In an ideal world, every filmmaker would live long enough to see the premiere of their final film, even if their life is ended sooner than expected. It’s one thing to experience shooting the film and editing the final product, but it is another thing entirely to witness your creation with an audience seeing …
A work that is chronologically and aesthetically his mid-period film, Teorema is Pier Paolo Pasolini at his finest hour. It is not Neo Realist cousin like Accatone (1961) Mamma Roma (1962), nor is it the debaucherous snarl of Salò (1975); it has a larger portion of the religious parable than The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966), and is as interested in sex as The Decameron (1971).
Sometimes you have to wonder about why people collect DVDs or Blu-rays. Collectors proudly display their stockpile on a shelf, and truth be told, most of the time, these movies are simply used as decor. Whenever I visit someone’s house or apartment for the first time, the first thing that grabs my attention is their …