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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian poet, writer, film director, 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. He is known for directing The Gospel According to St. Matthew, the films from Trilogy of Life and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
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culture · Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975) · film director · translator · actor · poet · screenwriter · journalist · novelist · playwright · film actor · film critic · also Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pasolini
Born 5 March 1922 · Died 2 November 1975 · Q25120
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 5,908 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 1,520, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘You have to be ready to see it’: Abel Ferrara and Catherine Breillat on why Pasolini’s Salò is a gift that keeps giving
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MutualArt.com: Pier Paolo Pasolini
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2023· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Marxist Criticism of Painting
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Moviefone: Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life - Where to Watch
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2022· 4 entries
Mid Day: Filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's retrospective from Nov 2-9 at IHC
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San Francisco Examiner: Pier Paolo Pasolini, truth teller of postwar Italian cinema, turns 100 at the Castro
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The Guardian: Carlo Ancelotti: the secret ringer who patched up Pasolini and Bertolucci
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Wall Street Journal: The Still Divisive Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini
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2015· 4 entries
The Guardian: Pasolini review – a handsome, oblique tribute to the great director
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The Guardian: The Guardian film show: Legend, Irrational Man and Pasolini – video reviews
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The Guardian: Pasolini review – monument to a murdered film-maker
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Wu Ming argued that Pasolini's statements need to be understood in the context of Pasolini's self-confessed hatred of the bourgeoisie which had persecuted him for so long, as "Il PCI ai giovani" states that "We (i
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2013· 1 entry
SFGate: Looking back at filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini
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2005· 2 entries
Was dedicated to Pasolini
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Suggested that Pasolini had been murdered by an extortionist
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1986· 1 entry
The avant-garde band Coil released their album Horse Rotorvator, which includes the track "Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)" in tribute to the late filmmaker
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1977· 1 entry
As Le belle bandiere (The Beautiful Flags)
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1976· 1 entry
Initially with "unknown others", but that phrase was later removed from the verdict
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1975· 4 entries
Died 1975-11-02.
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“La verità non sta in un solo sogno ma in molti sogni.”
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“If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.”
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“rebuild an anti-fascist virginity ... but, at the same time, maintaining the impunity of the fascist gangs that they, if they wanted, would liquidate in a day”
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1972· 3 entries
Won Golden Bear for The Canterbury Tales (1972).
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Pasolini started to collaborate with the far-left organization Lotta Continua, producing a documentary, 12 dicembre, concerning the Piazza Fontana bombing
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She hoped to 'convert' him to heterosexuality and to marriage." Pasolini was also sensible to the problematics related to the "new" role ascribed to women through the Italian media, stating in a 1972 interview that "women are not slot machines".
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1971· 2 entries
Earned Silver Bear (1971).
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Where he denounced censorship, was not actually aired until the day following his murder in November 1975
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1970· 2 entries
Pasolini bought an old castle near Viterbo, several miles north of Rome, where he began to write his last novel, Il Petrolio, in which he denounced obscure dealing in the highest levels of government and the corporate wo
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Travelled again to Africa to shoot another documentary, Appunti per un'Orestiade africana
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Jussi Awards for The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1968).
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1967· 2 entries
“that our life, to that point ambiguous, undecipherable, suspended – acquires a meaning.”
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In Venice, he met and interviewed American poet Ezra Pound
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1966· 1 entry
Pasolini wrote a screenplay for a never-produced film about the apostle Saint Paul, which he subsequently revised
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival (1964).
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1963· 2 entries
The episode "La ricotta", included in the anthology film Ro
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At the age of 41, Pasolini met "the great love of his life", 15-year-old Ninetto Davoli, whom he later cast in his 1966 film Uccellacci e uccellini (literally "Bad Birds and Little Birds" but translated in English as The
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1961· 2 entries
With Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia to India (where he went again seven years later); in 1962, to Sudan and Kenya; in 1963, to Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Jordan and Israel (where he shot the documentary Sopralluoghi in Pa
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Again set among Rome's marginal communities, a story of pimps, prostitutes, and thieves that contrasted with Italy's postwar economic recovery
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Crotone Prize for A Violent Life (1959).
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded Best Screenplay Award for Young Husbands (1958).
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Called on the PCI to become "'the party of the poor people': the party, we may say, of the lumpenproletarians"
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Viareggio Prize (1957).
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Together with Sergio Citti, Pasolini collaborated on Federico Fellini's film Nights of Cabiria, writing dialogue for the Roman dialect sections
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1955· 1 entry
Together with Francesco Leonetti, Roberto Roversi and others, Pasolini edited and published a poetry magazine called Officina
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1954· 1 entry
Pasolini, who now worked for the literary section of Cinecittà, left his teaching job and moved to the Monteverde quarter
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1951· 1 entry
With the help of the Abruzzese-language poet Vittorio Clemente, he found a job as a secondary school teacher in Ciampino, just outside the capital
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1947· 1 entry
“In our opinion, we think that currently only Communism is able to provide a new culture.”
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1946· 1 entry
Pasolini published a small poetry collection, I Diarii ('The Diaries'), with the Academiuta
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1943· 1 entry
Would found the Academiuta della lenga furlana (Academy of the Friulan Language) with fellow students
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1942· 1 entry
Pasolini published at his own expense a collection of poems in Friulan, Poesie a Casarsa, which he had written at the age of eighteen
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1939· 1 entry
Pasolini graduated and entered the Literature College of the University of Bologna, discovering new themes such as philology and aesthetics of figurative arts
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1933· 1 entry
Moved again to Cremona in Lombardy, and later to Scandiano and Reggio Emilia
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1926· 1 entry
Pasolini's father was arrested for gambling debts
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1923· 1 entry
Then to Belluno in 1925, where their second son, Guidalberto, was born
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-03-05.
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