Pasolini's Trilogy of Life

HarryLong · **Posted:** Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:43 pm

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the sight of Tom Baker naked should do wonders for UK's teen pregnancy rates

Up or down?

The, uh, pregnancy rates, that is.

domino harvey · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm

Matt wrote:

Those of us in Region A will just have to wait for the Criterion release in 2012. They'll be delayed that long so Criterion can film a 10-minute interview with one of the actors and tack on some god-awful Italian TV documentary about Pasolini.

Don't forget the meandering introduction by Paul Anderson, who explains the film's influence on Event Horizon

CSM126 · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:22 am **Location:** Gamibia

domino harvey wrote:

Matt wrote:

Those of us in Region A will just have to wait for the Criterion release in 2012. They'll be delayed that long so Criterion can film a 10-minute interview with one of the actors and tack on some god-awful Italian TV documentary about Pasolini.

Don't forget the meandering introduction by Paul Anderson, who explains the film's influence on Event Horizon

And Catherine Breillat insisting the films "ahr nah chockeeng"

Tommaso · **Joined:** Fri May 19, 2006 10:09 am

godardslave wrote:

I just realized these are only going to be available as three individual releases, not in a box set.

Which is ](*,)

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While a box would be nice for collectors, I don't know what I would do if these were NOT available individually. Anyone who has the French or German editions will only need "Appunti", and THANK GOD AND THE BFI one can buy the "Decameron" disc on its own. Which I will do immediately; "Appunti" is such a wonderful film.

DCSholtis · **Joined:** Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:27 pm

Matt wrote:

Those of us in Region A will just have to wait for the Criterion release in 2012. They'll be delayed that long so Criterion can film a 10-minute interview with one of the actors and tack on some god-awful Italian TV documentary about Pasolini.

Region A here as well but I've got a LG BH 200 which will enable me to watch these classics once my pre orders arrive.

MichaelB · **Joined:** Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm **Location:** Worthing

No great surprise (I'd have been more surprised if it had gone the other way, given the source), but I can confirm that the Pasolinis are definitely Region B.

MichaelB · **Joined:** Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm **Location:** Worthing

DVD Times on The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights (Blu-rays in all cases).

der_Artur · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2009 10:06 am

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The Decameron

Special features on both sets

• Notes for an African Oresteia (1970) – Pasolini’s visual notes for a never-realised feature film

Besides "Arabian Nights" (which had some of the mythological scope of "Medea" and "Edipo Re") I did not like the trilogy of life and hence have not looked into this thread. So I only got to know that "Notes for an African Oresteia" will be a special feature when I visited the Beaver. What great, great news. In the Beaver review I read that the Notes are HD, too. Is this really a 1080p transfer for that bonus feature?

MichaelB · **Joined:** Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm **Location:** Worthing

golgothicon wrote:

Is this really a 1080p transfer for that bonus feature?

Yup - it's the Cineteca di Bologna restoration.

denti alligator · **Posted:** Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:43 pm

A reviewer at amazon:

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Another very poor Pasolini Blu Ray from the BFI that features a transfer that is severly undermined by clueless, agressive bad quality noise/grain filtering that eats away at fine detail and covers everything with ugly noise. Bye bye film look. In addition edge enhancement halos grace high contrast edges. BFI has got quite a nerve to release in 2009 such transfers that would have been objectionable 5 years ago.
BFI, please remember your own name: The British FILM institute. Blu Ray is such a wonderful medium when it is used to show us the look of film which it can do quite accurately. On this Blu Ray we see no film, only an overprocessed nasty video image.

Are these complaints legitimate?

MichaelB · **Joined:** Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm **Location:** Worthing

Not as far as I'm concerned. As you'll see from his other reviews, he has a habit of giving one star to otherwise acclaimed Blu-ray releases (Zulu, for instance), a practice that has already attracted quite a few complaints (scroll down to the bottom of that link).

I must admit I haven't watched The Decameron Blu-ray all the way through, but what I did see looked more than acceptable for a high-def transfer of a nearly 40-year-old film, and the three longest reviews that I've read (Beaver, Blu-ray.com, DVD Times) are pretty much in agreement. In other words, not perfect, but probably as good as you're likely to get without an expensive Red Shoes-style photochemical restoration.

pro-bassoonist · **Joined:** Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:26 am

denti alligator wrote:

Are these complaints legitimate?

The "reviewer" is a well known poster at AVS. Do a search for mhafner (Michel Hafner) and read some of his posts. I encourage you to also do a bit of research on his statements addressing the BFI. Then, I encourage you to find out on which side of the fence he found himself during the Blu-ray/HDDVD "war".

Pro-B

Nothing · **Joined:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:04 am

Looking at the Beaver screen-caps, that IS a somewhat questionable transfer. Presumably these are the elements that the BFI were landed with, but the excessive DNR, digital noise, lack of detail and edge enhancement that the reviewer mentions are all present. The best this currently looks on home video, I'm sure, but certainly not photochemical problems (and not a patch on the BFI's own transfers of Arden, Douglas, etc).

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