PIER PAOLO PASOLINI, the brilliant, controversial Italian director who also was a prolific writer of poetry, journalism and fiction, made this trilogy of brightly colorful works based on well-known ...

In another one of those fortuitous moviegoing coincidences, I recently saw The Canterbury Tales (1972) in the Siskel Center’s Pier Paolo Pasolini retrospective just after checking out Jim Jarmusch’s ...

Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on the many edits and cut scenes that were made before the film's release.

DVD £37.18 (£18.56 each), Blu-ray £49.92 (£23.45 each), BFI Three films - The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights - that delivered Pier Paolo Pasolini's refreshingly honest and gritty ...

With hues of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Canterbury Tales as well as the carnivalesque absurdity of Federico Fellini, Matteo Garrone’s Tale Of Tales is a sideways Renaissance fairy tale — bawdy, ornate, ...

Made in 1971, the second of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s noted trilogy, The Canterbury Tales has much to admire about it, but doesn’t quite reach the heights of his earlier adaptation of The Decameron. The ...

Religious hypocrisy, sexuality and issues of class were recurring themes for Pasolini, who often explored them on film in mordant fashion. But in the early 1970s, immediately after his adaptation of ...