Kent Martin
@kentasticvoyage.bsky.social
Digital & Event Marketer 🎥 Cinephile & physical media collector 📚Book addict 🐶 Dad 🇮🇹 in Bologna, Italy, 🏳️🌈 let’s mingle
Sharing newly framed portrait for my kitchen of legendary horror icon, cookbook author and art connoisseur, Vincent Price, and his signed note: “My best and Bon appetit, Vincent Price, 1975, Denver.”
September 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Sharing newly framed portrait for my kitchen of legendary horror icon, cookbook author and art connoisseur, Vincent Price, and his signed note: “My best and Bon appetit, Vincent Price, 1975, Denver.”
Alright, I know it's cliché to post about food on Christmas. But here we go! I'm working on a Bolognese winter treat: tortellini in brodo, a side of veggies and you bet I'm gonna finish it off with a generous slice of chocolate and almond panettone bread!
December 24, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Alright, I know it's cliché to post about food on Christmas. But here we go! I'm working on a Bolognese winter treat: tortellini in brodo, a side of veggies and you bet I'm gonna finish it off with a generous slice of chocolate and almond panettone bread!
Warning: holiday corn ahead! Wishing everyone a very Stanwyck Christmas! 🎄 Whether you’re faking it till you make it in a Connecticut farmhouse, Remembering the Night over a glass of eggnog, or having a Meet-cute with John Doe under mistletoe...have a Ball (of Fire) friends! Merry Christmas!
December 23, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Warning: holiday corn ahead! Wishing everyone a very Stanwyck Christmas! 🎄 Whether you’re faking it till you make it in a Connecticut farmhouse, Remembering the Night over a glass of eggnog, or having a Meet-cute with John Doe under mistletoe...have a Ball (of Fire) friends! Merry Christmas!
Here are my favorite films & discoveries (first time watches) from 2024 ranked!
1. Perfect Days
2. The Wages of Fear
3. Bicycle Thieves
4. Oddity
5. The Substance
6. Woman in Chains
7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
8. Went the Day Well?
9. Patterns
10. MadS
1. Perfect Days
2. The Wages of Fear
3. Bicycle Thieves
4. Oddity
5. The Substance
6. Woman in Chains
7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
8. Went the Day Well?
9. Patterns
10. MadS
December 22, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Here are my favorite films & discoveries (first time watches) from 2024 ranked!
1. Perfect Days
2. The Wages of Fear
3. Bicycle Thieves
4. Oddity
5. The Substance
6. Woman in Chains
7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
8. Went the Day Well?
9. Patterns
10. MadS
1. Perfect Days
2. The Wages of Fear
3. Bicycle Thieves
4. Oddity
5. The Substance
6. Woman in Chains
7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
8. Went the Day Well?
9. Patterns
10. MadS
Oddity, directed by Damian McCarthy, captures the eerie vibe of classic M.R. James or Algernon Blackwood ghost stories but cranks up the dread. For this reason, to me it feels perfect for a Christmastime watch. I saw it last night for the first time, and it’s a late add to my favorite list for 2024.
December 22, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Oddity, directed by Damian McCarthy, captures the eerie vibe of classic M.R. James or Algernon Blackwood ghost stories but cranks up the dread. For this reason, to me it feels perfect for a Christmastime watch. I saw it last night for the first time, and it’s a late add to my favorite list for 2024.
Pasolini's "Mamma Roma" (1962) and De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves" (1948) have intriguing links. Lamberto Maggiorani, the father in "Bicycle Thieves", makes a brief appearance in 'Mamma Roma" as a hospital patient whose radio Ettore steals. Perhaps a subtle nod to De Sica's iconic neorealist classic.
December 12, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Pasolini's "Mamma Roma" (1962) and De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves" (1948) have intriguing links. Lamberto Maggiorani, the father in "Bicycle Thieves", makes a brief appearance in 'Mamma Roma" as a hospital patient whose radio Ettore steals. Perhaps a subtle nod to De Sica's iconic neorealist classic.
Magnani to Pasolini: I think we need to have small conflicts to clarify things. Two intelligent people can always come to some kind of understanding.
December 7, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Magnani to Pasolini: I think we need to have small conflicts to clarify things. Two intelligent people can always come to some kind of understanding.
On the enigmatic final scene: "Mamma Roma facing the white, encroaching city. There is a kind of silent gaze between these two remote, unconnected worlds, which are like two different universes."
