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Bernhart Schwenk and Michael Semff, eds. Pier Poolo Posolini and Death.(Book review)
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Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine
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October 1, 2006
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- Meyers, Todd; Baxstrom, Richard
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Bernhart Schwenk and Michael Semff, eds. Pier Poolo Posolini and Death, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006, 2.08 pp., ill. col. & b. & w.
Anyone convicted of blasphemy cannot be all that bad. The reasons for Pier Paolo Pasolini's censure by the Roman Catholic Church were not so much that he disparaged Christianity as his films demonstrated a dark terror underlying Catholic order. The church was right to denounce such films as La Riccota (1962) and Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964): the formal strategies Pasolini deployed submitted the bodies of Christ and his apostles to such corporeal excess that they became prosaic. ...
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Petrolio.
The Nation;
March 1, 1993 ;
Shepley, John;
787 words
...PETROLIO. By Pier Paolo Pasolini Einaudi. 591 pp. [Unavailable...of a young hustler, Pier Paolo Pasolini remains 'for the Italians...persona alive: There is Pasolini the poet, novelist and...j ournafist and gadfly; Pasolini the Christian Marxist; Pasolini the persecuted sexual ...
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`Tongues': A Rough Cut
The Washington Post;
April 11, 1988 ;
Joe Brown;
787 words
...Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's outspoken art and lurid...Jesus and the Marquis de Sade. Pasolini's brutal death at the hands...Logan is the first to mine Pasolini's story with his ambitious...this point. Logan opens with Pasolini as he stages the closing scene...
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Lust for life.(Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of...
The Nation;
February 9, 2004 ;
Scialabba, George;
787 words
......critic and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brings to mind some familiar...Time has doted on Pasolini's friends, countrymen...equally celebrated Pier Paolo. His films have never...Yeats. Though the young Pasolini worshiped language, mad...
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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
The Village Voice;
November 30, 2005 ;
Ng, David;
508 words
...THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI ByMichelAzama Abingdon Theatre...theories abound to this day: Was Pasolini killed by fascists? Or by...politicians he was investigating? Pasolini's biographical arc begs the...several formative periods in Pasolini's life-his intense relationship...
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Pasolini: A Life of Violent Compulsion
Chicago Sun-Times;
November 15, 1992 ;
Carol Anshaw;
787 words
...Pasolini Requiem By Barth David Schwartz. Pantheon. $35. Barth...biography 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...part was ...
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Reviving Pasolini
The Village Voice;
July 16, 1996 ;
Rich, B Ruby;
759 words
......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...seems to have dedicated his life to ...
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Outsider Art
The Village Voice;
November 28, 2007 ;
Gonzalez, Ed;
787 words
......Cinematic Pilgrimages of Pier Paolo Pasolini' Walter Reade Theater November...through December 4 Outsider Art Pier Paolo Pasolini made movies for and about the...existential compulsions, Pier Paolo Pasolini perpetually rebelled against moral...
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The Sacred that Surfaces: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Barefaced Subjectivity
Film Ireland;
May 1, 2007 ;
McKibbin, Tony;
787 words
......the form of cinema, Pier Paolo Pasolini was more interested in bringing...novelist, poet and theorist Pier Paolo Pasolini's Theorem (1968) contains...Theorem, but to make sense of Pasolini's work more broadly? How...irrational? Sex and religion Pasolini was obviously a filmmaker...
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Life, or Something Like It
Artforum;
July 1, 2004 ;
Morris, Daniel;
787 words
......PHILIP THE APOSTLE IN PIER PAOLO PASOLINI'S FILM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING...HAVE BEEN MORE UNEXPECTED. PASOLINI'S UNREPENTANT HOMOSEXUALITY...ultimately successful way. Pasolini traveled to the Basilicata...abbeys, and castles. But Pasolini did not spend much time in...
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Dangerous liaisons
The Independent - London;
June 5, 1997 ;
Roger Clarke;
787 words
......end of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, murdered in 1975, has long...night. After work, as usual, Pasolini got into his Alfa Romeo and...the Italian intelligentsia. Pasolini's fate was that of Socrates...producers of Nerolio think Pasolini is a gay icon, and have targeted...
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Film Tribute to `One of Greatest'
Chicago Sun-Times;
October 11, 1992 ;
Bill Stamets;
376 words
...Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini wanted "Salo, or the 120 Days...time" in her catalog for "Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Eyes of a Poet," a series...Moravia is president of the Pier Paolo Pasolini Fund, devoted to restoring and...
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Homage to Pasolini on the twentieth anniversary of his murder.(famed...
Monthly Review;
November 1, 1995 ;
Mage, John;
787 words
...Pier Paolo Pasolini, born in Bologna on March...Communist in the Friuli, Pasolini was accused of obscene...For the rest of his life, Pasolini was at the center of Italy...critical Communist, in 1964 Pasolini utilized the flicker of...
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A stranger in the house
The Independent - London;
April 27, 1995 ;
Atom Egoyan;
533 words
......Stamp is in the whole of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Theorem, but his performance...there was probably pressure on Pasolini to use a hot young English...gather he found working with Pasolini a frustrating experience because...he was receiving direction: Pasolini was quite removed, and quite...
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30 years after Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's slaying, calls for...
AP Worldstream;
May 9, 2005 ;
AIDAN LEWIS, Associated Press Writer;
468 words
......the investigation of Pier Paolo Pasolini's slaying may be reopened. Pasolini family lawyer, Nino Marazzita...a director and friend of Pasolini, suggested that Italian authorities...to get rid of the Marxist Pasolini, alleging they considered...
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