http://rarovideousa.com Raro Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:52:04 +0000 http://rarovideousa.com en http://rarovideousa.com/Waves-of-Lust-Available-July-3 http://rarovideousa.com/following/rarovideousa.com/Waves-of-Lust-Available-July-3 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:52:04 +0000 Raro 3105644 http://rarovideousa.com/Madness-dir-by-Di-Leo-Available-June-5th http://rarovideousa.com/following/rarovideousa.com/Madness-dir-by-Di-Leo-Available-June-5th Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:44:28 +0000 Raro 3105577 http://rarovideousa.com/Luis-Bunuel-Early-works-Box-Set http://rarovideousa.com/following/rarovideousa.com/Luis-Bunuel-Early-works-Box-Set Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:57:49 +0000 Raro 3096546 French Experimental Avant-Garde Silent Cinema Italy released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Will play on a computer. Synopsis: Luis Buñuel is known as the father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film. With financial assistance from his mother and creative assistance from Dalí, he made his first film, the 17-minute Un Chien Andalou in 1929, and immediately catapulted himself into film history thanks to its shocking imagery (much of which - like the sliced eyeball at the beginning - still packs a punch even today). It made a deep impression on the Surrealist Group, who welcomed Buñuel into their ranks. The following year, sponsored by wealthy art patrons, he made his first feature, the scabrous witty and violent L'Age d'Or (1930), which mercilessly attacked the church and the middle classes, themes that would preoccupy Buñuel for the rest of his career. Buñuel's rare documentary called Las Hurdes (or Land Without Bread) is about the Hurdanos, an inbred people who live in mid-western Spain (close to the Portuguese border). They live not only in squalor but their ridiculous suspicions can cause them starvation. They refuse to eat any of the other farm animals except disease-invested swine. Reviews: ""Un Chien Andalou" is a curtain-raiser. A movie like this is a tonic. It assaults old and unconscious habits of moviegoing. It is disturbing, frustrating, maddening. It seems without purpose (and yet how much purpose, really, is there in seeing most of the movies we attend?). There is wry humor in it, and a cheerful willingness to offend.The scandal of "Un Chien Andalou" has become one of the legends of the surrealists." Roger Ebert, Chicago Times <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3096546/350BoxBuuel_front.jpg" width="350" height="469" width_o="350" height_o="469" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3096546/350BoxBuuel_front_o.jpg" data-mid="15808000" border="0" align="left"/>Director Luis Buñuel Writer Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali for Un Chien and L'age, Luis Buñue for Las Hurdes Cast Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil for Un Chien and Gaston Modot, Lya Ly and Caridad de Laberdesque for L'age Cinematography Albert Duvenger Editing Luis Buñuel $35.99Free Shipping in the USSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> $40.99International shippingSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">RVDEUR041 Production: Italy – 1970, black and white and color Running time: 105 minutes total running time Language: Silent Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 RVDEUR041Special Features An interview with Franco Battiato Dry Martin (Buñuelino cocktail)A short film by A. Arrieta, 2009 Commentary on the films by Paulo Bertetto "A Video Thing" A visual essay by Enrico Ghezzi http://rarovideousa.com/Fraulein-Else http://rarovideousa.com/following/rarovideousa.com/Fraulein-Else Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:40:58 +0000 Raro 3091169 Classic Silent Cinema Italy released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Will play on a computer. Synopsis: Based on the novella by Arthur Schnitzler (who also wrote the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut), Fräulein Else tells the story of a father whose debts would be cleared if his beautiful daughter (the luminous Elisabeth Bergner in her first starring role) would consent to appear naked before the prospective savior. <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3091169/350 DVD_FruleinElse.jpg" width="350" height="472" width_o="350" height_o="472" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3091169/350 DVD_FruleinElse_o.jpg" data-mid="15774560" border="0" align="left"/>Director