Word: pasolini
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Each fall the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center serves as a 2½-week primer on the state of world cinema. This year, as usual, there is a heavy emphasis on big-name European directors (Bertolucci, Buʼnuel, Pasolini, Bresson), a shortage of American movies, and a sprinkling of exotic entries from underdeveloped nations. Only a few of the festival films are immediately released elsewhere. Among them...
Hitchcock's Lifeboat today at 7:30; Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Sunday...
...never gave up his aristocratic attitudes. His books and films show the proletariat as merely a class to be manipulated. As a film-maker, and even more as a homosexual who could buy any boy he chose (and did so) Pasolini exploited the working classes. The night of his death, he picked up a boy to satisfy his sexual needs, took the kid out for dinner (Pasolini didn't eat) and then drove off with him in his Alfa 2000 to a private place. Ironically, Pasolini himself helped to perpetrate the prostitution he deplored...
...Pasolini acutely analyzed the psychic conflicts of the intellectual Italian even as he lived them. Magnified by his artistic sensibility, these problems become universal Pasolini's neuroses were Italian versions of man's traumas. The alienation of birth, the love-hate dialectic of sex, the conflict of principles and suppressed desires; these are all part of the angst of human existence. Oriana Fallaci, and other friends of Pasolini, have said he wanted to die, and to die the kind of violent death he did. Certainly the abyss fascinated him. He sought the dangerous, the sordid, with passion. He loved...
...Pasolini would have found a paradoxical meaning in his own senseless death...