You're warned: Pier Paolo Pasolini may be fashionable again by 2015. In many ways, we should have seen it coming: images of Maria Callas in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea reappeared on the mood board of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli's Spring/Summer 2014 collection for Valentino and the filming in Rome of Pasolini by award-winning director Abel Ferrera - that started in January - wrapped up a few days ago.
Starring Willem Dafoe, Pasolini is based on a screenplay by Ferrara and attempts to recount the last day in the life of the controversial journalist, writer and director.
Pasolini was found dead near a seaplane base in Ostia, Rome, in November 1975, but the case, archived as a homosexual assassination, remains a mystery.
Rather than jumping on the Pasolini bandwagon as many pseudo trendy publications together with Miuccia Prada will undoubtedly do in the next few months, let's try and get more educated about the subject.
To this aim I'm republishing here the text of an interview (translated by myself) to Pier Paolo Pasolini by Furio Colombo that appeared on the "Tuttolibri" supplement of the daily La Stampa on 8th November 1975. The interview (Download PierPaoloPasolini_FurioColomboInterview_1975_byABattista) took place on 1st November 1975, between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., a few hours before Pasolini was killed.
I'm embedding here also A Film Maker's Life by Carlo Hayman-Chaffey, a short documentary about Pasolini, in case you don't have time to read through the interview.
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