BFI In Pasolini Retrospective

BFI Southbank has announced it will be showcasing a retrospective of renowned and controversial director Pier Paolo Pasolini this March and April.
The two-part season will look back on the career of the director who challenged cinematic preconceptions with films like Mamma Roma (1962), Medea (1969) and the notorious Salò (1975).
Many of these celebrated films will be shown in recently restored versions, and all are presented in newly struck prints, realised by Luce Cinecittà (unless otherwise noted).
Pasolini's legacy has inspired and paved the way for filmmakers across the world, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Derek Jarman, Gus Van Sant and Martin Scorsese.
Born in 1922, he was a director, novelist, poet, linguist, painter and journalist with an outspoken political agenda.
He was expelled from the Italian Communist Party as a young man and the clash between his non-aligned leftism and defiant homosexuality reverberates through many of his films.
He is credited with reinventing the language of cinema as a kind of poetry, and he is renowned for his cinematic tableau which were inspired by Renaissance painting.
The season begins with Accattone (aka The Scrounger, 1961), Mamma Roma (1962), Love Meetings (Comizi d’amore, 1964) and The Gospel According to Matthew (Sopraluoghi in Palestina per Il Vangelo secondo Matteo, 1964).
The BFI Southbank is open to all, but BFI members are entitled to a discount on all tickets. For more information, contact
www.bfi.org.uk/southbank
(IT)