Paul Czinner Writer Arthur Schnitzler Cast Elisabeth Bergner, Albert Bassermann and Albert Steinruck Producer Erich Frisch and Artur Kiekebusch-Brenken Cinematography Karl Freund Camera Robert Baberske, Karl Freund and Adolf Schlassy Music Marlene Kuntz $25.99Free Shipping in the USSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> $30.99International shippingSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">RVDEUR043 Production: Germany-1928 Running time: 90 total minutes Language: Silent Color: black and white Audio: Dolby Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 RVDEUR043Special Features Special Features: Additional music score by Marlene Kuntz A fully illustrated bilingual booklet( Italian and English) Restored by the Bologna Cinematheque http://rarovideousa.com/Nespolo-Films-Visions http://rarovideousa.com/following/rarovideousa.com/Nespolo-Films-Visions Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:12:54 +0000 Raro 3090902 Italian Experimental Avant-Garde Cinema Italy released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Will play on a computer. Synopsis: Artist, filmmaker, designer, illustrator, bibliophile, Ugo Nespolo is one of the undisputed masters of contemporary art. For the first time on DVD this disc contains fifteen short films made over the past 45 years, starting from the new avant-garde of the 60s until today. Included are: "The Adventure of the gallant knight of happy face," "The cheeks on fire," "Neonmerzare", "Boettinbianchenero", "Hello, Michelangelo", "Concert Ritual," "A Super Male", "Going to Rome", "The Revolving Door," "Time After Time ", " A film by Ugo Nespolo with Edoardo Sanguineti ", " Superglance ", " The Years Garde ", " It's the time of Campari Central", and "Campari 150." From analog filming to digital, Nespolo confronts other audio-visual forms of the imagination, with the amused gaze of a cinephile, but also from the perspective of a visual artist, in the purest tradition of Dadaism and Futurism. Reviews: "Ugo Nespolo’s works bridge the worlds of the artist and the craftsman, the traditional and the modern, the child and the adult. The paintings, sculptures and other playful objects raised in the fantastic nursery of Mr. Nespolo’s imagination bring to mind that whole new race of Futurist toys proposed in the “Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe” which, it was envisaged, would not only delight children but also be “very useful to adults, too, keeping them young, agile, joyful, self-assured, ready for anything, indefatigable, instinctive and intuitive.”" The New York Times <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3090902/350Box_Nespolo.jpg" width="350" height="477" width_o="350" height_o="477" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3090902/350Box_Nespolo_o.jpg" data-mid="15773742" border="0" align="left"/>Director Ugo Nespolo Writer Ugo Nespolo Producer RaroVideo Cinematography Ugo Nespolo Editing Ugo Nespolo Music Assorted sound and track mixing$28.99Free Shipping in the USSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> $33.99International shippingSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">RVDEUR043 Production: Italy 1966-– 2010 Running time: 139 total minutes Language: Italian Subtitles: Optional English Audio: mono and stereo Aspect ratio: it varies from film to film RVDEUR043Special Features Introduction by Ugo Nespolo Nespolo Cinema (Documentary) A 100 pages fully illustrated bilingual booklet( Italian and English) http://rarovideousa.com/Don-Giovanni-directed-by-Carmelo-Bene http://rarovideousa.com/following/rarovideousa.com/Don-Giovanni-directed-by-Carmelo-Bene Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:28:50 +0000 Raro 3090613 Italian Experimental Avant-Garde Cinema Italy released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Will play on a computer. Synopsis: Based on the short story "Le plus bel amour de Don Juan" by Jules-Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly and Bene's own writings Don Giovanni is uniquely experimental as well as hailed as Bene's masterpiece. The movie features more of Bene's wild acting experiments. Stagy sets are used here, the actors overacting in a method that wanders between expressionism and raw madness. A family scene suddenly has the couple banging on teacups or fussing over some little girls face for a few minutes, Don goes into an energetic acting fit that looks like epilepsy while wrapped in steel wire, there is dizzying camera work