October 9, 2018 (XXXVII:7) Pier Paolo Pasolini: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (1964, 137 min.) Online versions of The Goldenrod Handouts have color images & hot links: http://csac.buffalo.edu/goldenrodhandouts.html DIRECTED BY Pier Paolo Pasolini WRITTEN BY Pier Paolo Pasolini PRODUCED BY Alfredo Bini MUSIC Luis Bacalov CINEMATOGRAPHY Tonino Delli Colli EDITING Nino Baragli PRODUCTION DESIGN Luigi Scaccianoce SET DECORATION Andrea Fantacci COSTUME DESIGN Danilo Donati MAKEUP Marcello Ceccarelli (makeup artist), Lamberto Marini (assistant makeup artist), Mimma Pomilia (hair stylist) ART DEPARTMENT Dante Ferretti SOUND Fausto Ancillai (sound mixer), Mario Del Pezzo (sound) VISUAL EFFECTS Ettore Catalucci COSTUME AND WARDROBE Piero Cicoletti (assistant Renato Terra...Un indemoniato costumer), Piero Farani (wardrobe) Eliseo Boschi...Giuseppe D'Arimatea Natalia Ginzburg...Maria di Betania CAST Enrique Irazoqui...Cristo PIER PAOLO PASOLINI (b. March 5, 1922 in Bologna, Margherita Caruso...Maria (giovane) Emilia-Romagna, Italy—d. November 2, 1975 (age 53) in Ostia, Susanna Pasolini...Maria (vecchia) Rome, Lazio, Italy) was published poet at 19 and had already Marcello Morante...Giuseppe written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in Mario Socrate...Giovanni Battista 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own Settimio Di Porto...Pietro novel. He was arrested in 1962 when his contribution to Alfonso Gatto...Andrea Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963) was considered blasphemous. The original Luigi Barbini...Giacomo Italian title of The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), a Giacomo Morante...Giovanni realistic, stripped-down presentation of the life of Christ, Il Giorgio Agamben...Filippo vangelo secondo Matteo, pointedly omitted “Saint” in St. Guido Cerretani...Bartolomeo Matthew. He would go on to make scandalously erotic Rosario Migale...Tommaso adaptations of classic literary texts: Oedipus Rex (1967); The Ferruccio Nuzzo...Matteo Decameron (1971); The Canterbury Tales (1972); Arabian Marcello Galdini...Giacomo figlio di Alfeo Nights (1974), as well as more personal projects, expressing his Elio Spaziani...Taddeo controversial views on Marxism, atheism, fascism and Enzo Siciliano...Simone homosexuality, notably Teorema (1968) (Theorem), Pigsty and Otello Sestili...Giuda the notorious Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), a Juan Rodolfo Wilcock...Caifa (as Rodolfo Wilcock) relentlessly grim fusion of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy with Alessandro Clerici...Ponzio Pilato the 'Marquis de Sade' which was banned in Italy and many other Amerigo Bevilacqua...Erode I countries for several years. Pasolini was murdered in still- Francesco Leonetti...Erode II mysterious circumstances shortly after completing the film. He Franca Cupane...Erodiade directed 26 films and wrote 56 films. Paola Tedesco...Salomè Rossana Di Rocco...L'Angelo del Signore Pasolini—THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW—2 These are the other films he directed: Mamma Roma (1962), La MARGHERITA CARUSO (1950 in Italy) acted in 1 film: The rabbia (1963, Documentary, part one), Love Meetings (1964, Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964). Documentary), Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo (1965, Documentary), The Hawks and the Sparrows SUSANNA PASOLINI (b. March 10, 1891 in Casarsa della (1966); The Witches (segment "Terra vista dalla luna, La") and Delizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy—d. February 1, 1981 (age Pasolini intervista: Ezra Pound (TV Short documentary, 89) in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy) acted in two films. She uncredited) in 1967; Capriccio all'italiana (segment "Che cosa was married to Carlo Alberto Pasolini, and was Pier Paolo sono le nuvole?"), Appunti per un film sull'India (TV Short Pasolini’s mother. We can only speculate about the significance documentary), and of Pasolini casting his Teorema in 1968; Love mother to play Mary, and Anger (segment "La the mother of Christ sequenza del fiore di in The Gospel carta"), Porcile, and According to St. Medea in 1969; Appunti Matthew (1964). She per un romanzo also appeared as an dell'immondezza “Old Peasant” in (Documentary) and Pasolini’s Teorema Notes Towards an (1968). African Orestes (Documentary) in 1970; MARCELLO The Walls of Sana'a MORANTE (b. 1916 (1971, Documentary in Rome, Lazio, short) and 12 dicembre Italy—d. 2005 (age (1972, Documentary, 89) in Italy) acted in 1 uncredited). film: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964). TONINO DELLI COLLI (b. November 20, 1922 in Rome, Lazio, Italy—d. August 16, 2005 (age 82) in Rome, Lazio, Italy) MARIO SOCRATE (b. 1920—d. March 27, 2012 (age 92) in did cinematography for 143 films, some of which are: Rome, Lazio, Italy) acted in 1 film: The Gospel According to St. Finalmente sì (1944), O sole mio (1946), City of Pain (1949), Matthew (1964). Toto the Third Man (1951), and Mid-Century Loves (1954); Female Three Times, Questo nostro mondo (Documentary), and SETTIMIO DI PORTO acted in 1 film: The Gospel According