Pasolini Requiem.

The Nation;  March 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......sweep to the story as he tells it. He is good on Pasolini's early life in the northeast province of Friuli...by sexual scandal, moves to Rome, it may be that Pasolini's career had by now taken off in too many directions...toe on grotesque bits of writing and translation. Pasolini chides a friend for ...

`Tongues': A Rough Cut

The Washington Post;  April 11, 1988 ;     700+ words ...Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's outspoken art and lurid life provide...as Jesus and the Marquis de Sade. Pasolini's brutal death at the hands of a...Playwright John Logan is the first to mine Pasolini's story with his ambitious "Speaking...

Reviving Pasolini

The Village Voice;  July 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Filmmaker's Case Has Not Been Closed Who Killed Pasolini? is a passionate docudrama that introduces...brutal murder in 1975 of one Pier Paolo Pasolini, filmmaker, poet, essayist, Marxist...anniversary of the murder, Who Killed Pasolini? managed to do something that even a...

Pasolini: A Life of Violent Compulsion

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 15, 1992 ;     700+ words ...Pasolini Requiem By Barth David Schwartz. Pantheon. $35. Barth...of the Italian poet-novelist-film director Pier Paolo Pasolini with a detailed accounting of the days leading up to his subject's death. Like most of Pasolini's evenings, his last one - Nov. 1, 1975 - was a divided...

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

The Village Voice;  November 30, 2005 ;     508 words ...THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI ByMichelAzama Abingdon Theatre 312...theories abound to this day: Was Pasolini killed by fascists? Or by the corrupt politicians he was investigating? Pasolini's biographical arc begs the martyred-provocate...

Life, or Something Like It

Artforum;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......PLAYED PHILIP THE APOSTLE IN PIER PAOLO PASOLINI'S FILM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW...COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE UNEXPECTED. PASOLINI'S UNREPENTANT HOMOSEXUALITY, RENUNCIATION...inimitable and ultimately successful way. Pasolini traveled to the Basilicata and Calabria...

OBITUARY:Dario Bellezza

The Independent - London;  April 6, 1996 ;     700+ words ......attention, and the admiration, of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was to be one of the many literary...Executioner", 1973) was a revelation to Pasolini, who detected in it a violent conflict...neo-realistic movies of the post-war era. Pasolini's assassination in 1975 by a teenage...

Cinematizing the euripidean and sophoclean spatial dialectics: On the...

Literature/Film Quarterly;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......1 In an otherwise insightful essay on Pasolini's Edipo Re, Robert J. White denies any...In an equally compelling monograph on Pasolini, Maurizio Viano at least concedes that...Viano reinforces White's impression of Pasolini's ultimate disregard of the ancient tragedians...

Bernhart Schwenk and Michael Semff, eds. Pier Poolo Posolini and...

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine;  October 1, 2006 ;     414 words ......that bad. The reasons for Pier Paolo Pasolini's censure by the Roman Catholic Church...Matthew, 1964): the formal strategies Pasolini deployed submitted the bodies of Christ...This insistent, dark rigour marks all of Pasolini's work and, as the editors of Pier Paolo...

Dangerous liaisons

The Independent - London;  June 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ......gruesome end of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, murdered in 1975, has long haunted the...November night. After work, as usual, Pasolini got into his Alfa Romeo and drove out...proportions for the Italian intelligentsia. Pasolini's fate was that of Socrates, Sharon Tate...

A "cinema of poetry": What Pasolini Did to Chancer's Canterbury Tales

Literature/Film Quarterly;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1972 adaptation of The Canterbury...Tales, and Arabian Nights-to be one of Pasolini's more notable cinematic achievements...reproductions of Shakespeare's plays, Pasolini's film is surely disappointing. Moreover...

Homage to Pasolini on the twentieth anniversary of his murder.(famed...

Monthly Review;  November 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Pier Paolo Pasolini, born in Bologna on March 5,1922, and...and active Communist in the Friuli, Pasolini was accused of obscene acts with teenage...literary award. For the rest of his life, Pasolini was at the center of Italy's living...

Lust for life.(Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of...

The Nation;  February 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Chronicles of Rome, 1950-1966. By Pier Paolo Pasolini. Edited by Walter Siti, translated by...novelist, critic and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brings to mind some familiar lines from...by whom it lives ... Time has doted on Pasolini's friends, countrymen and sometime antagonists...

A stranger in the house

The Independent - London;  April 27, 1995 ;     533 words ......Terence Stamp is in the whole of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Theorem, but his performance only constitutes...co-production and there was probably pressure on Pasolini to use a hot young English star. But...piece. I gather he found working with Pasolini a frustrating experience because he never...

Italian director Sergio Citti, best know for his work with Pasolini, has...

AP Worldstream;  October 11, 2005 ;     303 words ......for his work with the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, died in a hospital near Rome on Tuesday...Rome native, Citti was a close friend of Pasolini _ the famed film director and writer...of the Italian capital. Citti helped Pasolini co-write the dialogue of some of his...