Abstract/Sommario: The debut feature of Italian filmmaker-novelist-poet-provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom; The Gospel According to Matthew; The Decameron), Accattone rocked the cinema world with its depictions, at once raw and elegant, of the underside of Roman street life and, in the process, seemed to announce a new direction for Italian films: a neo-neorealism. On the mean streets of Rome, Accattone's eponymous pimp (played by Franco Citti, one of a remarkable cast of lo ...; [Leggi tutto...]
The debut feature of Italian filmmaker-novelist-poet-provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom; The Gospel According to Matthew; The Decameron), Accattone rocked the cinema world with its depictions, at once raw and elegant, of the underside of Roman street life and, in the process, seemed to announce a new direction for Italian films: a neo-neorealism. On the mean streets of Rome, Accattone's eponymous pimp (played by Franco Citti, one of a remarkable cast of local non-professionals) leads a hand-to-mouth existence on the very margins of society: prostituting, scrounging, exploiting. When his prize prostitute Maddalena is arrested and jailed, the pimp's fortunes dwindle, and he is forced to confront his own existence.
Abstract/Sommario: Based on a story by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bertolucci's big screen debut is La Commare Secca (The Grim Reaper). After a prostitute is brutally murdered in a park near the Tiber river, the police track down people spotted in the park that night in hopes of catching the killer. The story is told in flashbacks as the suspects each give an account of their actions that night. With shades of Kurosawa's Rashomon and Pasolini's stirring screenplay, The Grim Reaper is one of the most impressive ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Based on a story by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bertolucci's big screen debut is La Commare Secca (The Grim Reaper). After a prostitute is brutally murdered in a park near the Tiber river, the police track down people spotted in the park that night in hopes of catching the killer. The story is told in flashbacks as the suspects each give an account of their actions that night. With shades of Kurosawa's Rashomon and Pasolini's stirring screenplay, The Grim Reaper is one of the most impressive cinematic debuts of all time.
Abstract/Sommario: Pier Paolo Pasolini's masterpiece stars Anna Magnani (Rome Open City) as the fiery Mamma Roma, a prostitute who attempts to better her life for the sake of her son, Ettore. But her efforts may be too late: Ettore is drawn to life on the street, and falls, ironically, for a younger prostitute. Anna Magnani shows why Roberto Rossellini and Jean Renoir considered her the best actress they had worked with in a passionate, tour-de-force performance as Pasolini's Mamma Roma.
Roma : Il Fatto Quotidiano ; [Roma?] : Aliberti editore, 2011
Abstract/Sommario: Iniziate a guardare La Rabbia come se fosse un reperto di un altro tempo. Di fatto lo è. Oggi che gli arrabbiati irrompono in streaming e i poeti sembrano il cascame di un passato che non tornerà, riascoltare Pasolini e Guareschi in lotta attraverso immagini e riflessioni restituisce tutto il tempo che è passato, la distanza di una intera epoca.