and fight scenes are chaos, all the while jarring sounds and an incongruous recitation run in the background. Reviews: "DON GIOVANNI, a baroque and claustrophobic take on the incest episode of Mozart’s opera, features Bene as the eponymous Don, who spends much of the 72-minute running time crawling through a twisted heap of barbed wire. It follows the non-linear contours set by the earlier films, but new elements are introduced: a deliberately artificial stage-bound setting and a simultaneously eye-pleasing and off-putting color scheme utilizing splashes of red amidst near-bilious shades of orange. DON GIOVANNI is ultimately most significant as the jumping-off point for its creator’s drift away from the real-life settings and concerns of his previous films toward a hermetic arena of pure expressionism, a tendency that reached its apex in Bene’s next and most astonishing film." Fright <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3090613/350Box_DonGiovanni.jpg" width="350" height="465" width_o="350" height_o="465" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3090613/350Box_DonGiovanni_o.jpg" data-mid="15772089" border="0" align="left"/>Director Carmelo Bene Writer Taken from the short story "Le plus bel amour de Don Juan" by Jules-Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly and Carmelo Bene Producer Carmello Bene Cast Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, and Vittorio Bodini Cinematography Mario Masini Editing Mauro Contini Music Carmelo Bene $44.99Free Shipping in the USSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> $49.99International shippingSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">RVDEUR041 Production: Italy – 1970, black and white and color Running time: 90 minutes Language: Italian and partial English Subtitles: Optional English Audio: Dolby digital 2.0 Mono Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 RVDEUR041Special Features “ Uno Contro tutti” tv show with Carmelo Bene Interview with Lidia Mancinelli Interview with Maurizio Costanzo 2 DVD box set A fully illustrated bilingual booklet( Italian and English http://rarovideousa.com/Our-Lady-of-the-Turks-directed-by-Carmelo-Bene http://rarovideousa.com/following/rarovideousa.com/Our-Lady-of-the-Turks-directed-by-Carmelo-Bene Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:10:26 +0000 Raro 3089872 Italian Experimental Avant-Garde Cinema Italy released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Will play on a computer. Synopsis: Independent filmmaker Carmelo Bene makes his debut in this feature film that concerns the murder of the Saracens in the city of Otranto centuries ago. The virgin Mary appears at various time in the film, symbolic of the carnal desires and spiritual dreams of all men. Flashbacks and avant garde cinematic techniques provide passages of erotica and black humor on occasion. The story was taken from Bene's own novel as the author oversees all aspects of writing, production and direction in this experimental and provocative film. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Venice Film Festival Reviews: "Our Lady of the Turks" is a film that is hard to categorize. Then again Carmelo Bene's films are hard to define. Often beautiful, The film starts off as a sort of mocumentary about Ontranto, Italy. This is where the Turks tried to invade 100 years before; killing the Saracens. Then we are treated to Bene in front of the camera in a series of bizarre, surreal images and comical mishaps. Bene's character is taunted by the Madonna. Wherever he goes this beautiful virgin Mary is sure to follow, making his life a real headache. She is symbolic of man's desire and dreams. This is a film where visuals overpower story. It is quite a journey with it's bizarre experimental style, but altogether it's breathtaking" IDMB <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3089872/350BoxCarmelo-1A0402.jpg" width="350" height="465" width_o="350" height_o="465" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3089872/350BoxCarmelo-1A0402_o.jpg" data-mid="15769290" border="0" align="left"/>Director Carmelo Bene Writer Carmelo Bene Producer Carmello Bene Cast Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, and Ornella Ferrari Cinematography Mario Masini Editing Mauro Contini Music Carmelo Bene $21.99Free Shipping in the USSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> $26.99International shippingSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">RVDEUR041 Production: Italy – 1968 Running