Pier Paolo Pasolini
1) The anger
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
La rabbia attempts to show how the right wing and the left wing viewed the societal changes in the 1950s and 60s. Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi explore topics such as racism, the Middle East, Cuba, Stalinism, the Atomic bomb, and the death of Marilyn Monroe from diametrically opposite sides of the political spectrum, so it is no wonder why the U.S. government was afraid of this film. Pasolini and Guareschi, two of the most important...
Publisher
RaroVideo
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
"La Rabbia" employs documentary footage (from the 1950's) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini,...
5) Medea
Publisher
Video Arts
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the tragedy by Euripides.
6) Mamma Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 236
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
A former prostitute tries to leave the life and build a better one for her son.
Series
Criterion collection volume 272
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
The brutalized corpse of a prostitute is found in a Roman park, along the banks of the Tiber River. The police round up and interrogate a handful of possible suspects. Each has to explain why he is there. One of them is the killer.
8) Teorema
Series
Criterion collection volume 1013
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger, perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil, who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family, precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle, blocked from an exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy, is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and...
9) Teorema
Series
Criterion collection volume 1013
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Description
Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger, perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil, who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family, precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle, blocked from an exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy, is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and...
10) Teorema
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A handsome stranger enters the lives of a bourgeois Italian family and proceeds to seduce each member, including the maid.
11) Edipo Re
Publisher
Water Bearer Films
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in Morocco in the 1960's, tells the story of Oedipus' downfall after the prophesy that he will murder his father and marry his mother comes true.
Publisher
Water Bearer Films
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Italiano
Description
Paolini uses a comic crow, which philosophizes amusingly and pointedly about the passing scene as a counter point to the performers, representing humanity, as they progress down the road of life, caught between the Church and Marxism.