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2 days ago · Boccaccio’s stories have not appeared on screen since 1971 when Italian film maker and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) filmed a loose rendition of twelve of the stories as the first of what became known as his Trilogy of Life films. The other two were The Canterbury Tales in1972 and the Arabian Nights in 1974.
1 day ago · Everyone from Shakespeare to Martin Luther to Pier Paolo Pasolini has taken a crack at retelling one or more tales from Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron.First published in 1353, the short story collection follows 10 noblemen and women as they flee Black Death-ridden Florence for a secluded villa in Fiesole.
4 days ago · English translations of the book have often been heavily abridged, while even relatively faithful adaptations like the Italian auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1971 film The Decameron depict just a ...
1 day ago · These stories are consistently entertaining, and collectively – though not explicitly -- they suggest a yearning to return to the life before the plague. Pier Paolo Pasolini made a ribald, powerful “The Decameron” in 1971, but his movie, being a movie, could only dramatize a handful of the 100 stories in Boccaccio’s book.
1 day ago · Everyone from Shakespeare to Martin Luther to Pier Paolo Pasolini has taken a crack at retelling one or more tales from Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron. First published in 1353, the short story collection follows 10 noblemen and women as they flee Black Death-ridden Florence for a secluded villa in Fiesole. Over the course of a […]
1 day ago · Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Italian: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma), billed on-screen as Pasolini's 120 Days of Sodom on English-language prints and commonly referred to as simply Salò (Italian:), is a 1975 political drama art horror film directed and co-written by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1785 novel ...
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4 days ago · Kiarostami, along with Jean Cocteau, Satyajit Ray, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Derek Jarman, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, was a filmmaker who expressed himself in other genres, such as poetry, set designs, painting, or photography. They expressed their interpretation of the world and their understanding of our preoccupations and identities.
