Prophecy: Pasolini’s Africa
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini: 40th Anniversary The film explores, through poetry and cinema, Pasolini’s love for Africa and his hope of finding there the authenticity of peasant life and revolutionary force he had sought in vain in his native Friuli and in the villages around Rome. It was an Africa with […]
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The Gospel According to St. Matthew
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini: 40th Anniversary The birth, life, teachings and death on the cross of Jesus Christ presented almost as a cinéma-vérité documentary. Pasolini’s second feature seemed a strange choice for such a revolutionary director, but it is an attempt to take Christ out of the opulent church and present […]
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Serata di corti italiani
Selezionati da RIFF ( Roma Independent Film Festival) Corti Serata di corti italiani Selezionati da RIFF ( Roma Independent Film Festival)Corti: -Baùll Colour, HD, Italia 15’, 2014 Regista: Daniele Campea Scenografia: Antonio Secondo, Daniele Campea Montaggio: Daniele Campea Musica: Daniele Campea Suono: Daniele Guarnera Cast: Matilde Luccitti, Maxim Cipriani, Marcello Sacerdote, Mario Massari, Paola Lavini, […]
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VI edizione della Settimana del Cinema Italiano Contemporaneo
9-15 novembre 2015 ANKARA VIedizione della Settimana del Cinema Italiano Contemporaneo (9-15 novembre 2015)Film in visione: In grazia di dio (2013) di Edoardo Winspeare Noi credevamo (2010) di Mario Martone La variabile umana (2013) di Bruno Oliviero L’ultima ruota del carro (2013) di Giovanni Veronesi Tutti i santi giorni (2012) di […]
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Mamma Roma
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini: 40th Anniversary Anna Magnani is Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Filmed in the great tradition of Italian neorealism, Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy, […]
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The Hawks and the Sparrows
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini: 40th Anniversary The Hawks and the Sparrows, a wildly comic fable, stars the beloved stone faced clown Toto as an Italian everyman, and Ninetto Davoli as his good-natured but empty headed son. Pasolini uses a comic crow, which philosophizes amusingly and pointedly about the passing scene as […]
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Oedipus Rex
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini: 40th Anniversary A dark and riveting retelling of the classic tragedy “Oedipus Rex.” Unknown to himself, Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother. When the truth is discovered, he puts out his eyes and Oedipus wanders the streets until he is found by his daughter; Antigone, […]
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The Grim Reaper
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini: 40th Anniversary The brutalized corpse of a Roman prostitute is found along the banks of the Tiber River. The police round up a handful of possible suspects and interrogate them, one by one, each account bringing them closer to the killer. In this, his stunning debut feature […]
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Love Meetings
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini: 40th Anniversary Love Meetings is a cinéma-vérité investigation of sex in Italy, including impressive appearances by famed author Alberto Moravia and noted psychologist Cesare Musatti. Pier Paolo Pasolini, the poet turned filmmaker, appears as the interviewer and asks a wide-range of individuals to share their tales of […]
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Love and Anger: The Sequence of the Paper Flower
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini: 40th Anniversary The Paper Flower Sequence, from the anthology film Love and Anger (in collaboration with Bellocchio, Lizzani, Bertolucci and Godard) is a reference to the Gospel parable called ‘The Barren Fig Tree,’ where Christ strikes down a fig tree because it isn’t bearing fruit in March, […]
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