Director and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in the Kingdom of Italy on this day March 5, 1922. His most well known movies include Accattone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), Theorem (1968), The Decameron (1971), Arabian Nights (1974), and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975).
“I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.”
-Pier Paolo Pasolini