Pasolini's Trilogy of Life Blu-ray

'Trilogy of Life' Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini (1971-1974) BFI 3-Disc Blu-ray Box Set | Italian or English audio w/ English subtitles

In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of pre-modern world literature - Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (otherwise known as Arabian Knights) - and in doing so created his most uninhibited and extravagant work, which he titled his Trilogy of Life.

Special features include:
- Notes for an African Oresteia (1970, 73 mins): Pasolini's visual notes for an unrealised film project
- Pasolini and the Italian Genre Film (2009, 37 mins)
- Robin Askwith on Pier Paolo Pasolini (2015, 23 mins)
- Deleted sequences from Arabian Nights
- Illustrated booklet with essays by Sam Rohdie and Roger Clarke, original reviews, a biography of Pasolini and full film credits