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Pier Paolo Pasolini @ MoMA: Teorema (1968)
While Teorema is difficult for me to watch (talk about disrupting the bourgeois expectation of linearity), I adore its dreamy quality. Dreamy because of the unhampered Milanese bourgeois life, because of the random, misplaced, but […]

Pier Paolo Pasolini@MoMA: Mamma Roma (1962)
Part social critique, part melodrama and entirely thrilling, this is probably one of Pasolini’s most mainstream and “linear” films, much closer in theme and feel to his Italian neo-realist peers. As with many of these […]
Pier Paolo Pasolini@MoMA: Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (1964)
One of my favorite films in PPP’s oeuvre, this was very moving to watch on the big screen. This wonderfully-restored 35mm version has lost none of its power, its wonder, and its faith. I am […]