Pasolini

[ pah-suh-lee-nee; Italian pah-saw-lee-nee ]

noun

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

Pasolini

/ pazoˈlini /

noun

1. PasoliniPier Paolo19221975MItalianFILMS AND TV: director 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)

Example Sentences

The picture was written and directed by Uberto Pasolini, the Italian-born filmmaker who was the producer of the 1997 crowd-pleaser “The Full Monty.”

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Although he shares a surname with the acclaimed director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Uberto is in fact a nephew of the neorealist cinema giant Luchino Visconti.

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Pasolini doesn’t seem directly influenced by his actual relative or his namesake.

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The Taviani brothers emerged in the late 1950s as part of a generation of Italian filmmakers — including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gillo Pontecorvo — who were inspired by the country’s Neorealist movement but determined to push beyond it.

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Corrin, who uses they/them pronouns, had flown in from London the day before and seemed overwhelmed by the selection, spinning a display of pulp paperbacks, picking up and putting down a new translation of a Pier Paolo Pasolini novel.

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