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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work survives as the bittersweet fruit of a hard-won and fiercely defended freedom. The film retrospective “Pier Paolo Pasolini,” organized by Jytte Jensen, remains on view through January 5 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Criterion Collection’s box set of the “Trilogy of Life” was released this ...
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone, 1961, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 117 minutes.Accattone (Franco Citti). The fly’s fleeting odyssey through the frame, coincident with Vivaldi’s concerto—a purveyor of putrefaction attended by Baroque splendor—announces, if accidentally, Pasolini’s strategies in Mamma Roma, which repeatedly fuse the sublime and the squalid, the exalted and the debased.
Dec 13, 2012 · Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il fiore delle mille e una notte (Arabian Nights), 1974, 35 mm, color, sound, 129 minutes. Photo: Rue des Archives/Granger Collection. PASOLINI WAS AN EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT figure in Italian and European culture, leaving his mark not only as a poet and filmmaker but also as a novelist, a journalist, and a theorist of ...
Nov 13, 2012 · Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Decameron, 1971, 35 mm, color, 111 minutes. PIER PAOLO PASOLINI’S so-called Trilogy of Life, which Criterion is reissuing today on Blu-Ray and DVD, consists of The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972), and Arabian Nights (1974). The explicit sexuality of these adaptations was what got everybody talking at the ...
By Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated from the Italian by William Weaver, New York: Carcanet, 1985 (published in Italy in 1959, and in England in 1968), 320 pp. “I WOULD LIKE TO make it quite clear to the reader,” writes Pier Paolo Pasolini, in a prefatory note to A Violent Life , “that everything he reads in this novel really happened, substantially, and continues really to happen.”
EPIPHANY OF THE OTHER: SEBASTIÃO SALGADO. The light was there, illuminating the roses and the portrait, and flags around them, perhaps, bundled up, in the humblest popular solemnity. —Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Divine Mimesis. THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEBASTIÃO Salgado leave remarkably durable afterimages that reappear long after one walks away ...
The Visitor (Terence Stamp). My latest movie, The Visitor, enacts a kind of détournement of Pasolini’s film, attempting to stay true to the original’s heart and soul while reconfiguring it in terms of contemporary queer themes and aesthetics. Teorema is already a deeply “queer” film, but the idea to “re-queer” it reflects present ...
Holzinger’s staging of SANCTA’s forty-plus cast members might call to mind scenes of excessive sexuality and violence in 1970s films like Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò (1975) and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain (1973). But unlike these directors, who use (or abuse) performers’ bodies, treating them as pawns of a kind through which ...
It makes sense that his next project is to make a film of the last hours of a more contemporary poète maudit, murdered during an erotic excursion—Pier Paolo Pasolini. The characters who cross before Jarman’s camera in Caravaggio smoke cigarettes, and, often, wear modern street clothes.
Hilma af Klint, The Swan, No. 21, Group IX/SUW, 1915, oil on canvas, 60 1/4 x 60 1/4″. The idea of a secret masterpiece seems ludicrous. Indeed, as Marcel Duchamp famously argued, a work of art needs to be known in order to be: Its existence depends on “the artist on the one hand, and on the other, the spectator who later becomes the ...
