`Pasolini' works best as whodunit

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 14, 1997 ;     420 words ...Who Killed Pasolini? (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) Pino Pelosi Carlo...pickup, after homosexual advances. "Who Killed Pasolini?" Marco Tullio Giordana's engrossing...visionary and idealist. Though "Who Killed Pasolini?" intersperses documentary images...

`Pasolini': Italian case presses O.J. buttons

The Boston Globe;  October 18, 1996 ;     461 words ...WHO KILLED PASOLINI? Directed by: Marco Tullio Giordana...fascism are the big villains in "Who Killed Pasolini?," a well-intentioned docudrama that...Pasolini's grieving family. Ultimately, "Who Killed Pasolini?" turns into a loaded courtroom drama...

`Pasolini': Murder by Boredom

The Washington Post;  May 24, 1996 ;     260 words ......provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1976 was a national...harbored suspicions that Pasolini was actually assassinated by his enemies. "Who Killed Pasolini?," Italian director Marco...have a special interest in Pasolini, the movie is sure to be...sensationalistic material -- Pasolini ...

`Tongues': A Rough Cut

The Washington Post;  April 11, 1988 ;     700+ words ......play also brings up a question of conspiracy in Pasolini's murder. But Logan and Frisch are too eager to...and director might have provided more context for Pasolini's stature; relatively few playgoers will be familiar with the director's name or work. Images from Pasolini's "The Gospel According to St. ...

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...

Petrolio.

The Nation;  March 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...PETROLIO. By Pier Paolo Pasolini Einaudi. 591 pp. [Unavailable in a...hands of a young hustler, Pier Paolo Pasolini remains 'for the Italians a ghost...to keep his persona alive: There is Pasolini the poet, novelist and critic; Pasolini...

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...

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...