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Pasolini is a 2014 English-language internationally co-produced drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and written by Maurizio Braucci about the final days of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (played by Willem Dafoe). It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.
Accattone ([akkatˈto:ne], lit. "vagabond", "scrounger" [1] [2]) is a 1961 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.It was Pasolini's first film as a director and premiered at the Venice Film Festival. [3]
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian: [ˈpjɛr ˈpaːolo pazoˈliːni]; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright.He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist and a political figure.
The film came after a string of movies of the late 1960s in which Pasolini had a major ideological bent. Though this film is much more light-hearted in nature Pasolini nonetheless considered it among his most "ideological". [2] The film can be seen as an attack on the stiff sexual mores of both Chaucer and Pasolini's times. [citation needed]
Film producer Gastone Ferranti wanted to make a movie with two of the most important Italian intellectuals of the 1960s: Giovannino Guareschi and Pier Paolo Pasolini, despite them being diametrically opposite – one a right-wing monarchist, and the other a Communist militant, and yet branded as "heretics" by their own side.
The Decameron (Italian: Il Decameron) is a 1971 anthology film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the 14th-century allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first film of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights. Each film was an adaptation of a different piece of classical ...
Pasolini cast him in six of his subsequent films, making him one of the filmmaker's close creative collaborators. He played Carmine, opposite Anna Magnani , in Mamma Roma (1962), the title character in Oedipus Rex (1967), a cannibal in Pigsty (1969), Ser Ciappelletto in The Decameron (1971), Satan in The Canterbury Tales (1972), and the Demon ...
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) was an Italian writer and film director. Pages in category "Films directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.