- Pasolini in interview, Filmcritica, no. 125, September 1962
- Pasolini in interview, Filmcritica, no. 125, September 1962
December 7, 2024 at 1:26 PM
On the enigmatic final scene: "Mamma Roma facing the white, encroaching city. There is a kind of silent gaze between these two remote, unconnected worlds, which are like two different universes."
- Pasolini in interview, Filmcritica, no. 125, September 1962
- Pasolini in interview, Filmcritica, no. 125, September 1962
1/2 Magnani to Pasolini: I know that you work with actors you take from the streets and shape like clay in your hands. Even with their instinctual intelligence, they become your robots. I am not a robot. I've had your script in my hands for 3 months now; analyzed even the smallest detail of feeling.
December 7, 2024 at 1:04 PM
1/2 Magnani to Pasolini: I know that you work with actors you take from the streets and shape like clay in your hands. Even with their instinctual intelligence, they become your robots. I am not a robot. I've had your script in my hands for 3 months now; analyzed even the smallest detail of feeling.
#filmsky here's a peek at modern bldg where Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in 1922 in Bologna Italy + bonus baby photos. a clip from vid i made for the "120 Days of Pasolini" group on @cinejourneys.bsky.social - I plan to film more locations. Join our Pasolini discussion group!
youtu.be/SJzipTbFunc
youtu.be/SJzipTbFunc
Birthplace of Pier Paolo Pasolini - 120 Days of Pasolini 2025
YouTube video by Kent Martin
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December 6, 2024 at 5:21 PM
#filmsky here's a peek at modern bldg where Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in 1922 in Bologna Italy + bonus baby photos. a clip from vid i made for the "120 Days of Pasolini" group on @cinejourneys.bsky.social - I plan to film more locations. Join our Pasolini discussion group!
youtu.be/SJzipTbFunc
youtu.be/SJzipTbFunc
Your boy is fully prepped for 2025 with a new Hobonichi planner, and couldn’t be happier! If you know, you know: this Japanese brand makes the best paper planners out there (and trust me, I’ve tried plenty). Any fellow Techo enthusiasts out there?
#Hobonichi #PlannerNerd #TechoLove #NotPaidtoPost
#Hobonichi #PlannerNerd #TechoLove #NotPaidtoPost
December 6, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Your boy is fully prepped for 2025 with a new Hobonichi planner, and couldn’t be happier! If you know, you know: this Japanese brand makes the best paper planners out there (and trust me, I’ve tried plenty). Any fellow Techo enthusiasts out there?
#Hobonichi #PlannerNerd #TechoLove #NotPaidtoPost
#Hobonichi #PlannerNerd #TechoLove #NotPaidtoPost
Interviewer: "What is your working relationship with Pasolini?"
Magnani: "There is mutual respect. He has a new way of working, with many close-ups. He 'writes' with the actors' faces. It's difficult, because I can't bring an emotion to completion. However, it's an interesting experience."
Magnani: "There is mutual respect. He has a new way of working, with many close-ups. He 'writes' with the actors' faces. It's difficult, because I can't bring an emotion to completion. However, it's an interesting experience."
December 2, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Interviewer: "What is your working relationship with Pasolini?"
Magnani: "There is mutual respect. He has a new way of working, with many close-ups. He 'writes' with the actors' faces. It's difficult, because I can't bring an emotion to completion. However, it's an interesting experience."
Magnani: "There is mutual respect. He has a new way of working, with many close-ups. He 'writes' with the actors' faces. It's difficult, because I can't bring an emotion to completion. However, it's an interesting experience."
Pasolini: "I am interested in capturing the characters' feelings at their culminating moments. I ask Magnani - who is used to sculpting her characters with the style of a sculptor of monuments - to work like a goldsmith - that is, to say the lines one by one, as if they were little pieces of gold."
December 2, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Pasolini: "I am interested in capturing the characters' feelings at their culminating moments. I ask Magnani - who is used to sculpting her characters with the style of a sculptor of monuments - to work like a goldsmith - that is, to say the lines one by one, as if they were little pieces of gold."
1/2 Pasolini's on his film technique during Mamma Roma: "I shoot in very short shots - shots that don't last more than two, three minutes at most of close-ups, full figures, basic movements - which I then coordinate in edits exactly what I have in mind before shooting."
