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Mamma roma [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Criterion Collection, 2004.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975.

Prostitutes -- Italy -- Drama.

Motion picture producers and directors -- Italy -- Biography.

Italy -- Social conditions -- 1945-1976 -- Drama.

Criterion collection 236.

Alternate title:

Pier Paolo Pasolini [videorecording (DVD)].

Ricotta [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Double-disc special ed.

2 videodiscs (110 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

DVD release of a 1962 motion picture.

Special features (Disc 1): New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound, enhanced for wicescreen televisions ; poster gallery ; original theatrical trailer ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition ; Disc 2: Three new interviews about director Pier Paolo Pasolini: Bernardo Bertolucci, an assistant to Pasolini on his early films ; Tonino Delli Colli, cinematographer on eleven of Pasolini's fourteen films ; Enzo Siciliano, author of Pasolini: a biography ; Pier Paolo Pasolini (1995), a 55 minute documentary by filmmaker Ivo Barnabo Micheli covering the career of the controversial artist ; La ricotta (1963), a 35-minute film by Pasolini starring Orson Welles as a director who sets out to make a film about the Passion of Jesus ; PLUS: a 32-page booklet featuring excerpted interviews with Pasolini on Mamma Roma and La ricotta, and essays by novelist and cultural critic Gary Indiana and Pasolini biographer Enzo Siciliano.

In Italian with optional English subtitles.

Una produzione Arco Film ; produced by Alfredo Bini ; written & directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti and Silvana Corsini.

"Anna Magnani is Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Filmed in the great tradition of Italian neorealism, Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy, and highlights director Pier Paolo Pasolini's lifelong fascination with the marginalized and dispossessed. Though banned upon its release in Italy for obscenity, today Mamma Roma is considered a classic, featuring a powerhouse performance by one of cinema's greatest actresses and offering a glimpse at a country's most controversial director in the process of finding his style."--Container.

Urban drama (Films)

Biographical documentary films.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975.

Magnani, Anna, 1908-1973.

Garofolo, Ettore.

Corsini, Silvana.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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