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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maria Callas had her only nonsinging dramatic role in Pier Paolo Pasolini's conception of Euripides' play about a betrayed wife's vengeance. Creon: Massimo Girotti. Jason: Giuseppe Gentili ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini: Sept. 20-Oct. 31 at Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley. (510) 642-1124. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu. Article continues below this ad ...

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 ...

The all-day celebration, “Pasolini 100: An Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini,” is set for Saturday at the Castro Theatre. Five films and a reception make up the very Italian bill.

The set comes with a 95-page booklet that includes an essay by Pasolini, "Why Cinema?" plus some of his short writings and drawings as well as an introduction to Pasolini, "The Elegiac Heart: Pier ...