Pier Paolo Pasolini's acclaimed 1969 film MEDEA screens on September 10 at the Castro Theatre as part of Cinema Italia SF's Pasolini 100: Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini. This adaptation of Euripides's ...
Many of us were born too late to see Maria Callas, who died in 1977, in the opera house. But we soon will be able to experience the legendary diva on the big screen. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ...
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 ...
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 (and perhaps a criminal syndicate group) or his later ...
These taxing scenes are shot in what I guess to be the singular Cappadocian heart of Turkey. Then, after Medea’s equally brutal departure with the Argonauts, we’re whisked to Corinth, which is ...
The popular singers who make good as dramatic actors are legion, but few opera singers have made the transition to movie acting successfully—not least, because the stylization of opera, unlike that of ...
In Pasolini's vision, Euripides' Medea becomes an emblem of the Third World deceived and exploited by the pragmatic rationality of the West (Jason). The sequences of human sacrifice, shot in Turkey, ...
A reworking of the BBC television programme The Hidden God: Alain Robbe-Grillet using methods appropriated from Pasolini’s trailer for his 1969 film Medea. Stephen Sutcliffe (born 1968, Harrogate) ...