time: 124 minutes, black and white Language: Italian Subtitles: Optional English Audio: Dolby digital 2.0 Mono Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 RVDEUR041Special Features “Hermitage” a Short Film by Carmelo Bene A video interview with Carmelo Bene Fully illustrated bilingual booklet(Italian/English) A video interview with Enrico Ghezzi. “Ai Rotoli” a short film by Daniele Cipri and Franco Maresco Cut Scene Before and after the restoration video http://rarovideousa.com/Tragedia-Endogonidia-by-Societas-Raffaello-Sanzio http://rarovideousa.com/following/rarovideousa.com/Tragedia-Endogonidia-by-Societas-Raffaello-Sanzio Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:34:12 +0000 Raro 3089845 Italian Video Theatre Italy released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Will play on a computer. Synopsis: The Italian contemporary performance collective, Societas Raffaello Sanzio is one of the most recognized and sought after Italian companies of the past decade. Founding leaders of the company include Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci, and Chiara Guidi. For the first 20 years the works were directed and designed by Romeo Castellucci, the company creates works in the genre of the “Theater of Images” incorporating elaborate spectacles of theater machines, dense sound scapes, and narrative fragmentations. The performers onstage are a mix of the Casellucci family, Italian actors, real performers of extreme age, size, or physical conditions, and animals. In the past 5 years the company as fragmented to present separate works directed by Rome Castellucci, Claudia Castellucci, Chiara Guidi. Reviews: "In 2001 he initiated an ambitious three-year project: a nine-production cycle called “Tragedia Endogonidia” (or “Endogonidic Tragedy”), original performed spectacles, each commissioned for a different city whose landscape and past became part of the director’s subject. The cities included Berlin, Brussels, London and Rome. (After their premieres in the host cities the “Tragedia” works toured worldwide) The cycle’s cryptic title refers to one of Mr. Castellucci’s overall goals: to express “a tragedy of the future,” partly by making visceral allusions to Europe’s violent history. His compositions, along with his jarring and sometimes disturbing visuals, reflect his early training as a painter and set designer. His company’s name refers to the Renaissance artist Raphael and the many painterly perspectives Mr. Castellucci tries to incorporate into his stage compositions." The New York Times <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3089845/350TRAGEDIA_ENDOGONIDIA-RAFFAELLO_SANZIO-Gruppo_Editoriale_Minerva.pdf - Adobe Reader.jpg" width="350" height="473" width_o="350" height_o="473" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3089845/350TRAGEDIA_ENDOGONIDIA-RAFFAELLO_SANZIO-Gruppo_Editoriale_Minerva.pdf - Adobe Reader_o.jpg" data-mid="15770380" border="0" align="left"/>Director Romeo Castelluci Writer Romeo Castelluci Producer RaroVideo Cinematography Cristiano Carloni and Stefano Franceschetti Editing Cristiano Carloni and Stefano Franceschetti Music Scott Gibbons $55.99Free Shipping in the USSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> $60.99International shippingSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">RVDEUR043 Production: Italy – 2003 Running time: 340 total minutes Language: Italian Subtitles: Optional English Audio: Dolby Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 RVDEUR043Special Features 3 DVD BOX SET 1 Audio CD with music by Scott Gibbons "A Video Thing" A visual essay by film critic Enrico Ghezzi An 84 pages fully illustrated bilingual booklet ( Italian and English) http://rarovideousa.com/Films-of-Paolo-Gioli-2-dvd-Box-set http://rarovideousa.com/following/rarovideousa.com/Films-of-Paolo-Gioli-2-dvd-Box-set Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:30:51 +0000 Raro 3089817 Italian Video Theatre Italy released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Will play on a computer. Synopsis: Gioli's name is often associated with those Italian filmmakers who frequented the Cooperativa Cinema Indipendente centered around the Filmstudio in Rome. But this is really an over-simplification derived more than anything else from a need to classify this artist who is unique in the Italian world of film and whose research is particularly original. Gioli took nothing for granted in his investigation of the filmic apparatus; instead he explored its limitations. He