Criterion Reflections – Episode 60 – Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Decameron

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Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of this third season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1971 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Josh Hornbeck, Brad McDermott and Steven Johnson to discuss The Decameron, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Episode Links:

Pier Paolo Pasolini

• The Criterion Collection
• The Criterion Channel
• BFI
• Film Comment (1965 interview)
• New World Encyclopedia
• Poetry Foundation
• TSPDT

The Decameron (film)

• The Criterion Collection
• Wikipedia
• Decameron Web (Brown University)
• Pasolini’s Laugh: Joyful Ignorance in the Decameron (Western University)
• New York Times (1971)
• Cinepassion
• Criterion Confessions
• Electric Sheep
• Movie Rapture
• Not Coming to a Theater Near You
• Ogg’s Movie Thoughts
• Q Network
• Slant
• The Digital Fix
• The Spinning Image

The Decameron (text)

• Wikipedia
• Giovanni Boccaccio (Wikipedia bio)
• Decameron Web
• Project Gutenberg
• Three Gold Bees
• The New Yorker (2013 review of a recommended, though abridged, modern translation)

Artwork Referenced in Pasolini’s The Decameron

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

Giotto, The Last Judgement

Giotto, Madonna and Child

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