The life of Jesus in the cinema would have generated only a series of crusts, on the Hollywood kitsch side or on the illustrated catechism side, if Pier Paolo Pasolini had not signed in 1964 a masterpiece, embodied and poetic, political without being sacrilegious , who had the audacity to please – almost – everyone: … Read more
What do the anticlerical screenwriter Pasolini and Pope Paul VI have in common? The same passion for Christ and the same revolt against the bourgeois mores of materialistic society. The publisher Michel Cool sees in them a common spiritual resistance to the chaos of the world. This year marks the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini … Read more
We receive from Mario Campanella and gladly publish One hundred years ago Pier Paolo Pasolini was born, a brilliant young Friulian with a vocation for writing and poetry. He was a communist but Tito’s communists killed his brother because he was Italian. His party, the PCI, expelled him for being homosexual. That young man … Read more
Pier Paolo Pasolini Memory(s) and resonances March 21-22 –University of Strasbourg On March 5, 2022, Pasolini would have been one hundred years old. In the Peninsula as in France, tributes, theatrical releases of restored films or other works honor the one that Italian society nevertheless tried to put on the index, like the censorship to … Read more
Quarantasette anni fa, nella notte fra il 1° e il 2 novembre 1975, veniva barbaramente assassinato all’Idroscalo di Ostia il grande scrittore, saggista, giornalista, regista, sceneggiatore e intellettuale friulano. Nato a Bologna nel marzo 1922 da madre friulana – Susanna Colussi (1891-1981), insegnante – originaria di Casarsa della Delizia (PN) e padre bolognese – Carlo … Read more
In the monumental complex of the former Bourbon Prison, in Avellino, under the patronage of the Municipality, an exhibition of contemporary art is presented, dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini, on the centenary of his birth (1922). As many as 27 sponsors underline the importance of the event, including “SpazioArte”, the Circolo Culturale Polivalente dell’Aquila.Conceived by … Read more
ROME – Poet, screenwriter, actor, director, writer, painter, novelist and playwright: Pier Paolo Pasolini he left an important legacy to artists and intellectuals who celebrated, studied and remembered him. Among these are also the pencils of Davide Toffolo, Giuseppe Palumbo, Gianluca Maconi and Elettra Stamboulis and Gianluca Costantini, authors of Pasolini, Pasolini 1964, The Pasolini … Read more
More from you – PasolinAssisi is the title of the 80th Course of Christian Studies completely dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Assisi adventure scheduled in the “Christian Citadel” of Assisi, from 22 to 27 August 2022. One hundred years after the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini and sixty years after his meeting with the Citadel … Read more
ROME – After the success in 2021 of the Women In Comics exhibition, from 26 August to 2 October 2022 Palazzo Merulana returns to pay homage to the Ninth Art, its strength and incisiveness, with Conscious heart – Pier Paolo Pasolini told in the Comics, an extraordinary anthology that, through the language of comics, traces … Read more
In three decades, Ravenna has become the Italian Salzburg: two festivals (one in summer – this year started on June 1st and extends until July 21st) and one in autumn (October 31st – November 4th), great performers from all over the world , interdisciplinary (the autumn festival is dedicated to opera). FEDEZ AND THE FEAR … Read more