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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 15:44:50 GMT
I like him a lot, based on the 6 movies I've seen from him. He's not quite as fun to watch as say, Fellini, but his movies are undeniably thought provoking.
Here's how I rank what I've seen:
1. Salò
2. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
3. Teorema
4. Oedipus Rex
5. Mamma Roma
6. Accattone
Salò is easily my favorite... I havent stopped thinking about it since I watched it. Definetly not an easy film to watch, but for me it was very rewarding. The Gospel According to St. Matthew is similar. I think I enjoyed thinking about it more than actually watching it. The perspective Pasolini brings to the story of Jesus is so intriguing. I'd describe Teorema and Oedipus Rex as dream-like movies. They certainly run on emotion and thematic purpose rather than logic or story. Both Mamma Roma and Accattone are very solid neorealist films, but they don't have the same surreal Pasolini footprint.
Your thoughts?
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Post by themoviesinner on Oct 10, 2017 16:32:11 GMT
Among my favorite directors. Salo is my favorite film of all time.
1. Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom - 10/10
2. Teorema - 9/10
3. The Gospel According To St. Matthew - 8/10
4. The Decameron - 8/10
5. Mamma Roma - 8/10
6. Accattone - 8/10
7. Arabian Nights - 7/10
8. The Canterbury Tales - 6/10
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Post by tobias on Oct 10, 2017 16:55:34 GMT
The best Italy has to offer. Love his poetic style, each film (or rather each pair of films) has their own distinct idenity and operates with an outlook on the world of its own. The artistic force is exceptionally striking in a director, it's a great shame he died so early. Seen his entire feature filmography, would rank them as follows:
1. Teorema
2. Oedipus Rex
3. The Decameron
4. The Canterbury Tales
5. Hawks and Sparrows
6. Arabian Nights
7. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
8. Accattone
9. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
10. Medea
11. Pigsty
12. Mamma Roma
But really, all of them are really good.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 10, 2017 17:11:13 GMT
He was a very gifted filmmaker who only sometimes gravitated to material that he could fully express - he had a keen double artistic impulse. I tend to like him earlier - Mamma Roma and Teorema are probably my favorites - but they show the sides of his talent, he understands Mamma Roma with great sensitivity, but he also understands the Italian family and their wealth and privilege with great intellect.
Those two things - great feeling and a penetrating mind make him a kind of singular filmmaker - the closest precursor imo to Fassbinder.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 10, 2017 17:50:02 GMT
Haven't seen it, but I would think he'd be very hard to make a movie about in a 2 hour typical form - his life was built on contradictions both personal and professional. If you read about his life you can get a headache understanding the way he saw things - but if you break his feelings down to one issue at a time it makes perfectly reasonable, complex intellectual sense too.
I can't even imagine what the film would be like.......but I can't imagine it would capture him very well.
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Post by cherry68 on Oct 10, 2017 18:30:46 GMT
it's a great shame he died so early. Well, you run some risks when you are a pedo hitting on the wrong boy. |
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Post by no on Oct 11, 2017 21:26:35 GMT
Salò is a good contender for the greatest film ever made in my opinion, I generally consider it my second favorite, with Stalker by Tarkovsky as my first. I have a lot of Pasolini films left to see and am more than willing to binge them at some point. I definitely prefer him over Fellini based on what I've seen.
► Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) 10
► Mamma Roma (1962) 9
► The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) 9
► Theorem (1986) 9
► Oedipus Rex (1967) 9
► Accattone (1961) 8
► Medea (1969) 7
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Post by MsMovieStar on Oct 12, 2017 19:23:08 GMT
Teorema!  |
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Oct 13, 2017 22:44:48 GMT
I've seen The Gospel of St. Matthew, Salo, The Canterbury Tales, and Oedipus Complex. Based upon those four films, I would really like to explore Pasolini's filmography even more. He's a really interesting and good filmmaker.
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Post by clunkybob2 on Oct 28, 2017 17:59:28 GMT
I think he good
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