Pier Paolo Pasolini: the poet of contamination

Document author(s):

James Quandt

Document source:

Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group

Publication date:

2010 Sum

Document language:

English

Document type:

program note

Number of pages:

8

Source pagination:

34-41

Document name subject:

Orson Welles, Jean Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Terence Stamp, Laura Betti, Totò, Maria Callas, Alida Valli, Ninetto Davoli, and Silvana Mangano

Document contains:

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Related films:

• Accattone — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy — 1961
• Mamma Roma — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy — 1962
• La rabbia (Anger) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Guareschi, Giovanni — Italy — 1963
• RoGoPaG — Rossellini, Roberto; Godard, Jean Luc; Gregoretti, Ugo; Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy; France — 1963
• Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The gospel according to St. Matthew) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy; France — 1964
• Sopralluoghi in Palestina per Il vangelo secondo Matteo (Seeking locations in Palestine for the film 'The gospel according to St. Matthew') — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy — 1964
• Uccellacci e uccellini (Hawks and sparrows) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy — 1966
• Edipo Re (Oedipus Rex) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy — 1967
• Teorema (Theorem) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy — 1968
• Porcile (Pigpen) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy; France — 1969
• Medea — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy; France; Germany — 1970
• Il Decameron (The Decameron) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy; France; Germany — 1970
• racconti di Canterbury (The Canterbury tales) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Dandolo, Lucio — Italy; France — 1971
• Il fiore delle mille e una notte (Arabian nights) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy; France — 1974
• Le mura di Sana (The walls of Sana'a) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy — 1974
• Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy; France — 1975
• Appunti per un Orestiade Africana (Notes for an African Oresteia) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy — 1976
• Comizi d'amore (Assembly of love) — Pasolini, Pier Paolo — Italy — 1994

Film country(ies):

France, Germany, and Italy

Film language(s):

English, French, and Italian

Film production company:

Aetos Film, Arco Films S.r.L., Artemis Film, C.A.P.A.C., Cineriz, Cino del Duca, Euro International Films, Film dell'Orso, Films Number One, IDI Cinematografica, INDIEF S.p.A., Janus Film und Fernsehen, Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France, Opus Films, Productions Artistes Associés, Les, Produzioni Europee Associati, Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rizzoli Film Sp.A., San Marco Films, Somafis, United Artists Corporation, and Zebra Film Productions

Film genre(s):

Adaptation, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Erotic, Fantasy, Feature, Horror, Newsreel, Religious, Short, and Social problem

Film subject(s):

• Actors -- Drama
• Aeschylus. The Oresteia -- Film and video adaptations
• Africa -- Politics and government
• Arabian nights -- Film and video adaptations
• Atomic bomb -- Drama
• Bible. N.T. Matthew -- Film and video adaptations
• Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone -- Film and video adaptations
• Cannibalism -- Drama
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, d.1400. Canterbury tales -- Film and video adaptations
• Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Drama
• Christianity -- Drama
• City and town life -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama
• Communism -- Italy -- Drama
• Current events -- 1950-1960
• Euripides. Medea -- Film and video adaptations
• Family life -- Drama
• Fascism -- Italy -- 1944-1945 -- Drama
• Fathers and sons -- Drama
• Fathers and sons -- Italy -- Drama
• Francis of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226 -- Film and video adaptations
• Homosexuality -- Drama
• Incest -- Drama
• Interviews -- Italy
• Italy -- History -- 1944-1945 -- Drama
• Italy -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Drama
• Italy -- Social life and customs
• Jason (Greek mythology) -- Drama
• Jesus Christ -- Drama
• Love -- Italy
• Lust -- Drama
• Medea (Greek mythology) -- Drama
• Mothers and sons -- Drama
• Mothers and sons -- Italy -- Drama
• Motion picture locations -- Africa
• Motion picture locations -- Palestine
• Motion picture producers and directors
• Motion pictures -- Casting
• Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Africa
• Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Palestine
• Neo-Nazis -- Germany -- Drama
• Orte (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
• Outcasts -- Drama
• Parricide -- Drama
• Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975
• Pimps -- Italy -- Drama
• Promiscuity -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- Italy -- Drama
• Real estate development -- Italy
• Religious films -- Drama
• Rome -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814 -- Film and video adaptations
• Sadism -- Drama
• Sana (Yemen) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
• Sana (Yemen) -- Description and travel
• Sensuality -- Drama
• Sex -- Drama
• Socialism
• Sophocles. Oedipus Rex -- Film and video adaptations
• Sophocles. Oedipus at Colonus -- Film and video adaptations
• Swine -- Drama
• Tales, Medieval -- Drama
• Torture -- Drama
• Urban poor -- Italy -- Drama
• World history -- 1950-1960
• Young men -- Drama

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