wondered about screens (prior to the history of film, there must be a history of the screen as an object!), about projection, about the dark (someone must investigate the history of darkness in the history of film after the history of the rectangle in film!). He enhanced the aesthetic nature of negative images as opposed to the intrusiveness of positive images and he broke the rigid rule of the frame line. He invented a multilayer screen with color silhouettes to add color to his black and white films and used motion picture cameras without lenses on still figures to force them into motion even where there was none. His research was not formalist in a limiting sense; rather, he invented little stories which he filled with tragi-comic contents thanks to his highly skillful manipulations. Includes the films: - Commutazioni Con Mutazione - Del Tufarsi E Dell'annegarsi - Film Stenopeico - Filmarilyn - Filmfinish - Hilarisdoppio - Immag Dist Da Un Intenso Parassita - Immag Trav D Ruota Di Duchamp - Operatore Perforato (L') - Piccolo Film Decomposto - Quando L'occhio Trema - Secondo Il Mio Occhio Di Vetro - Traumatografo - Volto Telato. Reviews: "Even when using a conventional 16mm Bolex camera, Gioli often employs external shutters both natural and unnatural, in the form of jerry rigged sewing machine attachments or the intermittent trembling of springtime tree leaves set against the lens -“The resulting image is what the wind gives us.” This is only one area of Gioli’s film work however, many of his most intense films do not use pin- hole methods but do give a remarkable display of split- screen, overlapping negative and positive imagery, uncanny superimpositions and mirror images." The Film Comment <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3089817/350_PaoloGioli_front-1.jpg" width="350" height="495" width_o="350" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3089817/350_PaoloGioli_front-1_o.jpg" data-mid="15805618" border="0" align="left"/>Director Paulo Gioli Writer Paulo Gioli Producer RaroVideo Cinematography Paulo Gioli Editing Paulo Gioli $28.99Free Shipping in the USSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> $33.99International shippingSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">RVDEUR043 Production: Italy – 1972-2002 Running time: 203 total minutes Language: Italian Audio: Dolby RVDEUR043Special Features A fully illustrated bilingual booklet(Italian and English) A video interview with Paolo Gioli. http://rarovideousa.com/Video-in-Italy http://rarovideousa.com/following/rarovideousa.com/Video-in-Italy Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:28:11 +0000 Raro 3053178 Italian Experimental Avant-Garde Cinema Italy released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Will play on a computer. Synopsis Video in Italy is the first anthology dedicated to experimental video art in Italy and gathers what we think are the best authors of different backgrounds, age and geographical origin, who for many years have carried around their own electronic equipment filming the world with passion and rigor. The collected works were carried out over ten years and try to represent the variety of styles, poetic and technical processes that characterize our national landscape. In addition to an entire disk that contains extras on each author, the anthology is enriched by a bilingual critical examination booklet with interviews, fact sheets and biographies. <img src="http://payload37.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3053178/RVD 40088_VideoInItaly_front 350.jpg" width="350" height="495" width_o="350" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload37.cargocollective.com/1/2/69031/3053178/RVD 40088_VideoInItaly_front 350_o.jpg" data-mid="16865857" border="0" align="left"/>Various artists Alessandro Amaducci, Asia Argento,Bianco-Valente,Manuele Bossolasco, Cane CapoVolto, Carloni Franceschetti, Cipri e Maresco, Salvio Cuccia,Fabio Massimo Iaquone, Alessandra Pescetta, Monica Petracci, Silvia Bottiroli, Saul Saguatti, Studio Azzurro Producer RaroVideo Curator Bruno Di Marino Music Assorted sound and track mixing $34.99Free Shipping in the USSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> $39.99International shippingSRP $24.98 <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">RVDEUR043 Production: Italy 1996-– 2005 Language: Italian Subtitles: Optional English Audio: dolby surround Aspect ratio: it varies from film to film RVDEUR043Special Features 2 disc set with a illustrated booklet