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

David is joined by Josh Hornbeck, Brad McDermott and first-time guest Steven Johnson to talk about the first film in Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, based on the medieval writings of Giovanni Boccaccio.

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.

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

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)
Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)
The Eclipse Viewer
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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