My cinema
By: Pier Paolo Pasolini ; [edited by Graziella Chiarcossi and Roberto Chiesi, in collaboration with Maria D'Agostini]
Contributors: Chiarcossi, Graziella; Chiesi, Roberto; D'Agostini, Maria
Publisher: Cineteca di Bologna; Luce Cinecittà; Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bologna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9788895862668
Subjects: Motion picture producers and directors; Biography; Motion pictures; History and criticism; Film
Description: This Pasolini compendium examines the great Italian director and author's life through a detailed survey of his films. Opening with Accattone (1961) and closing with Salò (1975), followed by a section on unrealized works, Pier Paolo Pasolini: My Cinema devotes a chapter to each of Pasolini's movies, supplementing stills and a wealth of documentary material with extended commentary by Pasolini on each film, in the form of interviews, journal notes, stories and essays, as well as screenplay excerpts. The four unrealized films discussed in the book's final chapter are The Savage Father (1963), Notes for a Poem on the Third World (1968), Saint Paul (1968) and Porno-Teo-Kolossal (1973). Also included are photos by some of the great Italian set photographers: Angelo Pennoni, Angelo Novi, Mario Tursi, Mario Dondero, Mimmo Cattarinich, Deborah Beer, Bruno Brunia and Roberto Villa. The book closes with an album of photographs from the archive of Laura Betti, the actress and singer who was Pasolini's close friend and confidante, which include photos of Pasolini with his mother, and in the company of writers such as Alberto Moravia, Carlo Emilio Gadda and Ezra Pound. Set designer Dante Ferretti, who began his career with Pasolini, contributes a foreword. My Cinema offers the most succinct statement of the director's vision in print.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and filmography.
Table of contents: title: My cinema; title: Accattone, 1961; title: Mamma Roma, 1962; title: La ricotta, 1963; title: La Rabbia (The Rage), 1963; title: Comizi d'amore (Love meetings), 1964; title: Sopraluoghi in Palestina per "Il Vangelo secondo Matteo" (Location hunting in Palestine for "The gospel according to St. Matthew"), 1964; title: Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (The gospel according to St. Matthew), 1964); title: Uccellacci e uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows), 1966; title: La terra vista dalla luna (The Earth as seen from the Moon), 1966; title: Che cosa sono le nuvole? (What are the clouds?), 1967; title: Edipo re (Oedipus Rex), 1967; title: Appunti per un film sull'India (Notes for a film on India), 1968; title: Teorema (Theorem), 1968; title: La sequenza del fiore di carta (The paper flower sequence), 1968; title: Porcile (Pigsty), 1969; title: Medea, 1969; title: Appunti per un'Orestiade africana (Notes for an African Orestes), 1970; title: Il Decameron (The Decameron), 1971; title: I racconti di Canterbury (The Canterbury Tales), 1972; title: Le mura di Sana'a (The Walls of Sana'a), 1970-1974; title: Il Fiore delle Mille e una notte (Arabian nights), 1974; title: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò or the 120 days of Sodom), 975; title: Unrealized films; title: Il padre selvaggio (The Savage Father), 1963; title: Appunti per un poema sul Terzo mondo (Notes for a poem on the Third World), 1968; title: San Paolo (Saint Paul), 1968-1974; title: Porno0Teo-Kolossal, 1973-1975.