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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual (1922-1975)
March 5, 1922 (November 2, 1975)
It. 2008. Documentary by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci. Attempt to reconstruct the complete version of the first part of the film "La Rabbia", directed in 1963 by the late Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Runtime: 83 min.

Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom

V.O.: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
It. 1975. Drama by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto P. Quintavalle. At the end of the Second World War, four leading fascists indulge their particular pleasures by subjecting young people to perverse games.
Runtime: 117 min.

Arabian Nights

V.O.: Il Fiore delle mille e una notte
It. 1974. Tale by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Ines Pellegrini, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti. Kidnapped from her master, a beautiful slave goes on amazing adventures.
Runtime: 131 min.

Bawdy Tales

V.O.: Storie Scellerate
It. 1973. Sketches by Sergio Citti with Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Nicoletta Machiavelli. Two brigands convicted of murder tell each other stories of adultery while awaiting execution.
Runtime: 93 min.

The Canterbury Tales

V.O.: I racconti di Canterbury
It. 1972. Sketches by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Laura Betti, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti. Pilgrims on their way to the Canterbury Cathedral tell each other bawdy tales to pass the time.
Runtime: 109 min.

The Decameron

V.O.: Il Decameron
It. 1971. Sketches by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli. Adaptation of eight tales from the work of Boccaccio.
Runtime: 110 min.

Carnet de notes pour une Orestie africaine

V.O.: Appunti per una Orestiade africana
It. 1969. Essay film by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini travels to Africa to prepare the shooting of a modern adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia.

Pigsty

V.O.: Porcile
It. 1969. Poetic drama by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky. The strange story of a young man attracted to pigs intertwines with that of a vagrant who is guilty of cannibalism.
Runtime: 95 min.

Médée

V.O.: Medea
It. 1969. Poetic drama by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Maria Callas, Giuseppe Gentile, Laurent Terzieff. Setting out to find the Golden Fleece, Jason returns to his country with Medea, with whom he will have two children and then abandon ten years later.
Runtime: 110 min.

Caprice à l'italienne

V.O.: Capriccio all'italiana
It. 1968. Sketches by Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Steno, Pino Zac, Franco Rossi. Six humorous stories on the themes of misunderstanding and breaking the rules.
Runtime: 79 min.

Theorem

V.O.: Teorema
It. 1968. Poetic drama by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti. A young stranger crosses paths with a bourgeois family in Milan and seduces each member.
Runtime: 98 min.

Love and Anger

V.O.: Amore e rabbia
It. 1968. Sketches by Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlo Lizzani, Pier Paolo Pasolini with Julian Beck, Tom Baker, Nino Castelnuovo. Various reflections on the theme of protest.
Runtime: 102 min.

Oedipus Rex

V.O.: Edipo re
It. 1967. Drama by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Ninetto Davoli. A prince of Thebes is condemned by fate to kill his father and marry his mother.
Runtime: 104 min.

The Witches

V.O.: Le Streghe
It. 1966. Comedy by Luchino Visconti, Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Vittorio De Sica with Silvana Mangano, Toto, Alberto Sordi. The misadventures of five Italian women from different conditions.
Runtime: 121 min.

The Hawks and the Sparrows

V.O.: Uccellacci e uccellini
It. 1966. Satire by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Toto, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi. A raven joins a man and his son to tell them the story of a disciple of St. Francis of Assisi who wanted to evangelize the birds.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

V.O.: Il Vangelo secondo Matteo
It. 1964. Biblical drama by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Suzanna Pasolini. The main events in the life of Christ.
Runtime: 137 min.
It. 1964. Documentary by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Grim Reaper

V.O.: La Commare Secca
It. 1962. Crime drama by Bernardo Bertolucci with Francesco Ruiu, Giancarlo de Rosa, Vincenzo Ciecora. The murder of a prostitute leads to an investigation in various districts of Rome.
Runtime: 92 min.
It. 1962. Social drama by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini. The miserable life of a pimp in a Roman suburb.
Runtime: 116 min.
It. 1962. Psychological drama by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Anna Magnani, Franco Citti, Ettore Garofolo. A former prostitute struggles to secure her son's future.
Runtime: 106 min.

Woman in the Window

V.O.: La Ragazza in Vetrina
It. 1960. Psychological drama by Luciano Emmer with Bernard Fresson, Marina Vlady, Lino Ventura. An Italian miner falls in love with a prostitute in Holland.
Runtime: 95 min.

Nights of Cabiria

V.O.: Le Notte di Cabiria
It. 1957. Psychological drama by Federico Fellini with Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Amedeo Nazzari. A prostitute experiences a bitter disappointment in love.
Runtime: 108 min.

Woman of the River

V.O.: La Donna del fiume
It. 1954. Melodrama by Mario Soldati with Sophia Loren, Gérard Oury, Lise Bourdin. A young girl takes revenge on the man who seduced her by denouncing him as a smuggler.
Runtime: 90 min.

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