During the 1960s Pier Paolo Pasolini made two films based on ancient Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex and Medea. In the latter, Maria Callas played the heroine with predictably operatic bravura â?" dark ...

Maria Callas stars in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film "Medea." UCLA. Many of us were born too late to see Maria Callas, who died in 1977, in the opera house.

Just about anything you would want to know about gay Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini is showcased in Criterion's essential collection of nine Pasolini films, with extended interviews and a ...

But Maria Callas is one opera singer who did make the switch, to historic effect, albeit only once—in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Medea,” from 1969, which is exactly the kind of movie that has ...

Event details about MEDEA starring Maria Callas Screening in Pasolini 100: Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini in San Francisco on September 10, 2022 - watch, listen, photos and tickets ...

Pasolini's interpretation of the classical Greek myth tells the story of Jason and his disastrous love affair with the high priestess Medea (Maria Callas). When he turns unfaithful, she avenges ...

"I thought, 'Do I have to confess I went to this movie?' But everybody was doing it," said Antonucci, curator and producer of a Pasolini retrospective in San Francisco that will feature six newly ...

Willem Dafoe as director Pier Paolo Pasolini in “Pasolini,” directed by Abel Ferrara. The 2014 film dramatizes the life of the Italian filmmaker, who was the victim in an unsolved murdered in ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Known for his controversial and provocative works, Pasolini’s films often explored themes of ...

"Pasolini 101"; Pier Paolo Pasonlini on a film set When people hear the name Pasolini, if they recognize it at all, it's primarily due to two references: one, his brutal murder by a male prostitute ...