Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Decameron

A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns;...

Quelli che il cinema

Il falso bugiardo

Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer...

The Canterbury Tales

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

Oedipus Rex

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene mo...

Kill and Pray

A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher....

Morceaux de Cannes

We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glit...

Federico Fellini's Autobiography

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upo...

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pas...

The Hunchback

Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decid...

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th ce...

Love Meetings

Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk abo...

The Walls of Sana'a

The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled with medie...

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

"Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas" (2026) is a Brazilian experimental documentary and film essay direct...

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.

Callas Assoluta

This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned soprano Maria Cal...

Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer

Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on...

Notes for a Film in India

A 1968 short documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini where he visits India in the search of a king who could gi...

In a Future April: The Young Pasolini

A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct cousin, wri...

Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life

Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his actors and frien...

Cinéma et Réalité

In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the...

My Name Is Anna Magnani

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconfo...

The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the ess...

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967

Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in N...

Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey

In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled...

Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound, an acclaimed modern American poet living in Rapallo, was tried for treason because of his radio bro...

Scouting in Palestine

In 1963, accompanied by a newsreel photographer and a Catholic priest, Piero Paolo Pasolini traveled to Palesti...

Io sono nata viaggiando

A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pi...

Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini

A sequence of unpublished photographs by Deborah Beer taken during the filming of the torture scenes on the set...

L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini

On September 14, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini played his last game of football, before his death, in San Benedetto...

Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer

A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest performers...

The Isle of Medea

On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from...

Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus

Portrait of the most rebellious of directors, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The artist marked his time by creating provo...

Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)

Some of the scenes cut from the final editing of Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini, fortunately found by L’Officina...

Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

A journey behind the shooting on the set of Salò, a backstage by Gideon Bachman, recorded during the realizatio...

Salò: Yesterday and Today

A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-...