Pier Paolo Pasolini - The Filmmaker - Documentary (1/3)

[tedwilli9]

Pasolini's poetry is pretty solid. I haven't seen much of his films. Any good?

[clubpogo2]

I think Pasolini was a very useful criminal, a type of Jesus Christ, crucified for bizarre work. Pasolini helped honest Canadians do important work by explaining immoral acts for scientific study. Pasolini was "larger than life".

[DendrilopisXaggro]

filthy pedophile

[mackafella]

this is a great documentary. I just saw it yesterday on the DVD to the gospel according to saint matthew. If Pasolini were alive today I'd take a bullet for him, that's how strongly I connect to him. I don't think there is any artist or filmmaker out there today who's as good

[qwertyzupoi]

sry, but you need to be italian to undestand Pasolini :P

[coimbra4ever]

@joeinparis

maybe you should read a little more, and learn things right before saying blasphemy. Its the ignorance that runs through people like you, that is destroying our world. Probably Pasolini was killed by the CIA, because he was inconvenient with the information he knew about Mattei and the Seven Sisters. So you see, the USA is more involved than they like people to think. Hence the anti-american comments. If people like you keep on following the herd,at least stay put with the comments!

[italiana40]

AND HOMO = FROCIO

[italiana40]

AND  HOMO

[WWWNRG]

the best

[StonedSwede]

Pasolini is, to me, as big and influential as Bergman and Tarkovsky. He was a REAL artist.

[polityes]

ITALIAN!!!!!

[monkiball]

Pasolini was a great man. Sadly, he made the right films for the wrong audience. Most people were to superficial or stupid to understand his messages. His movies are masterpieces. I hope his name lives on for a long while.

[dfkdjfksjfkds]

@monkiball I need to see his films!

[uiopytrre]

Salo or 120 days of sodom was really disturbing for me

[josh66694]

i think that was the point of the movie because it disturbed the balls of of me!

[uiopytrre]

i know

[buildgod93]

@uiopytrre Good, it was suppose to.

[kowazel]

I wish this documentary was in italian with subtitles, i find it hard to listen to that american guy doing the dubbing, his voice makes me not pay attention. Weird!

[littleflags]

I just watched the trailer for Saló on Criterion's website and was having the same problem.

[BonerJam53]

when is part two coming?

[pseudonym1964]

AhAhAhAh! The illiterate gringo hasn't got a clue!

Pasolini, a great intellectual, film maker, writer....

[Xipolatico]

"for me Pasolini is like a brother"... okay, let's pretend we all believe...

[ianredford2001]

Pasolini was a great intellectual, but he was more than this, he was one man with principles and ethics...

and if you have some troubles with the fact that he was gay, sorry but you really missed the point...

[signupstgo]

Undoubtedly, the Italian cinema gives to study enough time, in view of his depth and mastery, so much in the visual as narrative language

[dauno73]

Thanks for posting it!

Dear PierPaolo,

I have red your books, I have watched your movies.

Italy does miss you, mate.

poor people will never forget you

Ciao

[lechuli]

SON TODOS PUTOS

[Scinauticando]

We miss you PierPaolo

[xContaminatedx]

Which Pasolini film should I watch first?

[marcobagut]

Accattone

[rockinmars]

I have the same question!!

[jcinla76]

I love Theorema and The Gospel According to St Matthew.

I would keep Salo for the end.

[StoryeTime]

@jcinla76

I agree, I would suggest the gospel according to St Matthew

[kafkakinder]

Saló.

[T4nz4ni4232]

salo

[gauchatche]

Antonioni has a very different style of film of Pasolini. Antonioni works more with the expression of character, are movies with little dialogue.

In the Italian cinema, and all I prefer the cinema of Luchino Visconti because it has more consistency.

[jpsartreny]

Antonioni was streets ahead of pasolini

[Nicatroubadour]

who is that? what style of film, how is he different from pasolini?

[CRCRCOAL]

Caro, dolce, buon fratello Pasolini, ci manchi molto.

[pietrogutta]

the american's sarcastic and belittling comments on pasolini demonstrate a that sadly the anglo-saxon public wasn't able to understand the genius of pasolini,who, in my opinion, is the most mediterranian director of all times. consequently they fail to understand the cultural implications of the region and Italy (center and south, excluding Lombardy).while Antonioni embodies a western and northern viewpoint, more modern and less bound to a tradition.

[europecinema]

Thank you for your incisive remark... Your comment is much appreciated!

[chris101971]

Yours is a very clear point on the distinction of the two directors. Pasolini was a visionary and vision maker. He touched the conscious and unconscious. For me he is part of the world of artists like Cy Twombly or Richard Serra, artists with an understanding and quest to convey where we, as humans, are at this time. It is not just image making, but language, history, life primative and modern. Pasolini's was a talent unknown before and unseen since.

[jackspicerisland]

It might just be that the American is in on the joke, right? It would seem an extraordinary bit of luck for a documentary crew making a film about Pasolini to have happened upon this bit of cinephilic indignation. His reaction at 00:42 suggests a staged moment.

[JeanCocteau777]

@pietrogutta

Here is one American who loves Pasolini.

[TheHollyweirdFiles]

@pietrogutta assuming all the americans are anglo-saxon???

[BrickLaneBetty]

@pietrogutta  Beautiful!!

[nowherenowhere]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[eenblanke]

"intellectual"...lol

[GordonMorrice]

"Gospel according to Saint Marx"

LOL!

[asdkjahsdkjhasdkjh]

mystic marxist catholic atheist?

[si65classics]

Death does not determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; it's sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. Pasolini

[KafkaCrow]

<3 Comrade Pasolini.

[SisterNora]

thank you for this.

[rytut]

mystic marxist catholic athiest?

[sacrificaltotem]

no no put a ! not a ? after that statement

[ndinosan]

Pasolini wasn't Catholic!! Dune!

[marcobagut]

exactly, Pasolini wass a true christian and a true comunist...unlike all the ones who claimed to be so!