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The Academy Museum honors the centennial of poet, philoso- pher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini with a complete retrospective of his narrative films interspersed with some unique short and documentary works from his prolific career. Though he was a filmmaker for just over a decade, Pasolini’s impact on cinema is profound. An openly gay man and outspoken critic of capitalism and Europe’s bourgeois establishment, Pasolini remained in the crosshairs of the elite for his entire career, which ended tragically when he was murdered weeks before the pre- miere of his most incendiary condemnation of the upper classes: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom . He was 53 years old. Presented almost entirely in preserved 35mm prints, realized by Cinecittà and Cineteca di Bologna, this retrospective will traverse Pasolini’s three main periods: his reinvention of Italian neorealism as a potently lyrical vehicle for devastating portraits of modern life ( Accattone, Mamma Roma ); his searing portraits of the depravity of European society ( Teorema, Porcile ); and his shocking one-two punch of the celebratory Trilogy of Life, a celebration of the primal pleasures of sex set in antiquity, and its antithesis, the devastatingly bleak World War II horrorshow Salò . This series launches the Academy Museum's partnership with Cinecittà in support of an annual programming series of Italian Cinema.
Programmed and notes by Bernardo Rondeau Viewer discretion is strongly advised for all the films in this series.
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