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Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 - 1975)
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Certain Realism : Toward a Use of Pasolini's Film Theory and
Practice by
Maurizio Sanzio Viano
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the
most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His
filmsAccattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Salcontinue to
challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist,
a homosexual, and a distinguished writer of fiction, poetry, and
criticism, Pasolini once claimed that "a certain
realism" informed his filmmaking. Masterfully combining
analyses of Pasolini's literary and theoretical writings and of
all his films, Maurizio Viano offers the first thorough study of
Pasolini's cinematic realism, in theory and in practice. He finds
that Pasolini's cinematic career exemplifies an
"expressionistic realism" that acknowledges its
subjective foundation instead of striving for an impossible
objectivity. Focusing on the personal and expressionistic
dimensions of Pasolini's cinema, Viano also argues that
homosexuality is present in the films in ways that critics have
thus far failed to acknowledge. Sure to generate controversy among
film scholars, Italianists, and fans of the director's work, this
accessible film-by-film treatment is an ideal companion for anyone
watching Pasolini's films on video.
"Superb. . . . In its careful handling of
the biographical and the autobiographical, the factual and the
speculative, this book will become a model for how studies of
individual directors should be done in the future." -- Peter
Brunette, author of Roberto Rossellini
 Teorema
(1968)
Pasolini's fusion of Marxism, sex and religion
stars a very young and attractive Terence Stamp as a divine
stranger who enters the household of a bourgeois family and
profoundly affects their lives when he seduces the mother, father,
son, daughter and maid. A surreal and sensual allegory with the
Pasolini postulation that the ruling class can be undermined and
destroyed by the one thing that it cannot control -- sex. Despite
winning the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival in 1968, the
film was publicly denounced by Pope Paul VI and banned as obscene
in Italy. Pasolini was arrested, but in a celebrated trial he was
acquitted of all charges. (Italian with English subtitles)
 Salo:
120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Pasolini's adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's
18th century novel places the action during WWII in Italy, where
Fascist rulers brutalize and debauch 16 adolescent girls and boys.
Pasolini's last film, soundly condemned at the time of its release
by Italian censors.
Pasolini's last film is an unbelievably bleak
and depressing vision of the human condition which shocked
audiences with its brutally graphic scenes of sexual degradation
and oppressive violence. The director transposes the Marquis de
Sade's novel about the debauching of the four pillars of 18th
century French Society to World War II Italy. A group of older
Fascists (men and women) bring together a group of teenagers of
both sexes and subject them to all kinds of sexual, mental and
physical degradation. (Italian with subtitles)
Pier Paolo Pasolini Filmography:
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This site offers an in-depth biography in
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian.
Excerpt:
Pasolini said among
other things: on me there's the sign of Rimbaud, or of Campana or
also of Wilde, whether I like or not, whether the other people
agree or not...
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From kara
art
The site has two sections:
The Permanent
Exhibition section presents some of his paintings / drawings
and also critical texts.
The second
section is dedicated to the cultural death issue including
important texts written especially for this site by Giuseppe
Zigaina, as well as other articles (English, Italian, German),
which are the contribution of further authors.
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In The Decameron, Pasolini appeared as a
disciple of the early Renaissance artist Giotto, commissioned to
paint a fresco for the church in a Neapolitan town. This is how
Pasolini looked on himself: as an artist, and as a disciple of
past masters. In his films, images of Renaissance art are
constantly evoked through visual cues...
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By Deborah Hochberg,
Metro Times
Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75)
was renowned as a controversial poet, novelist and essayist before
he even considered picking up a movie camera. His unique
sensibility was shaped by the mystical Christianity practiced by
peasants in the region of Friuli, where he spent his youth, as
well as Marxism, particularly the variant espoused by Antonio
Gramsci, founder of the Italian Communist Party. And then
there’s the well-known fact of his homosexuality, which he
sometimes experienced as some strange kind of excess grafted onto
his being...
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From encarta.msn.com
Italian motion-picture director and writer of
poems, short stories, novels, and essays, best known for his
controversial cinematic portrayals of individuals in conflict with
mainstream society. Born in Bologna, Italy, Pasolini published
poems at the age of 19, while studying at the University of
Bologna. His endorsement of Communism
during World War II (1939-1945) prompted his arrest in 1943 by
German forces then occupying Italy. Pasolini later escaped from a
German prison camp and settled in the countryside of Friuli,
Italy. In 1950 he moved to Rome, where he wrote poems, essays, and
stories influenced by theories of class struggle in the work of
Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci...
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