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What Movies to See in NYC
The Walter Reade Theater:
11/28/2007 - 12/4/2007 -- Heretical Epiphanies: The Cinematic Pilgrimages of Pier Paolo Pasolini This is a great chance to catch 13 of Pier Paolo Pasolini's films. Included in the series is "Accattone," "The Gospel According to St. Matthew," "The Hawks and the Sparrows," "Mama Roma," "Notes Towards an African Orestes,"
"The Walls of Sana'a," La Ricotta," La Rabbia," "Salo," and Teorema.
Here's how the Film Society of Lincoln Center put it,
“Celebrate Pier Paolo Pasolini in the 13-film look at the cinema of the audacious Italian writer and provocateur. Already an established novelist who had written screenplays for the likes of Federico Fellini and Mauro Bolognini, Pasolini’s first effort as a director (“Accattone” in 1961) more or less reinvented cinema, linking neo-realism and New Wave modernism to a poetic style of moviemaking like no one else’s: linguistic, unflinching in its depiction of society’s castaways and human refuse, yet radically tender. This singular voice remained constant through a tragically brief film career. Pasolini specialized in pageants of abjection, humiliation and fury, and ended with a vision as bracing and controversial as any put on screen: Salo, based on a book by the Marquis de Sade, released two weeks after Pasolini’s murder on the outskirts of Rome in 1975. His books and films continue to inspire, right down to the series’ closing night performance, Accattone in Jazz, featuring two of Italy’s most renowned musicians with one of Italy’s leading actors, Valerio Mastandrea.”
“Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Ashes Poet is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and Fondazione Aida in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna, Fondazione Cinema per Roma and Fondazione Musica per Roma. The main sponsor of the celebration is Consorzio per la Tutela dell’Asti.”
Lincoln Plaza Cinemas has Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There" at 11:00am, 11:40pm, 1:30, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, and 10:30.
