Pasolini's Feature Length Films, Ranked

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A cinematic poet, and true original. From the earthy sacredness of Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo to the miry profanity and despair of Salo, Pasolini was also a man who used celluloid like the great masters used a fresco or canvas. Salo is powerful, but understandably divisive as to whether it is art or the basest pornography. Whichever side one takes, the film is undeniably one of the most controversial even some thirty years later which is a testament, however grim, to Pasolini’s genius and the potential power of cinema. For me, his greatest failure and most embarassing work is The Canterbury Tales. Even that film has its moments though.

• 01
  The Gospel According to St. Matthew
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 02
  Arabian Nights
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 03
  Mamma Roma
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 04
  Oedipus Rex
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 05
  Porcile
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 06
  Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 07
  The Decameron
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 08
  Accattone
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 09
  Medea
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 10
  Teorema
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 11
  Hawks and Sparrows
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 12
  The Canterbury Tales
  Pier Paolo Pasolini