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Teorema
Title
Teorema / Franco Rossellini e Manolo Bolognini presentano un film di Pier Paolo Pasolini ; scritto e diretto da Pier Paolo Pasolini.
ISBN
9798886070385
Publication
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2023]
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Medium
plastic
4 3/4 in.
stamping
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
New, restored 2K digital transfer.
Pasolini 101 set includes a book (95 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm) containing "Why cinema?" by Pier Paolo Pasolini; "The elegiac heart: Pier Paolo Pasolini, filmmaker" by James Quandt; and The films with notes by James Quandt.
Features: New, restored 2K digital transfer; Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack featuring the voices of actor Terence Stamp and others; Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Robert S.C. Gordon, author of Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity; Introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1969; Interview from 2007 with Stamp; New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome; New English subtitle translation; An essay by film scholar James Quandt.
Director of photography, Giuseppe Ruzzolini ; editor, Nino Baragli ; original music, Ennio Morricone.
Italian dialogue; English subtitles.
Summary
One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini's most radical provocations finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger--perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil--who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle-- blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy--is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void.
Variant and related titles
Teorema (Motion picture)
Teorema (Motion picture). English.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Italian
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2023
Series
Criterion collection
Pasolini 101 ; 007
Credits
Director of photography, Giuseppe Ruzzolini ; editor, Nino Baragli ; original music, Ennio Morricone.
Cast
Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Laura Betti, Andrés José Cruz Soublette, Ninetto Davoli.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A, wide screen (1.85:1); mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
CC3462BD The Criterion Collection
CC3462BD-7 The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Also listed under
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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