Pasolini: A Life of Violent Compulsion

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 15, 1992 ;     700+ words ......the protagonista." Pasolini became even more...filmmaking. His films, beginning with...government censors. His films were often being...brought against Pasolini's work. In a smaller...since just after Pasolini's death, is exhaustive...plots of each of Pasolini's films, the ...

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

The Nation;  February 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ......lives ... Time has doted on Pasolini's friends, countrymen and...celebrated Pier Paolo. His films have never gone into full...Yeats. Though the young Pasolini worshiped language, mad...also in these years that Pasolini began writing sketches about...translation by Marina Harss. Pasolini's ...

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Who's Who in the Twentieth Century;      210 words ...Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922–1975) Italian film director and writer, whose films caused considerable controversy with...politics and uninhibited sexual content. Pasolini was born in Bologna and educated at the university there. He began in films as a scriptwriter in the early 1950s...that he ...

Film: Poetry in motion pictures Film offers endless opportunities for...

The Independent - London;  April 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......great neglected genius, Pasolini. "To make films is to be a poet," is the Pasolini quote that heads the printed...poets, quite aside from his films." In an intriguing mirror...obsession, it seems that Pasolini began writing as a poet...

Reviving Pasolini

The Village Voice;  July 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ......cunning fiction concealing the truth. As Who Killed Pasolini? illustrates, Pasolini did indeed pick up a young hustler on his final night...insulted manhood? Or was he merely the bait that drew Pasolini to a deserted area where he was brutally killed by...a political assassination? A week before his ...

Pasolini Requiem.

The Nation;  March 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...PASOLINI REQUIEM. By Barth David Schwartz. Pantheon. 785 pp. $35...presumably at the hands of a young hustler, Pier Paolo Pasolini remains 'for the Italians a ghost stuck in a time warp...his talents serves to keep his persona alive: There is Pasolini the poet, novelist and critic; Pasolini the ...

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...

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

Literature/Film Quarterly;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......misconception that, to quote Kenneth MacKinnon, both Pasolini's Medea and Edipo Re are "about Greek tragedy in a...follows I would like to redress the balance in favor of Pasolini as creative adaptor of ancient tragedy by demonstrating...characterizations. I think it best to emphasize here that Pasolini ...

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 ......things sexual were permitted, Pasolini made the achingly lyrical films Decameron (1971), Canterbury...sexual liberalization ; said Pasolini: If my films should happen to contribute...months before his death Pasolini waged a campaign as a political...

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

AP Worldstream;  October 11, 2005 ;     303 words ......attack. A Rome native, Citti was a close friend of Pasolini _ the famed film director and writer found beaten to...in the suburbs of the Italian capital. Citti helped Pasolini co-write the dialogue of some of his movies _ including...advice on the use of Roman dialect, a key element in Pasolini's social ...

The Sacred that Surfaces: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Barefaced Subjectivity

Film Ireland;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......re-shaping the form of cinema, Pier Paolo Pasolini was more interested in bringing primal...novelist, poet and theorist Pier Paolo Pasolini's Theorem (1968) contains a paradox in...sense of Theorem, but to make sense of Pasolini's work more broadly? How better to understand...

Who killed Pasolini?

The Independent - London;  September 23, 1995 ;     700+ words ......after his untimely death, Pier Paolo Pasolini is once again the talk of the literati...establishment has never comfortably accepted Pasolini's murder as the result of a mere homosexual...independently minded intellectual. Was Pasolini killed by one scrawny kid acting alone...

`Pasolini': Murder by Boredom

The Washington Post;  May 24, 1996 ;     260 words ......filmmaker-poet-agent provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1976 was a national tragedy. It also...for years have harbored suspicions that Pasolini was actually assassinated by his enemies. "Who Killed Pasolini?," Italian director Marco Giordana's...

City of Rome enters bid to reopen 1975 murder of filmmaker Pasolini

AP Worldstream;  May 10, 2005 ;     517 words ......half-century. The move came a day after Pasolini family lawyer, Nino Marazzita, urged...another interview, a director and friend of Pasolini, Sergio Citti, suggested that Italian...had wanted to get rid of the Marxist Pasolini, alleging they considered him a nuisance...