Lulu the Tool/The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Elio Petri)

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A quick note that Minerva's great release of director Elio Petri's Lulu the Tool a.k.a La classe operaia va in paradiso (1971) is back in circulation. Starring Gian Maria Volonté, Mariangela Melato, and Gino Pernice.

The release comes with optional English subtitles and a fantastic booklet with all of the content in English and Italian. Top transfer as well

p.s. You could also order a copy through Amazon's merchant Fictions, which is Raro's crew:
http://www.amazon.com/Lulu-Tool-Regi...=lulu+the+tool







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Mr. Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is now also coming to Blu-ray in the United States and Canada courtesy of Criterion.

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Blu-ray



https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=12163

The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri's most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (Gian Maria Volonté, in a commanding performance) investigating a heinous crime—which he committed himself. Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early '70s, Petri's kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.

Special Features:

New 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director's career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volonté
Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
Trailers
New English subtitle translation
One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by author and screenwriter Ugo Pirro

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