Pier Paolo Pasolini
Also Known As: Paul Pasolini, P.P. Pasolini, Пьер Паоло Пазолини, პიერ პაოლო პაზოლინი, 皮埃尔·保罗·帕索里尼
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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: March 05, 1922
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 02, 1975
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The Canterbury Tales
Overview: Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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Cinéma et Réalité
Overview: In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Decameron
Overview: A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.
Genres: History Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-25
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The Walls of Sana'a
Overview: The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled with medieval architecture and culture. But that same culture was about to disappear with the country's modernization which came after the civil war in the 1960's. To impeach such modern invasion, director Pasolini pledges to UNESCO for the recognition of Sana'a as a World Heritage Site.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Pasolini maestro corsaro
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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La Rabbia di Pasolini
Overview: An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of La rabbia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Kill and Pray
Overview: A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spoken, devout young man with perfect shooting skills (despite being a pacifist). On his journey to help his half-sister out of a complicated situation, he crosses paths with the men who killed his family, unbeknownst to him.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-03-10
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova
Overview: The documentary focuses on some decisive encounters for Pasolini's intellectual parable with the great Oscars of Italian cinema: from Bernardo Bertolucci to Dante Ferretti, from Ennio Morricone to Danilo Donati.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-03-01
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Notes from a Critofilm
Overview: Reflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real language of cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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Pasolini prossimo nostro
Overview: We are on the set of "Salò or the 120 days of Sodom". Pasolini lets a small camera team led by the journalist Gideon Bachmann follow him around engaging him in a long and extraordinary interview/conversation. The interview turns into a long, clear-sighted and violent attack on society that accompanies photos of the set in a surprising juxtaposition of film and reality, revealing Pasolini's metaphorical portrait of modernity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-11-24
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Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-11-21
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Scouting in Palestine
Overview: In 1963, accompanied by a newsreel photographer and a Catholic priest, Piero Paolo Pasolini traveled to Palestine to investigate the possibility of filming his biblical epic The Gospel According to Matthew in its approximate historical locations. Edited by The Gospel‘s producer for potential funders and distributors, Seeking Locations in Palestine features semi-improvised commentary from Pasolini as its only soundtrack. As we travel from village to village, we listen to Pasolini’s idiosyncratic musings on the teachings of Christ and witness his increasing disappointment with the people and landscapes he sees before him. Israel, he laments, is much too modern. The Palestinians, much too wretched; it would be impossible to believe the teachings of Jesus had reached these faces. The Gospel According to Matthew was ultimately filmed in Southern Italy. Mel Gibson would use some of the same locations forty years later for The Passion of the Christ.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-07-11
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The Hunchback
Overview: Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-30
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
Overview: Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-by to the beat of the Doors. Recovered from the French director's boxes, with images of Varda, Pasolini and New York. Pasolini is shown walking in the Big Apple (where he went to present 'Hawks and Sparrows').
