rewatched Abel Ferrara's Pasolini tonight. found it angrier than i remembered it, suitably angry tbh. such a sense of waste at the end.
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
That jim in glasgow story, two posts up, is awesome.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 December 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
“Pino Pelosi, a former rent boy convicted in the 1975 murder of writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini, died of cancer in a Rome hospital aged 58 Wednesday night,” reports ANSA. “Pelosi confessed to murdering Pasolini the day after his death on November 2, 1975 but several years later retracted his confession, fueling conspiracy theories that the iconic leftist gay novelist, poet and filmmaker had been assassinated by political opponents. Pelosi was found guilty in 1976 of murder along with unknown others; the court ruled he was not alone.”
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/07/20/pasolini-killer-pelosi-dies-4_8c49cdfc-b8ef-4086-8625-79f34f76fe7b.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 July 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
I resaw the Ferrara film tonight, and somehow never knew Ninetto Davoli became PPP's bf at age 15 til AF brought it up in the Q&A.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 May 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link
enjoyed Mamma Roma, I had never watched it before. It was dedicated to Rossellini and was made with Rome, Open City in mind, using the same actress, Anna Magnani, who is fantastic. It was interesting to read that Pasolini’s actors were mostly nonprofessionals who only starred in his films, and that he chose them because their acting did not seem “real” (eg, Ettore’s sleepwalking gait). I recognized quite a few of them in this from Accattone (the only other film of his I have seen so far)
― Dan S, Monday, 3 June 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
never watched a film with Ninetto Davoli in it before. He is really charming in The Hawks and the Sparrows, as is Totò. I like that Pasolini as an atheist was looking for beauty in representations of faith
― Dan S, Sunday, 9 June 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
Davoli is in the Ferrara film... and a young actor plays him in it
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
I will look for it
― Dan S, Monday, 10 June 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
wow Oedipus Rex is very satisfying. Franco Citti is such a hot-head!
― Dan S, Friday, 14 June 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
I liked the abrupt split in eras in which the story took place, and that the time rupture did not coincide with the film’s division into its first and second parts
― Dan S, Friday, 14 June 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
amateurist’s comment above that “it was a major inspiration for the taiwanese new wave directors” is interesting
― Dan S, Friday, 14 June 2019 02:29 (four years ago) link
also like that the thread starter has no user name
― Dan S, Friday, 14 June 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom is the first Pasolini film that has let me down
looking forward to seeing Theorem
haven't found a way yet to watch The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
― Dan S, Sunday, 7 July 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
*Teorema
― Dan S, Sunday, 7 July 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
Let's wait for Morbs to return from his Teorema screening earlier today.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 July 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
It has its moments, even a few after Stamp departs, and I like how he makes Milan look like shit.
It's not a very queer movie; falling in love with Stamp is just a metaphor for having your bourgeois self wrecked. Not one of his best.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 July 2019 05:20 (four years ago) link
Had to turn off the gospel of st matthew, couldn't get past the seemingly endless series of pronouncements in close up. decameron was ok but I don't think I get pasolini at all right now
― or something, Sunday, 7 July 2019 06:30 (four years ago) link
Rewatched Accatone, his first and among the best and most unsparing. Franco Citti had a very beautiful/ugly thing goin' on. (He's in many of the later films and shows up in Sicily in The Godfather.) The recurring scenes of the ne'er-do-wells' main hangout also anticipates the sidewalk social club/cafe in The Sopranos.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 July 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
Franco Citti's crooked teeth are distracting
― Josefa, Monday, 22 July 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lqsLTskEBA
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
liked Decameron for screwing nuns and N Davoli in barrel of shit
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 31 May 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
I saw from Letterboxd that you also saw The Canterbury Tales. Did you get to Arabian Nights? (I'm guessing you're watching them now for the same reason I did--they were leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of May.)
