Thread by @MattPage

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.
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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.

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.