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Monday, June 04, 2012

FILMMAKER & POET ~~Pier Paolo Pasolini DOCUMENTARY



Pier Paolo Pasolini

Born March 5, 1922(1922-03-05)
Bologna, Italy
Died November 2, 1975(1975-11-02) (aged 53)
Ostia, Rome, Italy
Occupation Novelist, poet, intellectual, film director, journalist, linguist, philosopher
Notable work(s) Accattone
Salò
Ragazzi di vita
Le ceneri di Gramsci
La religione del mio tempo

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Influences[show]Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Novalis, Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Giovanni Pascoli, Antonio Gramsci

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Influenced[show]Sylvia Plath, Alberto Moravia, Sergei Parajanov, Ermanno Olmi, Nanni Moretti, Kathy Acker, Diamanda Galás

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Signature

Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 -- November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. 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.

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