Pier Paolo Pasolini Centennial Celebrated by Academy Museum, as Italy Pays Tribute
variety.comNick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAs Italy marks the centennial of Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s birth with a series of special events, the Academy Museum is honoring the influential film director, poet, writer and intellectual, whose 1975 murder remains a mystery, with a complete retrospective.Titled “Carnal Knowledge: The Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini,” the Los Angeles tribute in the Academy’s Renzo Piano designed temple of cinema opened Feb.
17 with Oscar-winning production designer Dante Ferretti on hand.Ferretti, in a moving tribute, said he owed his career to Pasolini, having worked on nine of his films, starting with Pasolini’s first work “The Gospel According to Matthew” and ending with his incendiary condemnation of the Italian upper classes “Salò – or the 120 Days of Sodom,” released in Italy just a few weeks after Pasolini’s murder on Nov.
2, 1975, at age 53, in the seaside town of Ostia outside Rome. The Academy’s complete retro of Pasolini’s fiction films interspersed with some shorts and documentary works from his prolific career is made up almost entirely of 35mm prints recently restored by Cinecittà and the Cineteca di Bologna, the prominent film archives known globally as a prime film preservation entity.
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