I had to double-check my calendar to see if our monthly official Criterion Announcement Day had snuck up on me without me noticing, but nope it's not the 15th -- we're just lucky SOBs on this here 9th of the month, with Criterion announcing a brand new gigantic boxed-set! A boxed-set of nine Pier Paolo Pasolini movies to be precise (to to mention alliterative). The set includes all the movies the gay legend made in the 1960s -- Accatone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), Love Meetings (1964), The Gospel According to Matthew (1964), The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966), Oedipus Rex (1967), Teorema (1968), Porcile (1969) and Madea (1969). Only one of these movies...
... the magnificently queer Teorema, has been released onto blu-ray previously. Personally I've only seen five of these films -- Teorema, The Gospel, Love Meetings, Accatone, and Porcile -- and all of those save Teorema I saw just last year when Criterion put a big collection on their streamer. I always eternally have some catching up to do, no matter how constantly I am watching things. Well this set will help! It hits the street on June 27th and you can pre-order it and see all of the specifics on Criterion's site. And here is the trailer for it too:
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The Arabian Nights didn't make it in there? That's my favorite of his. Salo is probably his greatest statement, though it's difficult to watch.
For some reason they limited this set to just his 1960s movies -- they have already released a set that includes Arabian Nights though!
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