Pasolini

Minds meet as Abel Ferrara explores the final hours of the Italian maverick

"...The Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is the subject of this film by American director..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mamma Roma

In this early Pasolini film marked by the director's sumptuous neo-realism, Magnani plays a middle-aged prostitute who retires from the trade to become a full-time mother to her 16-year-old son.

"...Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Starring: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini,..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Holiday Viewing: The Gospel According to St. Matthew

“The most sublime Texts ever written”

"...The Gospel According to St. Matthew, director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s straightforward retelling of that Gospel: the original story of..."

Dec. 20, 2017 Screens Post by Nick Barbaro

Tommaso

Abel Ferrara’s (self-)portrait of the artist in (self-)martyrdom

"...The middle of a triptych that began with 2014's Pasolini, Tommaso is shot tight, handheld and intimate. It’s deliberately..."

June 5, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Year One

Jack Black and Michael Cera are comic wanderers through the biblical era.

"...pic so obsessed with bodily discharge that it makes Pasolini's Salò look like an episode of Full House? What's..."

June 26, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dallas Doll

"...and child, both male and female, in Pier Paolo Pasolini's exceptional Teorema. Here the pansexuality plays like an in-joke..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Conviction

"...uttered in the same anticipatory breath as Bertolucci's and Pasolini's. His first couple of films in the late Sixties,..."

Nov. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Caro Diario

"...elegiac ride out to the spot where Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered. The second section is somewhat of a..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Che Bella

The Austin Film Society's series is called "Che Bella: Italy in the 60s," but the story really begins -- as does all of modern cinema -- in the streets of Rome, in May of 1944. Nick Barbaro looks at Italian neorealism and the movies it inspired.

"...Accatone D: Pier Paolo Pasolini (1961); with Franco Citti...."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Accattone

"...Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Starring: Franco Citti. I hadn't seen either of the..."

Feb. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Nick Barbaro

A Full Color Palette

Painter-Director Julian Schnabel's 'Before Night Falls'

"...AC: You've expressed your admiration for Pasolini's first film Accattone. And I can see some similarities..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Suggested Viewing

"...The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1966, Pier Paolo Pasolini)..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Divorce Italian Style

With loyalty to such cinematic emperors as Fellini, Pasolini, and Antonioni, the Criterion Collection's devotion to post-war Italian masterpieces is serious business. Seriously buffo, comico, spiritoso in the case of neo-realist Pietro Germi's 'Divorzio all'Italiana' (1962).

"...$39.95 With loyalty to such cinematic emperors as Fellini, Pasolini, and Antonioni, the Criterion Collection's devotion to post-war Italian..."

May 6, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Gospel According to Hollywood

Easter is a time for resurrectiing Hollywood's biblical epics.

"...white, and using only local nonprofessionals, director Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose mother plays Mary) achieves something extraordinary: Following Matthew..."

April 13, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

The Little Hours

Foul-mouthed nuns can't save this comedy

"...characters in a salacious Almodóvar farce than a medieval Pasolini tale. Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, and Kate Micucci play..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Last Days in the Desert

Ewan McGregor plays both Jesus and the devil in this secular imagining

"...with the imperfect holy men of a Buñuel or Pasolini movie than the irreproachable paragon that’s depicted in the..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rosewater

Jon Stewart makes his directing debut with this story about a journalist's imprisonment in Tehran.

"...his treachery: so-called pornographic DVDs of The Sopranos and Pasolini’s Teorema, and a magazine with Megan Fox on the..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Have Car, Will Travel for Film

CineMarfa

"...cinema's "bad boys" – Kenneth Anger and Pier Paolo Pasolini – are represented at the fest. Anger's half-hourlong "Lucifer..."

April 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Payback as Comeback

The Rude Mechs boost a resurgence with 'REVENGE!'

"...a casual exploration: The group made dinner and watched Pasolini's Il Decameron on VHS. (The consensus: It sucks.) They..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Steve Moore

Stage & Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir

The Criterion connection, Renoir-style

"...Mamma Roma (Criterion): Pier Paolo Pasolini preferred using nonactors, yet after his unforgettable debut Accattone,..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Pinocchio

"...does sport some clever production design from the late Fellini/Pasolini stalwart Danilo Donati and a whimsical score by Nicola..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Visitor Q

"...all stripes. Miike's film makes classic arty shockers like Pasolini's Salo: 120 Days of Sodom look like a kooky..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Schedule

"...Jan 30: Mamma Roma (1962, Pier Paolo Pasolini)..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature

A History of Collaboration

"...Pier Paolo Pasolini was still in college during the liberation of Rome,..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

A Chef in Love

"...overrun by the piggish soldiers are oddly reminiscent of Pasolini's Salo, and as Ichac's plight becomes all too apparent,..."

June 6, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Review: Scala!!!

The very punk history of London’s legendary art/grindhouse cinema

"...Scala over its cinematic legacy (more Iggy Pop than Pasolini)...."

Sept. 24, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, August 13-19

"...to commune with sanctified experiences. But filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) expressed a contradictory view. He wrote, "I am..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Niche Streaming Sites for the Holidays

Give the gift of worlds of entertainment just a click away

"...the content from both available at a click (alas, Pasolini's Salò is still absent), there is no way you..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Great Directors

Ten international filmmakers reflect on their careers and concerns for the medium

"...Pasolini. De Sica. Bergman. Fassbinder. Fellini. Hitchcock. Nope, those aren't..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

La Dolce Vita

Decadence, perhaps inevitably, dates itself: Fellini's much-censored 'La Dolce Vita' no longer shocks in its depiction of upper-class excess and listless living the way it did upon release in 1960, but it's a gorgeous artifact, nonetheless

"...then turned for advice to filmmaker friend Pier Paolo Pasolini – he of the magnificently depraved Salò – who..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

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