ANTEBELLUM BLOG: 30.10.11

11/2/11

PASOLINI HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 36 YEARS

TODAY~ NOVEMBER 2ND~ IS THE DEATH DAY OF THE LATE, GREAT~FETISH ICON~
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet,journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, becoming a highly controversial figure in the process.

Pasolini created numerous cinematic masterpieces including TEOREMA, MEDEA and THE DECAMERON.
Pasolini, along with Fellini, Antonioni and Visconte put Italian cinema on the map.

SALO or THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM, (1975), exceeded what most viewers could then stomach in its explicit scenes of intensely sadistic violence.
Based on the novel 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade, it is considered one of the most controversial films of all times.

RICK CASTRO says- "salo is the best film ever made. it separates the men from the boys."

Pasolini was murdered by being run over several times with his own car,
dying on 2 November 1975, (just days before the release of salo) on the beach at Ostia, near Rome.

Giuseppe Pelosi, a seventeen-year-old hustler, was arrested and confessed to murdering Pasolini.

Thirty years later, on 7 May 2005, he retracted his confession, which he said was made under the threat of violence to his family.
He claimed that three people "with a southern accent" had committed the murder, insulting Pasolini as a "dirty communist".

IN TRIBUTE TO THE PASSING OF THE LATE/GREAT FETISH ICON~
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

ANTEBELLUM PRESENTS~

TEA WITH PASOLINI
the 36 year anniversary of the death of pasolini

5PM TIL 7PM

TEA & SWEETIES WILL BE SERVED

DONATIONS APPRECIATED

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