for the "Palme d'or" top prize at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival
• Included in renowned critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's list of "1000 Essential Films" (in his book Essential Cinema)
TRAILER:
Original Italian theatrical trailer http://bit.ly/KsDEkO
SYNOPSIS:
One of the handful of films that found Pier Paolo Pasolini sustaining a merrier mode of cultural assault, Hawks and Sparrows [Uccellacci e uccellini] features Italy's popular comic actor Totò (known to cinephiles as the star of Roberto Rossellini's Dov'è la liberta…?) and Pasolini regular Ninetto Davoli in a picaresque fable that lampoons politics, religion, and the legacy of neorealism.
A crow gifted with the power of speech accompanies wandering duo Totò and Ninetto on a trail that leads to their roles as Franciscan friars who preach to the literal "hawks and sparrows", before returning in time to gaze upon slum-dwellers, Danteist dentists, itinerant actor-hippies, and, ultimately, the state of the modern world.
Featuring a score by the legendary Ennio Morricone, Pasolini's anarchic comedy remains a time-capsule of the giddy tensions torqued by the dawn of the late Sixties. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Hawks and Sparrows in a special DVD edition from a new HD master, released on 23 July 2012.
Available to pre-order from:
Amazon (DVD) http://amzn.to/JMypw2
Play (DVD) http://tidd.ly/dcb8b499
Hut (DVD) http://tidd.ly/ceb9ecf0
SPECIAL EDITION DVD 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!
REVIEWS:
“An intriguing tragicomic fable that shows two delightful innocents caught, like many Italians at the time, between the Church and communism.” – Film 4
FURTHER INFO.:
• Features a soundtrack by the legendary Ennio Morricone (A Fistful of Dollars; The Battle of Algiers; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in the West; Days of Heaven; For a Few Dollars More; Once Upon a Time in America; The Mission; The Untouchables; Cinema Paradiso)
• Stars popular Italian comic actor Totò (1898–1967), nicknamed "The Prince of Laughter" [Il principe della risata], famed for his commedia dell'arte style and persona, an Italian equivalent of Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin, etc.
• Praised by revered Italian director Roberto Rossellini as "a rare example of the long-sought 'new cinema', new in the substance of the times, which must also correspond to the essential needs of our times, namely the search for bearings in the turmoil of pressing progress. The film is the poignant expression of an author who good-naturedly peers at the vast ranges of a horizon stretching above and beyond incidental, shifting, and transitory events, in the hope of finding, as a man, intelligent bearings in the immensity of time and history."
DETAILS:
Label: Eureka Entertainment Ltd
DVD Cat. No: EKA40347
DVD Barcode: 5060000403473
DVD RRP: £16.34
Release Date: 23 July 2012
Certificate: PG
Run Time: 89 minutes
Format: 1.85 :1 OAR/ B&W
Genre: World Cinema
Director: Pier Paolo PASOLINI
Year: 1966
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
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