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...year film-making career, Pasolini created 22 major films and wrote numerous screenplays for other directors. His films range in style from the gritty, black-and-white, neo-realist-influenced "Accatone" (1961), to the mystical, comical "Hawks and Sparrows" (1966), to his mythical, often erotic version of "The Decameron" (1971), right up to the brutal, disturbing "Salo...
...easy to call Generation X a modern Decameron--an exchange of tales to pass the time, while avoiding the decay of the world outside. But Generation X could also be a Canterbury Tales for the 90's--pilgrims trading stories while en route to something better...
...message is affectionate, and his four- footed characters are irresistible. Here he has gathered 50 recollections of canines, some of them sentimental, a few tragic and at least one--the story of a terrier male who abruptly becomes attractive to other males--as odd as anything in the Decameron. Herriot recalls that in his student days domestic animals were customarily listed in descending order of importance: horse, ox, sheep, pig, dog. In the latest work, he has brought his favorites to the front and given them a new leash on life...
...didn't see anything any more and started hitting him and hitting him as hard as I could." Whether or not the story is this simplistic, the assassination was as disgusting, as degrading, as gross and pornographic as the worst scene in one of Pasolini's recent movies. (Decameron, Canterbury Tales, Salo: or The Last Days of Sodom). This massacre had no cause, served no purpose...
THERE'S AN OLD TRICK in English literature; I don't know if it has a name, but generally it's an overused gimmick that's been done well a couple of times. Boccacio first used this trick in the Decameron, upon which Chaucer modeled Canterbury Tales. The idea is to get some people together in a place where they will reveal themselves through some telling story or action. Usually a new perspective breathes life into this old hack's trick. But in Philadelphia, Anyone? the perspective seems almost as old as its technique...