Word: pasolini
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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First, though, let me emphasize the virtues of Pier Paolo Pasolini's work, for it is surely the best new movie to arrive in Boston this year; defects appear only when it is compared to the master-pieces of its genre...
...Second, Pasolini often pans across a blurred background, following the face of a running man. The emotional impact of such images underlines what I take to be the dominant image of the film: Christ walking through Israel, tracked from behind...
...Third, Pasolini has used the "zoom" lens both ostentatiously and successfully--an unprecedented combination. Somehow a "zoom" shot always seems a portent of Revelation--which is what Pasolini uses it to depict...
...GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. The life of Christ in a fresh and fascinating film based wholly on Scripture and played like an act of faith by a non-professional cast under Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist...
...contradiction in terms: a truly faithful Biblical film made by a Communist, Italian Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who employs only nonprofessional actors and uses a script based entirely on Holy Writ...