Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini • 1971 • Italy
Starring Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic
Pier Paolo Pasolini weaves together a handful of Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century moral tales in this picturesque free-for-all. THE DECAMERON explores the delectations and dark corners of an earlier and, as the filmmaker saw it, less compromised time. Among the chief delights are a young man’s exploits with a gang of grave robbers, a flock of randy nuns who sin with a strapping gardener, and Pasolini’s appearance as a pupil of the painter Giotto, at work on a massive fresco. One of the director’s most popular films, THE DECAMERON, trans¬posed to Naples from Boccaccio’s Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex.
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini • 1972 • Italy
Starring Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli
Eight of Geoffrey Chaucer’s lusty tales come to life on-screen in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s gutsy and delirious THE CANTERBURY TALES, which was shot in England and offers a remarkably earthy re-creatio...
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini • 1974 • Italy
Starring Ninetto Davoli, Ines Pellegrini, Franco Citti
Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled to Africa, Nepal, and the Middle East to realize this ambitious cinematic treatment of a selection of stories from the legendary “The Thousand and One Nights.” This ...
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini • 1962 • Italy
Starring Orson Welles
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s contribution to the omnibus film RO.GO.PA.G casts Orson Welles as a director attempting to make a film of the crucifixion of Jesus—all while he, the cast, and crew behave in the most un-Christlike ways ima...
