today is a scared day @ antebellum. we honor our patriot fetish icon~ director/writer/poet/anarchist/homo~
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
please join us for TEA WITH PASOLINI~ today 5pm~
$5 cover or bring something savory to eat.
screening of pasolini's masterpiece~ TEOREMA @ 7pmish
(terance stamp in teorema)
It was the first time Pasolini worked primarily with professional actors. In this film, an upper-class Milanese family is introduced to, and then abandoned by, a divine force.
Two prevalent motifs are the desert and the timelessness of divinity.
A young and unbelieveblw gorgeous~ Terence Stamp plays a mysterious figure who appears in the lives of a typical bourgeois Italian family. He engages in sexual affairs with all members of the household: the devoutly religious maid, the sensitive son, the sexually repressed mother, the timid daughter and, finally, the tormented father. The stranger gives unstintingly of himself, asking nothing in return. Then one day he leaves, as suddenly and mysteriously as he came. The subsequent void created forces each family member to confront what was previously concealed by the trappings of bourgeois life. The mother seeks sexual encounters with young men, the son leaves the family home to become an artist, the daughter sinks into a catatonic state and the father strips himself of all material effects, handing his factory over to its workers, removing his clothes at a railway station and wandering naked into the wilderness. The maid returns to the rural village where she was born and is seen to perform miracles.
this levetation scene is encrypted in my mind as one of the most cinematic scenes in a film~ever!
(last scene of teorema~ 1968)
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".
