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Pasolini

American  
[pah-suh-lee-nee, pah-saw-lee-nee] / ˌpɑ səˈli ni, ˌpɑ sɔˈli ni /

noun

  1. Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.


Pasolini British  
/ pazoˈlini /

noun

  1. Pier Paolo (pjɛr ˈpaːolo). 1922–75, Italian film director. His films include The Gospel according to St Matthew (1964), Oedipus Rex (1967), Theorem (1968), Pigsty (1969), and Decameron (1970)

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Uberto Pasolini tackles Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” with his intimate and muscular adaptation “The Return.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2024

A new comedy-drama TV series from the same writer, Simon Beaufoy, and producer, Uberto Pasolini, returns to those characters more than two decades later in a compelling portrait of contemporary Britain.

From Seattle Times Jun. 16, 2023

She said she had turned down, at least for now, an offer to play Medea — not coincidentally, perhaps, the role that gave Callas her sole movie experience, under the direction of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 2023

They take issues that I quote Duras and Pasolini.

From Salon Jan. 9, 2023

Pier Paolo Pasolini, an admirer of Gramsci and a very sophisticated artist, wrote some of his works in the Friaul dialect and in the argot used by the poor youngsters of the streets of Rome.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

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