Abstract/Sommario: Il film esce nell'edizione restaurata dalla Cineteca di Bologna presso il laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata, grazie ai materiali messi a disposizione dal produttore Gian Vittorio Baldi. Dai negativi 16mm scena e colonna sono state stampate matrici di conservazione 35mm.
Dalla Tanzania all'Uganda, Pier Paolo Pasolini percorre l'Africa cercando i corpi e i luoghi per un film in forma di "film da farsi", liberamente ispirato alla trilogia dell'Orestiade di Eschilo. L'Africa, che negli a ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Il film esce nell'edizione restaurata dalla Cineteca di Bologna presso il laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata, grazie ai materiali messi a disposizione dal produttore Gian Vittorio Baldi. Dai negativi 16mm scena e colonna sono state stampate matrici di conservazione 35mm.
Dalla Tanzania all'Uganda, Pier Paolo Pasolini percorre l'Africa cercando i corpi e i luoghi per un film in forma di "film da farsi", liberamente ispirato alla trilogia dell'Orestiade di Eschilo. L'Africa, che negli anni Sessanta stava dolorosamente uscendo da secoli di colonialismo, è vista da Pasolini come lo spazio di un processo di metamorfosi dal mondo arcaico alla modernità, dove l'irrazionalità primigenia deve coesistere con il "nuovo mondo della ragione". È la voce dello stesso Pasolini a guidare lo spettatore in un itinerario filmico che assume una natura eterogenea e 'impura' di saggio per immagini, analisi antropologica e diario di viaggio, con squarci visionari e poetici. Le immagini girate dal poeta-regista sui "silenzi profondi e paurosi" dell'Africa si confrontano a violente sequenze documentarie sulla guerra del Biafra, a un esperimento musicale con Gato Barbieri "nello stile del jazz", a brani di rituali primitivi funebri o gioiosi.
Abstract/Sommario: Written and directed by cult filmmaker Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant, Welcome to New York), this dark, daring drama tells the story of the fateful final days of the controversial filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. Having recently finished Salò, or 120 Days of Sodom Pasolini has enraged audiences, critics and politicians with his homosexuality and the scandal that surrounds his films. Focusing on both his private and professional life, the film explores the inner-world of Pa ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Written and directed by cult filmmaker Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant, Welcome to New York), this dark, daring drama tells the story of the fateful final days of the controversial filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. Having recently finished Salò, or 120 Days of Sodom Pasolini has enraged audiences, critics and politicians with his homosexuality and the scandal that surrounds his films. Focusing on both his private and professional life, the film explores the inner-world of Pasolini in the days before his violent death. Starring Willem Dafoe (The Last Temptation of Christ) as the great auteur, and featuring Ninetto Davoli, who acted in many of his films, Pasolini is a powerful and evocative look into the dark world of one of cinema's most controversial figures, as seen through the eyes of one of modern cinema's most astonishing and surprising directors.
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: 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: From its sung opening credits, Hawks and Sparrows (Uccellacci e uccellini) is a wonderfully free-form picaresque fable that lampoons politics, religion and the state of modern Italy, as the beloved comic actor Totò, Pasolini regular Ninetto Davoli and a talking crow wander the landscape through a gauntlet of unexpected encounters. Pigsty (Porcile) is one of his most controversial works, interspersing the mute wanderings of cannibalistic savages against a barren, volcanic earth with the ...; [Leggi tutto...]
From its sung opening credits, Hawks and Sparrows (Uccellacci e uccellini) is a wonderfully free-form picaresque fable that lampoons politics, religion and the state of modern Italy, as the beloved comic actor Totò, Pasolini regular Ninetto Davoli and a talking crow wander the landscape through a gauntlet of unexpected encounters. Pigsty (Porcile) is one of his most controversial works, interspersing the mute wanderings of cannibalistic savages against a barren, volcanic earth with the tale of Julian (played by Nouvelle Vague icon Jean-Pierre Léaud), his radically politicised fiancée Ida (Anne Wiazemsky, Au Hasard Balthazar), and the financial machinations of his father Herr Klotz in contemporary industrialised Germany.
Abstract/Sommario: Brutal and uncompromising, the films of controversial director Pier Paolo Pasolini have shocked and outraged audiences for decades, and their power remains undiminished to this day. Presented together for the first time, these six films stand as a testimony to his unique and untameable talents. In Theorem, a youthful Terence Stamp seduces each member of a bourgeois family. Medea features opera legend Maria Callas in a dark tale of betrayal and revenge. The Decameron, The Canterbury Tal ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Brutal and uncompromising, the films of controversial director Pier Paolo Pasolini have shocked and outraged audiences for decades, and their power remains undiminished to this day. Presented together for the first time, these six films stand as a testimony to his unique and untameable talents. In Theorem, a youthful Terence Stamp seduces each member of a bourgeois family. Medea features opera legend Maria Callas in a dark tale of betrayal and revenge. The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights from the bawdy 'Trilogy of Life', all with scores by the legendary Ennio Morricone. And Pasolini's final, shocking film, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, sees him pushing his art to extremes.
