Product Details

• Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Roberto Benigni, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Ben Gazzara
• Directors: Marco Ferreri
• Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, French, Italian, Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 8
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Koch Lorber Films
• DVD Release Date: August 19, 2008
• Run Time: 850 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00199PPBU
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #59,915 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Marco Ferreri: The Collection (contains La Grande Bouffe, El Cochecito, The Seed of Man, Don't Touch the White Woman, Bye Bye Monkey, Seeking Asylum, Tales of Ordinary Madness, The House of Smiles)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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"Style is the answer to everything," intones skid row poet Charles Serking, played by the suitably grizzled and worn Ben Gazarra, to his somnambulistic audience. Serking is, of course, a not-at-all veiled stand-in for beat legend Charles Bukowksi, whose autobiographical short stories were the basis for this film. But Serking, in many ways, comes off more like a gin-soaked fantasy of a skid row Hemingway whose sports of choice are alcohol, women, and sex. Behind the salt-and-pepper beard and rummy eyes lies an actor too poised to allow himself to fully sink into the alcoholic sloppiness that Mickey Rourke so easily brought to the screen in the less pretentious and more concise Barfly, which Bukowski himself scripted. But if Italian-born director Marco Ferreri stumbles over the self-conscious dialogue, he's right at home capturing the seedy atmosphere of dim, run-down apartments and underlit bars in the real Hollywood Serking calls home. When Serking's fling with the stunning, self-mutilating Italian hooker Cass (Ornella Muti, who puts her oversized safety pin to some rather startling uses) becomes too emotional, he takes the anonymous safety of the streets--crashing in a flophouse, passing around a bottle with a listless knot of derelicts. Serking melds right in with the littered streets and lost souls, a real man of the people. Suddenly you see it: he's got style. --Sean Axmaker

Product Description
Marco Ferreri's satirical and often surreal films embody a unique vision of humanity borne of exasperation and nihilism. Through these genre-bending masterpieces, the controversial director crafted a fiercely contemporary cinematic language of his own, delving deep into the alienation of men, women and children.

Includes the films:
El Cochecito (1960; B&W; Spanish with English subtitles)
The Seed of Man (1969; Italian with English subtitles)
La Grande Bouffe (1973; French with English subtitles)
Don’t Touch the White Woman (1974; French with English subtitles)
Bye Bye Monkey (1978; English)
Seeking Asylum (1979; Italian with English subtitles)
Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981; English)
The House of Smiles (1988; Italian with English subtitles)

ALSO INCLUDES:
Bonus Documentary "Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came From the Future"
Marco Ferreri Interview with Ed Grant
16-page booklet featuring critical essay by Italian film scholar Jacqueline Reich