His father's background helped his career: the elder Bertolucci had helped the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini publish his first novel, and Pasolini reciprocated by hiring Bertolucci as first assistant in Rome on Accattone ( 1961 ), where he met his first wife, Adriana Asti.

Pasolini read all four Gospels straight through, and he claimed that adapting a film from one of them " threw in the shade all the other ideas for work I had in my head.

At a press conference in 1966, Pasolini was asked why he, an unbeliever, had made a film which dealt with religious themes ; his response was, " If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself.

Born in Terlizzi, province of Bari ( Puglia ), Vendola had been a member of the Italian Communist Youth Federation since the age of 14 ; he studied literature in university, presenting a dissertation about the controversial poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Giuseppe Pelosi, who said that Pasolini had made sexual advances toward him, struck Pasolini's skull several times with a piece of wood.

The representatives of the community of Breno sided both on shore Ghibelline ( Betina John Marone and Clarino Ronchi ) than on the Guelph ( Ronchi Francescino of Pasolini ).

Pier Paolo Pasolini was hired to translate Flaiano and Pinelli ’ s dialogue into Roman dialect and to supervise researches in the vice-afflicted suburbs of Rome.

Despite the best intentions, their guarded editorial and business skills forced the company to close down soon after cancelling Pasolini ’ s project, Accattone ( 1961 ).

* Pier Paolo Pasolini ’ s The Gospel According to St. Matthew ( 1964 ).

According to Barth David Schwartz ’ s book Pasolini Requiem ( 1992 ), the impetus for the film took place in 1962.

In 1961 D ' Arrigo played a minor role in Pasolini ’ s first film, Accattone.

The author of A Certain Realism: Making Use of Pasolini ’ s Film Theory and Practice, Maurizio Viano, says that in order to understand the film there must be " adequate translation.

Salò originally ran 145 minutes, but director Pasolini himself removed 25 minutes for story pace.

He has been a friend and collaborator to such eminent intellectuals as Pier Paolo Pasolini ( in whose The Gospel According to St. Matthew he played the part of Philip ), Italo Calvino ( with whom he collaborated, for a short while, as counsellor of the publishing house Einaudi and developed plans for a journal ), Ingeborg Bachmann, Pierre Klossowski, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Antonio Negri, Jean-François Lyotard and others.

As a recompense for the tact displayed on this occasion, he was given by Cavour a permanent appointment in the Italian foreign office, and was subsequently appointed under-secretary of state by Count Pasolini.

In 1963, she became a close friend of the poet and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, for whom she made a documentary after his death.

Among these artists, Pierre et Gilles produced photographs and paintings related to Les Amants Criminels and for the play Vie et Mort de Pier Paolo Pasolini in 2003.

He cooperated on the script of Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma ( Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, 1976 ) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, even though he is not credited for it.

Yet, such renowned documentary and animated film makers were not the only ones to participate and win prizes in Kraków, for the international festival laureates included also numerous artists who made their names as feature film directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Zoltán Huszárik, Jaromil Jireš, Claude Lelouch, Patrice Leconte, Mike Leigh and the recent Oscar laureate, Jan Svěrák.

Stracci represents the poor and the marginalized people, " the ones who hunger for bread " who, according to Pasolini, are neglected by a society, which prides itself on being Christian.

However, Pasolini was accused of holding contempt for the state religion and was convicted.

The lead was played by young Sicilian Franco Merli who was discovered for this film by Pasolini.

The dialogue is primarily taken directly from the Gospel of Matthew, as Pasolini felt that " images could never reach the poetic heights of the text.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (), commonly referred to as Salò, is a 1975 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, with uncredited writing contributions by Pupi Avati.

Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Bertolucci released a documentary in 2006, Pasolini prossimo nostro, based on an interview with Pasolini done on the set of Salò in 1975.

Aermacchi went on to have success in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world with rider Renzo Pasolini finishing second in the 1972 250 cc Roadracing World Championship.

In 1962, at the age of 22, he directed his first feature film, produced by Tonino Cervi with a screenplay by Pier Paolo Pasolini, called La commare secca ( 1962 ).

The work's association with fascism also led Pier Paolo Pasolini to use the movement " Veris Leta Facies " to accompany the concluding scenes of torture and murder in his final film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.

After high school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and, in 1969, started to play in a small local theatre together with some childhood friends ( including Lello Arena and Enzo Decaro ).

Co-director with Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Prominent Italian directors and actors that have worked with Totò include Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino de Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, and Alberto Sordi.

In the 1960s two extraordinary riders competed in the races: Tarquinio Provini, who won the Italian Championship with the 250 in 1965 and Renzo Pasolini who won the Championship with the 250 as well as the 350 in 1968 and 1969.

He was, or is, well acquainted with writers and film directors Aldo Palazzeschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Derek Jarman, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Aldo Braibanti, Mario Zanzotto, Fabio Casadei Turroni, Dacia Maraini, Umberto Eco.

* Capriccio all ' italiana ( Caprice Italian Style, 1968, with Mauro Bolognini, Steno, Pino Zac, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Franco Rossi )

In 1966 Pier Paolo Pasolini filmed The Gospel According to St. Matthew in southern Italy with a cast of non-professional actors.

It was the first time Pasolini worked primarily with professional actors.

Pasolini later expanded this film into a novel with the same name.

*" The Atheist Who Was Obsessed with God " Interview with Pier Paolo Pasolini conducted by Guy Flatley in 1969 ( first published in the New York Times ; posted by Flatley on MovieCrazed )

In summary, the film deals with the film production of the Passion of Jesus with a director acting like Pasolini yet played by Orson Welles.

Thus, in this view, the Roman Catholicism of Italy is more concerned with status and prominence than helping the poor, a teaching of Christ that Pasolini admired greatly.

Enrique Irazoqui ( Jesus ) was a 19-year-old economics student from Spain, and the rest of the cast were mainly locals from Barile, Matera and Massafra, where the film was shot ( Pasolini visited the Holy Land but found the locations unsuitable and " commercialized ").