Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Born: March 5, 1922
Died: November 2, 1975 (aged 53)
Bio: Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual. Pasolini also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, philosopher, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, painter and political figure.
Known for:
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
- The Decameron (1971)
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
- Theorem (1968)
- Accattone (1961)