For over 40 years, Italian director Marco Ferreri stunned and shocked filmgoers with his daring cinematic visions. Politics, impossible relationships, alienation, madness and sexual frankness mark his confrontational films and on April 7, KOCH Lorber Films will release two acclaimed, international award-winners from the innovator’s canon. LA GRANDE BOUFFE, a 1973 U.S. theatrical release starring 3-time Academy Award®-nominee Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini’s 8 ½) and TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS, a 1983 U.S. theatrical release starring Ben Gazzara (The Big Lebowski, The Thomas Crown Affair). Both digitally-re-mastered films are presented with a 16x9 aspect ratio and Dolby Digital sound, feature an excerpt from the documentary “Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future” and will be available to world cinema aficionados for $19.98SRP each.
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TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS
Port Washington, NY -- For over 40 years, Italian director Marco Ferreri stunned and shocked filmgoers with his daring cinematic visions. Politics, impossible relationships, alienation, madness and sexual frankness mark his confrontational films and on April 7, KOCH Lorber Films will release two acclaimed, international award-winners from the innovator’s canon. LA GRANDE BOUFFE, a 1973 U.S. theatrical release starring 3-time Academy Award®-nominee Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini’s 8 ½) and TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS, a 1983 U.S. theatrical release starring Ben Gazzara (The Big Lebowski, The Thomas Crown Affair). Both digitally-re-mastered films are presented with a 16x9 aspect ratio and Dolby Digital sound, feature an excerpt from the documentary “Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future” and will be available to world cinema aficionados for $19.98SRP each.
LA GRANDE BOUFFE (The Big Feast) -- In Ferreri’s greatest international success, winner of the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize awarded at Cannes, four friends hire prostitutes and hole up in a Parisian villa for a weekend of debauchery with the ultimate goal of eating themselves to death. The film which Roger Ebert called “an experience [that] hammers your sensibilities” and about which DVD Talk said “shocking and disturbing…one of the great controversies in the annals of European cinema”, stars screen giants Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso), BAFTA Award winner Michel Piccoli (Contempt) and Ugo Tognazzi (La Cage aux folles). The film is presented in French with English subtitles.
TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS -- Although 1987’s Barfly is best known for bringing the written work of the late Charles Bukowski to the big screen, Ferreri’s production was the first to tackle his plastered prose. Based on Bukowski’s collection of short stories, “Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness,” Ben Gazzara stars in this autobiographical take as Charles Serking, an infamous poet and drunk who spends his time exploring L.A.’s squalid depths and dealing with the elusiveness of love. Ornella Muti (Flash Gordon, The Count of Monte Cristo) and Susan Tyrell (Cry-baby, Forbidden Zone) co-star in this film which captured two David di Donatello Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay.
About KOCH Lorber Films
Dedicated to providing the best in award-winning, classic and contemporary international cinema, documentary features and cultural programming, KOCH Lorber Films is a market leader for high quality releases to both wide and specialized audiences through theatrical, television and home video distribution. KOCH Lorber Films DVD releases include: the classic films La Dolce Vita, The Decline of the American Empire, Teorema and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and recent festival hits such as Intimacy, The Girl from Paris, Children of the Century, The Five Obstructions and Save the Green Planet. Visit KOCH Lorber Films online at www.kochlorberfilms.com.
