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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in Boccaccio '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (Big deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8 1/2), Luchino Visconti (The leopard) and Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, today and tomorrow) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through four stories of unashamed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, they are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding...
3) 24 frames
Series
Criterion collection volume 956
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Persian
Description
Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami recreates the final three years of his life through twenty-four short films inspired by a collection of still images.
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Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Anthology film including four stories about a death at a birthday party, a murderous son, a young boy starving himself, and college students trying to survive a wilderness adventure.
8) Vai
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Maori
Description
Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single continuous shot where possible.
Series
Criterion collection volume 631-634
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
The Decameron, transposed to Naples from Boccaccio's Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex.
The Arabian nights follows the adventures of a slave girl as she rises to power over a great city. Around her revolve the stories of magic and lust, mystery and fantasy that derive from three cultures (Persia, Egypt and India) and range from the ninth century to the Renaissance.
In the Canterbury tales, Pasolini's startling...
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