"Actor: Alida Valli"

• Pier Paolo Pasolini Vol.2 | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Hawks And Sparrows (1966): The Hawks and the Sparrows a wildly comic fable stars the beloved stone-faced clown Toto as an Italian everyman the Ninetto Davoli as his good-natured but empty-headed son. Pasolini uses a comic crow which philosophizes amusingly and pointedly about the passing scene as a counterpoint to the performers representing humanity as they progress down the road of life. Pasolini presents a tragic fable which shows two delightful innocents caught like many Italians between Church and Marxism. Oedipus Rex (1967): A dark and riveting retelling of the classic Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex. Unknown to himself Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother. When the truth is discovered he puts out his eyes and Oedipus wanders the streets until he is found by his daughter Antigone a common blind beggar. Set in Morocco the film is a visual wonder of desert landscapes and powerful Moorish architecture. The interesting cast include avant garde film and theater director Carmelo Bene Julian Beck from New York's Living theater and Pasolini himself as the High Priest. This remastered version is a must for any serious video collector. Pigsty (1969): Porcile (Pigsty) the story of a cannibal in a medieval wasteland is interwoven with that of the son of an ex-Nazi industrialist in modern day Germany. The young German who is more attracted to pigs than his fiance and the cannibal become sacrificial victims of their different societies. This strange grotesque and thought provoking parable is filmed with such a calm beauty and underlying disgust that it gains a deep significance as an attack on the middle classes of the 20th century.

• Inferno | Blu Ray | (08/09/2014) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dario Argento's sequel to Suspiria, his first and to date only American hit, is an even more incoherent nightmare fantasy. Laden with symbolic imagery and fantastic explosions of death shot in candy-colored hues, it's a bloody feast for the eyes. Mark (Leigh McCloskey), an American music student in Rome, rushes home to New York after a frantic phone call from his sister only to find an empty apartment and obscure clues about a supernatural presence in her spooky building. It all has something to do with the mysterious Mater Tenebrarum, one of the "Three Mothers" of Argento's murky mythology, and the fun house of an apartment house she inhabits, complete with a fully furnished underwater ballroom, miles of secret tunnels flooded in red and blue light, and hidden passageways under the floorboards. Meanwhile, there's a killer running around stabbing beautiful women for who knows what reason, a crippled bookseller attacked by rats, and a homicidal hot-dog vendor in Central Park. Why? It's best not to ponder such mysteries--Argento obviously isn't as concerned with making sense of his meticulously staged murders as he is with lighting them with just the right hue. Dramatically it's inert, a parade of quirky but faceless victims dispatched with elaborate care, but it's beautifully designed and executed, a spectacle of elaborate set pieces and magnificent decor orchestrated with a complete disdain for narrative logic. --Sean Axmaker

• Pier Paolo Pasolini Vol.2 | DVD | (19/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• The Miracle Of The Bells | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Adapted by Ben Hecht and Quentin Reynolds from the best-selling novel by Russell Janney the story revolves around an aspiring actress named Olga Treskovna (Alida Valli). Feeling Coaltown Pennsylvania Olga heads to Hollywood where she manages to land the leading role in a film based on the life of Joan of Arc. Tragically Olga dies suddenly after finishing the film's final scene. Producer Marcus Harris (Lee J. Cobb) wants to reshoot the film with another better-known actress ra

• A Month By The Lake | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  At a luxurious lakeside resort an attractive red-headed guest (Vanessa Redgrave - THE PLEDGE; GIRL INTERRUPTED) has her eye on a handsome well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt (Uma Thurman - KILL BILL VATEL) the mischievous redhead goes to outrageous lengths - including a fling with a passionate younger man - to reel in her wealthy catch! Filled with laughs and riotous comic confusion - everyone's sure to love this delightfully sexy comedy!

• Oedipus Rex | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the mythical Sophoclean dramas Pier Paolo Pasolini's powerful film is a faithful retelling of the Oedipus story framed within a prologue and epilogue set in 1960s Bologna. The tale unfolds in an unidentified desert where choosing to ignore the warnings of the blind soothsayer Oedipus (Pasolini regular Franco Citti) sets out on a fateful journey that will see him break the taboos of patricide and maternal incest. Poetic and dream-like Pasolini's Oedipus Rex boldly tackles its controversial subject matter head on and stands amongst the finest achievements from one of Italian cinema's leading innovators.