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-24
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Reunion; Salo
Overview: Artist Adam Chodzko seeks to reunite the actors and actresses who played the victims in the film, Salo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Ashes of Pasolini
Overview: Lyrical and fascinating documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film includes well-chosen fragments from his oeuvre and many unknown interviews with the sharply-quipping master, dug up in the Italian TV archives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-02-12
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Oedipus Rex
Overview: In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-07
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Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
Overview: Portrait of the most rebellious of directors, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The artist marked his time by creating provocative and polemical works. The Italian filmmaker reminds us of the importance of maintaining a critical point of view towards the system before evoking his childhood in Italy and his first literary and cinematographic works.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-03
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Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-16
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Io sono nata viaggiando
Overview: A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. An in-depth story of this fascinating woman's life. Maraini's memories come alive through personal photographs taken on the road as well as her own Super 8 films shot almost thirty years ago.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-11-11
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Notes Towards an African Orestes
Overview: The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-11-29
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Notarangelo the Soul Hunter
Overview: David Griecos documentary showcases the underappreciated photography of Domenico Notarangelo, and through it, tells the story of Matera, it's people and it's history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-05-03
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Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
Overview: A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest performers of the Arte della Luce and of photography in movement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Overview: The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent Italy, the one inhabited by Anna Magnani and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a country that no longer exists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-23
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In a Future April: The Young Pasolini
Overview: A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct cousin, writer and poet Nico Naldini.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-11-02
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Fils de Punk
Overview: A director is interested in the punk movement and outsiders. Following a meeting with a music group, he plans to make a documentary about it.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
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Callas Assoluta
Overview: This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned soprano Maria Callas, from her troubled childhood in New York City to her scandal-laden but triumphant international career in opera. Featuring archival interviews with Callas herself and footage of contemporaries such as her lover Aristotle Onassis, this celebration of "La Divina" pays tribute to her enduring legacy some three decades after her death.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-20
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Pasolini on 'Porcile'
Overview: Pier Paolo Pasolini talks about making his film 'Porcile', and about casting Pierre Clémenti and Jean-Pierre Léaud as the film’s lead actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-10-13
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Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
Overview: A documentary that recounts the impressively lucid visions and gazes with which Pasolini described and experienced the lands from his Casarsa eastward, through Idria, the Grado lagoon and finally Istria. The border, understood as a physical, historical and geographic but also metaphorical limit, is an interesting key to recount Pasolini's life: a journey that allows us to tell some lesser-known sides of the life of a great intellectual of the last century, who with keen anticipation glimpsed profound truths about the cultural and social changes taking place.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-12-27
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Pasolini and the Form of the City
Overview: Documentary about the Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-07
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The Song of Assisi
Overview: In 1967, I decided to visit Avila where I had an enlightening experience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-31
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Pasolini l'Enragé
Overview: The first "filmed portrait" of Pasolini was created by French television in July 1966 as part of the prestigious series Cinéastes de notre temps, directed by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe. Interviewed on the streets of the Roman suburbs and in his studio, Pasolini analyzes his dramatic relationship with Italian society and retraces the trajectory of his works up to Hawks and Sparrows.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-15
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The Ashes of Pasolini
Overview: Created in 2009 by Alfredo Jaar, The Ashes of Pasolini is a short film commemorating the life of the famous Italian filmmaker, writer and thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-08-27
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Love Meetings
Overview: Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-07-05
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Via Pasolini
Overview: A documentary featuring archival footage of Pasolini discussing his views on language, film, and modern society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
Overview: Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on the many edits and cut scenes that were made before the film's release.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-06-30
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Salò: Yesterday and Today
Overview: A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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The Isle of Medea
Overview: On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this film celebrates the genius and sensibility of two icons of the XX century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-08-31
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La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
Overview: The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives of a laboratory in Rome, and recently re-discovered.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
Overview: Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Overview: A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Pasolini interviews Ezra Pound
Overview: Ezra Pound, an acclaimed modern American poet living in Rapallo, was tried for treason because of his radio broadcasts extolling Mussolini. This is Pasolini's interview with him.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce
Overview: Interactive documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-10-24
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
Overview: In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he documented the sexual behavior of the Italians. In the winter of 1970-71, he witnessed the hardships of the most impoverished Italian population suffering from the boot of state power. After these three trips, he came to the conclusion that Italian society had changed drastically for the worse over the years.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-10-21
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Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-11-30
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi
Overview: Portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini and his literary and cinematographic activity in the proletarian Rome.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Notes for a Film in India
Overview: A 1968 short documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini where he visits India in the search of a king who could give up his body to feed a starving tiger.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-18
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Second Look: Fellini
Overview: A four-part documentary series about the Italian director Federico Fellini. Episode 1: His Childhood, His Beginnings; Episode 2: His First Films; Episode 3: His Films with Giulietta Masina; Episode 4: "La dolce vita" and Neorealism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life
Overview: Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his actors and friends.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-01
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Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?
