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Eight films in an eight-disc digipak box set from Italian iconoclast Marco Ferreri. He brings a decidedly European slant to his 1981 Bukowski adaptation "Tales of Ordinary Madness," dragging his Italian crew to the streets of Los Angeles to find a seedy Hollywood of dim bars and cheap apartments for Ben Gazzara's skid row poet Charles Serking. In his best moments Gazzara kicks off his mask and drinks from the same bottle as his wino compatriots, but otherwise he's a grizzled intellectual knight of a poet, too poised to sink into rummy depths of his alcoholic character. "Seeking Asylum" stars Roberto Benigni as an unconventional kindergarten teacher, part doting dad-figure, part anarchist. The humor is more Ferreri than Benigni, but the actor delivers a curiously introspective and certainly unpredictable performance. Ferreri's 1973 satire "La Grande Bouffe," his most notorious film, stars Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret as friends tired of living who decide to go out in grand, indulgent style in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food and call girls. Also features "El Cochecito," "The Seed of Man," "Don't Touch the White Woman," "Bye Bye Monkey" and "The House of Smiles," plus the bonus documentary "Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came From the Future," and a 16-page booklet.
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