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MattPage (He/him)

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Jan 20, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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https://twitter.com/faunagrotesque/status/1492696794882531328

Just re-watching this. Had forgotten the credits are sung at the start, which I'm finding pretty hilarious.

https://twitter.com/faunagrotesque/status/1492696794882531328

Also forgot that Rossana Di Rocco, who plays an angel in IL VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO is also in this, first appearing in an angel costume.
#HawksAndSparrows #UccellacciEUccellini

The way #Pasolini's HAWKS AND SPARROWS riffs on Rossellini's earlier FRANCESCO GIULLARE DI DIO (Francis, God's Jester, 1950) is also much more apparent to me this time around.
#UccellacciEUccellini

And there’s a repeat of the implicit criticism in LA RICOTTA of gaudy impiety at locations which are meant to be spiritual. It's that mixing / "contamination" of the profound with the profane.

The crow / raven in HAWKS AND SPARROWS is now claiming contraceptive cream could prevent world hunger.
As far as I recall there's a definite shortage of corvidian Malthusians in western cinema…

He's starting Rossellini and Brecht now.
#Pasolini

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There's strong similarities w/ Buñuel’s MILKY WAY (1969): 2 men on a road trip on foot; a series of bizarre, often religion-related encounters e.g. processions; occasional scenes with sex/sex-workers (particularly just before the film ends). Surrealism very much to the fore etc.

@MastersofCinema

Lastly, the @MastersofCinema DVD release for UCCELLACCI E UCCELLINI has a great intro essay by @PasqualeIannone (which is well worth a read) as well as an excerpt from Stack's interviews with Pasolini.

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Trying to find about a bit more about Moving Picture World staff writer "Rev W H Jackson" who was a regular contributor to MPW in the 1910s. He didn't just review religious films. Here he argues live narrators for movies are vital.
archive.org/details/movinw…

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The narrator of this opening scene sounds like the same guy as did the opening narration to Lina Wertmüller's PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE (1975), or at least someone emulating their voice. IMDb doesn't list a narrator for Wertmüller's film tho sadly.

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