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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... traces of French and English in her Italian verse, and is famous for employing what Pier Paolo Pasolini called a “lapsus”: a slippage between languages that makes her poetry strange to the Italian ear.'
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... 1959, she starred in Mauro Bolognini's La Notte Brava, one of the first films co-scripted by Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was not too happy about the casting of French actors such as Laurent Terzieff and Jean-Claude Brialy to play his Roman toughies, but approved of the choice of the actresses, Elsa Martinelli and Schiaffino. In 1962 she appeared in Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another...
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Out West Arts (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... seem endless. But if your taste in film runs less toward The Little Mermaid and more toward Pier Paolo Pasolini, you might find the wait for Salo! 120 Days of Showtunes insurmountable. However, in Los Angeles this week, you’ll be thrilled to know that Polish theater collective TR Warszawa have brought their version of Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema, now entitled , to the Freud...
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Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... – Dimitri Mitropoulos – Greek Conductor – Born 1 st March 1896 1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini – Italian Poet / Director / Journalist / Philosopher / Author / Columnist / Actor / Painter / Film Critic / Murder Victim – Born 5 th March 1922 1978 – Henry Willson – US Actors’ Agent – Born 31 st July 1911 1994 – David B Feinberg...
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... was worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as such visionary, abstract filmmakers as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luis Bunuel and Federico Fellini. Impressive. Producers Arcadiy Golubovich and Olga Mirimskaya , along with the help of Parallel Films are pushing the film along through pre-production, and I'm sure Jodorowsky couldn't be happier. We'll keep an eye on this one, if anything,...
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How May I inconvenience You Today? (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
“Too often a great mistake is made in discussions about censorship: that of putting the debate in the terms proposed by the censors; that is of the moralistic-sexual. Instead it is quite otherwise: one must completely ignore their hypocritical pretext, and see what should be obvious to a child, that censorship is a political issue, with sex as a simple and shameless pretext.” -Pier Paolo Pasolini...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... was a sensation in a London production of the Strauss opera that took as its inspiration Pier Paolo Pasolini’s incomparably perverse film, “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.” The new “Salome” comes by way of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and was considerably tamer. Directed by choreographer Seán Curran, with dramaturge help from James Robinson, it looks back to the early 20th century...
