#634: PASOLINI, Pier Paolo: Arabian Nights (1974)
TRILOGY OF LIFE {Spine #631}
PASOLINI, Pier Paolo (Italy)
A sixteen-minute documentary by Pasolini and Paolo Brunatto about the Italian cities Orte and Saubaudia.
Arabian Nights [1974]
Spine #634
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled to Africa, Nepal, and the Middle East to realize this ambitious cinematic treatment of a selection of stories from the legendary The Thousand and One Nights. This is not the fairy-tale world of Scheherazade or Aladdin, though. Instead, the director focuses on the book's more erotic tales, framed by the story of a young man's quest to reconnect with his beloved slave girl. Full of lustrous sets and costumes and stunning location photography, Arabian Nights is a fierce and joyous exploration of human sexuality.
130 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
in Italian
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Director/Writers
Screenplay by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Dacia Maraini.
Pasolini was 52 when he directed Arabian Nights.
Other Pasolini films in the Collection:
#0000F1: Accattone (1961)
#0000F2/#236: Mamma Roma (1962)
#0000F3: Love Meetings (1964)
#0000F4: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
#0000F5: The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
#0000F6: Oedipus Rex (1967)
#0000F7/#1013: Teorema (1968)
#0000F8: Porcile (1969)
#0000F9: Medea (1969)
#632: The Decameron (1971)
#633: The Canterbury Tales (1972)
#17: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)
The Film
Other Pasolini films in the Collection:
#0000F1: Accattone (1961)
#0000F2/#236: Mamma Roma (1962)
#0000F3: Love Meetings (1964)
#0000F4: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
#0000F5: The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
#0000F6: Oedipus Rex (1967)
#0000F7/#1013: Teorema (1968)
#0000F8: Porcile (1969)
#0000F9: Medea (1969)
#632: The Decameron (1971)
#633: The Canterbury Tales (1972)
#17: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Sixty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by Colin MacCabe, and Pasolini in Persia: The Shooting of 1,001 Nights by Gideon Bachmann.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Sixty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by Colin MacCabe, and Pasolini in Persia: The Shooting of 1,001 Nights by Gideon Bachmann.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
With transcriptions of the dialogue from the original script.
Pasolini and the Form of the City (1974)
A sixteen-minute documentary by Pasolini and Paolo Brunatto about the Italian cities Orte and Saubaudia.
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