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Title:Teorema / Franco Rossellini e Manolo Bolognini presentano un film di Pier Paolo Pasolini ; scritto e diretto da Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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ISBN:9798886070385
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Publication:[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2023]
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Copyright notice date: ©2023
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Physical Description:1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Medium:plastic
4 3/4 in.
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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.
Italian dialogue; English subtitles.
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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.
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Variant and related titles: Teorema (Motion picture)
Teorema (Motion picture). English.
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Series:Criterion collection
Pasolini 101 ; 007
Criterion collection.
Pasolini 101 (Criterion collection) ; 007.
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Credits:Director of photography, Giuseppe Ruzzolini ; editor, Nino Baragli ; original music, Ennio Morricone.
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Cast:Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Laura Betti, Andrés José Cruz Soublette, Ninetto Davoli.
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System details note:Blu-ray, region A, wide screen (1.85:1); mono; requires Blu-ray player.
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Audience:Rating: Not rated.
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Subjects:Seduction--Drama.
Families--Italy--Milan--Drama.
Family secrets--Drama.
Good and evil--Drama.
Theological virtues--Drama.
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Also listed under:Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975, screenwriter, film director.
Bolognini, Mauro, 1922-2001, film producer, presenter.
Rossellini, Franco, film producer, presenter.
Morricone, Ennio, composer (expression)
Ruzzolini, Giuseppe, 1930-2007, director of photography.
Baragli, Nino, editor of moving image work.
Mangano, Silvana, 1930-1989, actor.
Stamp, Terence, actor.
Girotti, Massimo, 1918-2003, actor.
Wiazemsky, Anne, actor.
Betti, Laura, actor.
Cruz Soublette, Andrés José, actor.
Davoli, Ninetto, actor.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16786251