The First Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Marina Cicogna is one of Italy's premier film producers, working with the likes of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Zeffirelli and Sergio Leone on films such as Once…
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Canterbury Tales , winner of the Golden Bear , is a 1972 Pier Paolo Pasolini film based on Chaucer 's story , which can be read online in language adapted for modern readers. The music is by Ennio Morricone . Tom Baker , my favorite Doctor, has a small role. You can watch it online here , if you don't mind the lack of English subtitles: It was a bit tedious for me, though, so I didn't make it very...
BBC - Radio 4 - The World Tonight (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
On Sunday 2 November 1975, the renowned Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini was found dead outside Ostia, near Rome. I was the one who broke the news to the world. I was working for Reuters in Rome at the time, and was sitting quietly in the office minding my own business when a colleague from the Italian news agency ANSA, in whose building Reuters was then based, popped in to tell me the news....
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Today is the anniversary of the murder in 1975 of Pier Pasolini . FilmReference.com has an extensive list of resources and begins their short article on his films by saying, "Pier Paolo Pasolini, poet, novelist, philosopher, and filmmaker, came of age during the reign of Italian fascism, and his art is inextricably bound to his politics." Senses of Cinema examines his career. There is a documentary...
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
LGBT people born today: 1906 – Luchino Visconti – Italian Director – Died 17 th March 1976 1916 – John Burnside – US Inventor – Died 14 th September 2008 1943 – Casey Donovan – US Porn – Died 10 th August 1987 1946 – Michelle Cliff – Jamaican / US Author / Poet / Literary Critic 1961 – KD Lang – Canadian Singer / Musician...
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
In the early hours of 2 November 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini – writer, poet, film director and one of Italy’s leading intellectuals – was found on wasteland in Ostia, just outside Rome. Several hours later, Pino “The Frog” Pelosi, a 17-year-old male prostitute, was arrested speeding along the Ostia seafront in Pasolini’s Alfa Romeo. Pelosi was accused...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is a diverse artist with an eclectic background that includes being a scholar, playwright, composer, actor, comic book writer, historian and psychotherapist. The man is a chameleon. In May it was announced that Jodorowsky was going to work with acclaimed director David Lynch on King Shot which was described as a "metaphysical spaghetti western." Though...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Reporting from San Francisco By all accounts, San Francisco is in love with Nicola Luisotti -- a 47-year-old conductor from Viareggio, Italy, and very Italian – as is he with his new city. Last month he became music director of...
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
1853 Arthur Rimbaud (d. November 10 , 1891), French poet ('Poésies'; 'Le bateau ivre'; Illuminations ) and lover of poet Paul Verlaine , who shot him and was sentenced to two years in prison. Rimbaud's main work was written in his youth; he published his first poem at age 16. Rimbaud wrote Une Saison en Enfer ( A Season in Hell ) in prose, widely regarded as one of the pioneering instances of...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Electronic music and DIY event sent my way via Noisecollective who will be present with an exhibition of DIY instruments. You can find more details in Italian here and Googlish here . Also on Noisecollective : - Voice of Saturn Review ( Googlish ) - FIVE12 Interview ( Googlish ) - Doepfer Dark Energy Review ( Googlish )
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Lars von Trier's new film “Antichrist” is but the latest in a long line of shock-tactic art films that date back to 1929. But in the age of “Saw IV,” Internet pornography, and unending real-life reports of torture and terrorism, aren't these bad-boy outrages looking a little tired?
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Mark Monahan reports on Sadler's Wells' tribute to the great Russian Impresario a 'mixed' bill in more ways than one. Rating:
Cinema Viewfinder (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
While shooting his sequence for RoGoPaG (1963)—"La ricotta," which featured Orson Welles—Director Pier Paolo Pasolini created a Marxist film out of found footage called La rabbia ( The Rage ) (1963). A restored simulation (more on that shortly) screened last night as the 47th New York Film Festival's opener for its 13th annual Views from the Avant Garde series, running this weekend....
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Italy/France Feature Film Original Title: Il vangelo secondo Matteo Writer/Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli Cast: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante, Ferruccio Nuzzo, Otello Sestili, Rossana Di Rocco, Paola Tedesco Although it feels a little rushed at times and could be somewhat confusing for those with merely a passing knowledge...
ESTHETICS (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
80% A vivid depiction of the depravity attendant upon using others as means rather than ends as well of unthinkingly following orders. This movie does not shy away from the implications of its theme: Humanity volitionally cut off from a positive purpose. It skillfully skirts the border between accurately analyzing degeneracy and being degenerate itself; its sordid catalogue of sexual perversions making...
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