Seven Hills of Rome (director of photography) in 1957; First to St. Matthew (1964). Love (1959) and The Thief of Baghdad (1961, director of photography); Mamma Roma and Swordsman of Siena (director JUAN RODOLFO WILCOCK (b. April 17, 1919 in Buenos of photography) in 1962; The Executioner (1963, director of Aires, Argentina—d. March 16, 1978 (age 58) in Lubriano, photography); Amori pericolosi (segment "Il generale") and The Lazio, Italy) was an Argentine writer, poet, critic and translator. Gospel According to St. Matthew in 1964; The Good, the Bad He acted in one film: The Gospel According to St. Matthew and the Ugly (1966, director of photography), Once Upon a Time (1964). in the West (1968, director of photography), Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970, director of photography), The Decameron ALESSANDRO CLERICI acted in one film: The Gospel (1971), and The Canterbury Tales (1972); Lacombe, Lucien and According to St. Matthew (1964). Till Marriage Do Us Part in 1974; Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (director of photography) and Seven Beauties in 1975; PAOLA TEDESCO (b. March 28, 1952 in Rome, Lazio, Italy) I'm Photogenic (1980) and Once Upon a Time in America acted in 35 films, including: The Gospel According to St. (1984); Ginger and Fred (director of photography) and The Matthew (1964), Romeo and Juliet (1968), Satyricon (1969), Name of the Rose (director of photography) in 1986; Death and Lady Barbara (1970), and Crime Boss (1972); Fury and Battle of the Maiden (1994) and Life Is Beautiful (1997, director of the Amazons in 1973; Dream of Zorro (1975), Ring of Darkness photography). (1979), Lucky and Zorba (1998), and Idomeneo, re di Creta (2005, Video). ENRIQUE IRAZOQUI (b. July 5, 1944 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), at nineteen, was a Spanish PIER PAOLO PASOLINI (From World Film Directors, Vol. economics student who after meeting in a political event was cast II, ed. John Wakeman, H.W. Wilson Co, NY:1988). by Pasolini to play the role of Christ in The Gospel according to Italian director, scenarist, actor, poet, and critic, was born in St. Matthew (1964). He has occasionally taken acting roles since, Bologna. He grew up there and in various other northern Italian including a 2016 comedy that shares the title of his 1964 film towns where his father, a regular army officer, was stationed. with Pasolini: Il vangelo secondo Mattei. His other films are: “My origins are fairly typical of petit bourgeois Italian society,” Noche de vino tinto (1966), Dante no es únicamente severo Pasolini told Oswold Stack. “I am a product of the Unity of Italy. (1967), The Long Winter (1992), A la soledat (2008), and El My father belonged to an old noble family of the Romagna, aullido (2009, Short). while my mother comes from a Friulan peasant family which Pasolini—THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW—3 subsequently became petit bourgeois.” Pasolini was in constant still sustain, though the bourgeoisie has done all in its power to conflict with his father, who supported fascism and was destroy it.” “overbearing, egotistic, egocentric, tyrannical, and authoritarian, The thesis on contemporary Italian painting that although at the same time extraordinarily naïve”; his mother he Pasolini had begun at Bologna was lost in his escape from the loved with an “excessive even monstrous love.” Pasolini wrote Germans. When he returned to the university in the late 1940s, and illustrated his first poems when he he switched to literature, writing a thesis on was seven. Ten years later he began to the nineteenth century Friulan poet write verse in Friulan, the old Giovanni Pascoli. In 1950 he went to Rome, language (not dialect) spoken by the where he endured great poverty before peasants of his mother’s region, which finding an ill-paid teaching job. During he often visited. these lean years he lived on the Ponte Educated in an assortment of Mammolo, a suburban slum. There he came Catholic and state schools, Pasolini to know the male and female prostitutes, became an agnostic when he was pimps, thieves, and hustlers whose company fourteen or fifteen. By then he was as he continued to enjoy all his life. Pasolini interested in painting as in poetry, and was himself on various occasions charged at the University of Bologna began as with criminal offenses—attempting to rob a a student of the history of art. His first filling station, helping a bandit to escape book of poems was published in 1942 from the police–earning journalistic as Poesie a Casarsa (“Poetry to comparisons with François Villon and Casarsa,” his mother’s home town in (partly on account of his homosexuality) Friul). Pasolini’s studies were with Jean Genet. The criminal and near- interrupted in August 1942 when he criminal Roman subproletariat populated his was drafted into the collapsing Italian novels and acted in his films, and in the end army, then sill on the German side. A one of them killed him. week after his conscription, Italy Pasolini’s first novel, Ragazzi di vita surrendered, and a few days after that (1955, translated The Ragazzi) caused a Pasolini’s entire regiment was national uproar.