Overview: It is a chronological compilation of film clips, awards ceremonies and brief period interviews gathered by journalist Sandro Lai.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-08-10
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Il falso bugiardo
Overview: Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-07-03
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S.P.Q.R.
Overview: In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness and late capitalist myths of happiness". The protagonists: an American hustler, a drama student, a Munich waitress and her boyfriend who hope for money, a career and luck from a trip to Rome together.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-07-10
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Vor mir der Süden
Overview: 3,700 km of coastline, a Fiat 1100, and an old travel diary, those are the ingredients for Pepe Danquart’s documentary. Following the footsteps of the great Italian thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the filmmaker gains a deep insight into the social reality of present-day Italy. The country is massively affected by globalization, migration and the phenomenon of mass tourism, which, more than ever, is characterised by the same hedonistic conformity that Pasolini lamented more than fifty years ago. Ahead of me the South is a poetic contemporary document, a kaleidoscopic picture of the Italy of today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-07-01
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L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini
Overview: On September 14, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini played his last game of football, before his death, in San Benedetto del Tronto. “The last match of Pasolini” starts from a pretext of a football game, to tell a historical period that was fundamental for the whole of Italy, with its contradictions and tragedies, through an apparently playful vision of Pasolini, but that allows us to understand better the importance of the Italian poet and director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-11-02
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Pasolini's Last Words
Overview: This elegiac essay explores the year leading up to Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder in 1975. Through staging scenes from his last, unfinished novel, to exploring his polemical essays, and his first and last film, this experimental biography documents the final words of one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-02
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Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)
Overview: Some of the scenes cut from the final editing of Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini, fortunately found by L’Officina - a historic Roman film club born in the 1970s - on the initiative of Cinemazero in Pordenone have been preserved and digitized at the Cineteca del Friuli. These materials, with the care of the Pasolini scholar Luciano De Giusti, have been reassembled, accompanied by texts / readings and original music by Paolo Corberi: here are the "Visions of the Medea (traces of a dreamed film)", now a very important document to reconstruct the creative process of production and reliving the poetic / lyrical aura of the film's protagonists and places, including the lagoon of Grado (GO).
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
Overview: A sequence of unpublished photographs by Deborah Beer taken during the filming of the torture scenes on the set of "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom" is accompanied by the voice - recorded by Gideon Bachmann - of Pier Paolo Pasolini who directs the actors: a portrait of the director and his way of working that testifies its determined and passionate “filmmaking"
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Overview: Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment. Is there an answer to everything? Can it possibly be? If yes, then life can no longer be so curious, so dynamic, so creative...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-09-05
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imagenaction
Overview: The confrontation of reality and dream.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-05
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Was Ist Kino ?
Overview: A "tribute" from Adam Bensoltane to his idols
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-12
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Pasolini, la passion de Rome
Overview: For Pasolini, Rome is neither just a simple setting or a place to live. Rome had a physical, carnal and passionate existence for the man and the poet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-22
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Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
Overview: Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family roots, hiding during World War II, teaching, moving to Rome, being arrested and acquitted many times, publishing poems, getting into film, being provocative, and being murdered. Interviews with Alberto Moravia, Laura Betti, Maria Antonietta Macciocch, and Bernard Bertolucci are inter-cut with readings of Pasolini's poems and with clips from four films - primarily the Gospel According to St. Matthew - to illustrate his changing ideas and points of view. Bregstein makes a case for Pasolini's being lynched.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-28
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Arruso
Overview: In relation to some of Pasolini's visits to Palermo for this last film, in 2000 Ciprì and Maresco shot Arruso, which begins with a phrase by Pasolini ("I banished the word hope from my vocabulary") and consists of imaginary interviews with some local characters who are presumed to have had homosexual relationships with the director. The two record the testimonies, sometimes affectionate others less, of those who had the opportunity to meet him and know the trends on the occasion of that trip.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-11-13
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