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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.
Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954.
Sep 19, 2023 · From Arabian Nights to The Gospel According to St. Matthew, these 10 movies by Pier Paolo Pasolini are his best.
Jul 5, 2024 · Pier Paolo Pasolini (born March 5, 1922, Bologna, Italy—died Nov. 2, 1975, Ostia, near Rome) was an Italian motion-picture director, poet, and novelist, noted for his socially critical, stylistically unorthodox films.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work survives as the bittersweet fruit of a hard-won and fiercely defended freedom. The film retrospective “Pier Paolo Pasolini,” organized by Jytte Jensen, remains on view through January 5 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Celebrated the world over as one of the central figures of the postwar Italian cinema, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is recognized in his native land as arguably the most important Italian artist and intellectual of the twentieth century.
Jun 27, 2023 · “I love life so fiercely, so desperately, that nothing good can come of it,” Pier Paolo Pasolini declared in 1960, just before he embarked on a career as a film director. In that characteristic union of euphoria and fatalism, one hears the contrarian voice of the most courageous and dangerous Italian artist of his generation.