Pier Paolo Pasolini
Birthday: 1922-03-05
Place of Birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Biography: Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, becoming a highly controversial figure in the process.
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The Canterbury Tales
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of hi...
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Cinéma et Réalité
In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini tal...
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The Decameron
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of cur...
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The Walls of Sana'a
The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled...
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Kill and Pray
A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova
The documentary focuses on some decisive encounters for Pasolini's intellectual parable with the gre...
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Notes from a Critofilm
Reflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real language o...
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Pasolini prossimo nostro
We are on the set of "Salò or the 120 days of Sodom". Pasolini lets a small camera team led by the j...
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Scouting in Palestine
In 1963, accompanied by a newsreel photographer and a Catholic priest, Piero Paolo Pasolini traveled...
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The Hunchback
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in ...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd ...
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Reunion; Salo
Artist Adam Chodzko seeks to reunite the actors and actresses who played the victims in the film, Sa...
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The Ashes of Pasolini
Lyrical and fascinating documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film includes well-chosen fragmen...
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Oedipus Rex
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and t...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
Portrait of the most rebellious of directors, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The artist marked his time by cre...
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Io sono nata viaggiando
A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema ...
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Notes Towards an African Orestes
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a bla...
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Notarangelo the Soul Hunter
David Griecos documentary showcases the underappreciated photography of Domenico Notarangelo, and th...
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Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest ...
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The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capt...
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In a Future April: The Young Pasolini
A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct ...
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Callas Assoluta
This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned sopran...
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Pasolini on 'Porcile'
Pier Paolo Pasolini talks about making his film 'Porcile', and about casting Pierre Clémenti and Jea...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
A documentary that recounts the impressively lucid visions and gazes with which Pasolini described a...
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Pasolini and the Form of the City
Documentary about the Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia....
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Pasolini l'Enragé
The first "filmed portrait" of Pasolini was created by French television in July 1966 as part of the...
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The Ashes of Pasolini
Created in 2009 by Alfredo Jaar, The Ashes of Pasolini is a short film commemorating the life of the...
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Love Meetings
Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing ...
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Via Pasolini
A documentary featuring archival footage of Pasolini discussing his views on language, film, and mod...
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Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly ...
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Salò: Yesterday and Today
A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-film...
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The Isle of Medea
On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen b...
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La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives o...
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, h...
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry....
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Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, an acclaimed modern American poet living in Rapallo, was tried for treason because of hi...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-7...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi
Portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini and his literary and cinematographic activity in the proletarian Rom...
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Notes for a Film in India
A 1968 short documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini where he visits India in the search of a king w...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life
Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his actor...
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Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?
It is a chronological compilation of film clips, awards ceremonies and brief period interviews gathe...
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Il falso bugiardo
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen p...
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S.P.Q.R.
In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness and ...
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Vor mir der Süden
3,700 km of coastline, a Fiat 1100, and an old travel diary, those are the ingredients for Pepe Danq...
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L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini
On September 14, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini played his last game of football, before his death, in Sa...
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Pasolini's Last Words
This elegiac essay explores the year leading up to Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder in 1975. Through sta...
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Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)
Some of the scenes cut from the final editing of Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini, fortunately found by ...
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Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
A sequence of unpublished photographs by Deborah Beer taken during the filming of the torture scenes...
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Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of hi...
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Pasolini, la passion de Rome
For Pasolini, Rome is neither just a simple setting or a place to live. Rome had a physical, carnal ...
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Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film...
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Arruso
In relation to some of Pasolini's visits to Palermo for this last film, in 2000 Ciprì and Maresco sh...
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Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
A journey behind the shooting on the set of Salò, a backstage by Gideon Bachman, recorded during the...
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Volgar Eloquio
Volgar Eloquio is a performance-based video work depicting the typing of a poem by Pasolini, Versi d...
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Sfuge (apres Varda)
Sfuge presents fleeting glimpses of Pasolini as he walks through New York City, appropriating moment...
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