2Dec08

Pasolini’s Rome

Ian Thomson has written a fascinating piece on Pier Paolo Pasolini for the Times Online, on the occasion of the publication of two books on the Italian filmmaker-writer-poet: John David Rhodes’s new study of Pasolini’s Rome, Stupendous, Miserable City, and a reissue of a volume of Pasolini’s journalism from the 1970s, Descrizioni di Descrizioni. Thomson uses Pasolini’s 1952 epic poem in honor of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, “The Ashes of Gramsci,” as an entryway to understanding the artist, his relationship to his adopted city and God, and his eventual brutal death, which nearly coincided with the release of Salò.

La commare secca

La commare secca

Bernardo Bertolucci

1962

93 min

Black and White

1.66:1

Mamma Roma

Mamma Roma

Pier Paolo Pasolini

1962

110 min

Black and White

1.85:1

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Pier Paolo Pasolini

1975

112 min

Color

1.85:1

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1 Comments

Mon 20 Apr at 04:57 PM

Jose

I’d love to see some other Pasolini’s films in this colection, like Decameron, Gospel according to matthew, and many others.

Also recomend to visit the Bolivian director’s site Jorge Sanjines (http://www.jorgesanjines.org) winner of the Golden Seashell in San Sebastian in 1989.

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