I think I like The Decameron and Arabian Nights about equally; they're both very warm, sexy, funny films. The Canterbury Tales is a bit more sour, a product, perhaps, of the source material (haven't read since undergrad), but at the very least, it leads to one of the most audacious and hilarious ending scenes in film history.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
I saw Arabian Nights first a few years back at MoMA, don't remember it well
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
on The Decameron
https://www.artforum.com/film/andreas-petrossiants-on-pasolini-s-the-decameron-83588
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
Good piece. Been a decade since I saw The Decameron but there is work to be done on the way Pasolini engages with text and also his own readings of the change in the Italian working class at the time.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 09:26 (three years ago) link
wrote an essay for @VersoBooks about pasolini's easter films (la ricotta, location hunting in palestine, il vangelo secondo matteo): his approach to landscape, technique of radical allegory, the influence of erich auerbach (thanks to @caitdoherty) https://t.co/lG9TU21XQm— roland barfs (@rolandbarfs) April 2, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 April 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
With a thread title like this, I had to think if he had any films I would "destroy". La Rabbia is pretty irrelevant in 2021, and I didn't really get the point of Hawks and Sparrows. Everything else is interesting to great.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 2 April 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
thread title otm
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 April 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
That's an interesting article by Andrew Key; I didn't realize Pasolini had written a screenplay about St. Paul. One of my favourite books about the work of a single director is A Certain Realism by Maurizio Viano, he manages to touch on all of Pasolini's works, exploring common themes without rehashing the same points over and over.Noodle Vague, are we really expected to love every film Pasolini made?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 2 April 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
Is there a good/legal way to watch The Gospel according to Saint Matthew?
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 2 April 2021 14:40 (three years ago) link
https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/the-gospel-according-to-matthew-il-vangelo-secondo-matteo/
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 2 April 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
However you see it, don't watch the colourized, cut and English-dubbed version from Legend Films!
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 2 April 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 2 April 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/the-gospel-according-to-matthew-il-vangelo-secondo-matteo🕸/
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 2 April 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
the colourized, cut and English-dubbed version from Legend Films!
why the fuck would anybody do this??
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
I think it's meant for American Christians who presumably don't want to watch a long black-and-white film in Italian, whoever the main character is.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 2 April 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
I rented a DVD of Gospel According to Matthew, was pretty old tho (Window-boxed)
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 April 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link
Presumably whoever scripted the English-language version downplayed the Communist angle for the US audience too.
― gordon whippoorwilltrap (Matt #2), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
Most of the major work on The Criterion Channel. Have never watched Accatone, doing so tonight.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link
"Make sure to bury me over there, in the sunlight".
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
Presumably in celebration of his centennial.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 23:20 (two years ago) link
For most of its running time Accattone plays like Rossellini or early Fellini: a seamier I Vitelloni. I don't know if the dream sequence quite works.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 March 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
Watched the restored Gospel According to Matthew on CC; looks great.
― Chris L, Friday, 11 March 2022 13:17 (two years ago) link
It's true that Accattone isn't a formal break from the style and stories of neo-realism; what I love about it is the novelistic pacing and this thick aura of fatalism that overhangs the character, but is subtle enough that you can't put your finger on how it's created. I thought I might have voted for this in the all-time film poll, but instead I chose Edipo Re.
I'm still waiting for Noodle Vague to answer my question from eleven months ago.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 11 March 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
Well that'll do ya
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
I've still only ever see the Trilogy of Life.
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Thursday, 9 March 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
just came here to post that. damn.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 16 March 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
Trilogy of Life.
i have that blu-ray set
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 17 March 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
saw The Gospel According to Matthew recently and it seems like his greatest film. Mamma Roma, Accattone, The Hawks and the Sparrows, and Teorema are also really good
I thought Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom was a tedious and lifeless film
haven't seem the Trilogy of Life, those films are generally not available to rent
― Dan S, Friday, 17 March 2023 00:54 (one year ago) link
The documentary about Italian sex life sucks, I must say. It's done after 10 minutes.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 March 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link