Not ideal for Magnani...
Not ideal for Magnani...
December 2, 2024 at 10:53 PM
1/2 Pasolini's on his film technique during Mamma Roma: "I shoot in very short shots - shots that don't last more than two, three minutes at most of close-ups, full figures, basic movements - which I then coordinate in edits exactly what I have in mind before shooting."
Not ideal for Magnani...
Not ideal for Magnani...
Anna Magnani had become picky with projects but wanted to work with Pasolini, after reading the script for Mamma Roma she says: "Have you seen Accattone? Well, I think that if someone, in the first film of his life, manages to write that way with the camera, as a director he offers every guarantee."
December 1, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Anna Magnani had become picky with projects but wanted to work with Pasolini, after reading the script for Mamma Roma she says: "Have you seen Accattone? Well, I think that if someone, in the first film of his life, manages to write that way with the camera, as a director he offers every guarantee."
Laura Betti, Italian actress and singer, was a close friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring in 7 of his films, from La ricotta to Salò. She donated key archives to Cineteca di Bologna, founding the Pasolini Study Center. Her eclectic career included voicing the Demon in The Exorcist (Italian dub).
November 28, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Laura Betti, Italian actress and singer, was a close friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring in 7 of his films, from La ricotta to Salò. She donated key archives to Cineteca di Bologna, founding the Pasolini Study Center. Her eclectic career included voicing the Demon in The Exorcist (Italian dub).
Pasolini's literature and films present the Roman slums as the repository of an archaic culture and folkloric society, founded upon a pre-Christian and pre-bourgeois set of values and traditions - the urban periphery as an ancient culture lost in a neocapitalist world of industry and consumerism.
November 26, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Pasolini's literature and films present the Roman slums as the repository of an archaic culture and folkloric society, founded upon a pre-Christian and pre-bourgeois set of values and traditions - the urban periphery as an ancient culture lost in a neocapitalist world of industry and consumerism.
Pasolini first considered professional actor Franco Interlenghi for Accattone but chose Franco Citti, a non-actor whose real-life experiences mirrored the character. In his career, Pasolini tended to choose actors for their authenticity and essence rather than their acting skills.
November 22, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Pasolini first considered professional actor Franco Interlenghi for Accattone but chose Franco Citti, a non-actor whose real-life experiences mirrored the character. In his career, Pasolini tended to choose actors for their authenticity and essence rather than their acting skills.
Pasolini's lifelong friend, Giorgio Bassani, author of The "Garden of the Finzi-Continis" helped Pasolini during his early years in Rome. Bassani helped Pasolini get his first screenwriting gig on the film, "La Donna Del Fiume" trans. "The River Woman" (Sophia Loren's first dramatic role).
November 21, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Pasolini's lifelong friend, Giorgio Bassani, author of The "Garden of the Finzi-Continis" helped Pasolini during his early years in Rome. Bassani helped Pasolini get his first screenwriting gig on the film, "La Donna Del Fiume" trans. "The River Woman" (Sophia Loren's first dramatic role).
During Accattone's early production, the working title Stella ("star" in Italian) reflected the importance of Franca Pasut’s role. Cast as an unknown from Pasolini’s beloved Friuli, Pasut’s Stella, initially targeted by Accattone for exploitation, inspires love in him, changing intentions completely
November 20, 2024 at 11:44 AM
During Accattone's early production, the working title Stella ("star" in Italian) reflected the importance of Franca Pasut’s role. Cast as an unknown from Pasolini’s beloved Friuli, Pasut’s Stella, initially targeted by Accattone for exploitation, inspires love in him, changing intentions completely
When Pasolini began production on Accattone, his cinematic 'North Star' was Carl Theodor Dreyer, in addition to pictorial references (especially Masaccio). He wrote, "Dreyer's suggestion was inside me, I followed a rule of absolute expressive simplicity."
November 19, 2024 at 11:03 AM
When Pasolini began production on Accattone, his cinematic 'North Star' was Carl Theodor Dreyer, in addition to pictorial references (especially Masaccio). He wrote, "Dreyer's suggestion was inside me, I followed a rule of absolute expressive simplicity."
Curious about Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of Italian cinema's boldest visionaries? Check out our free immersive experience with his films at CineJourneys. Discussions led by scholars and film buffs. Explore a true iconoclast—register here: cinejourneys.com/120-days-of-...
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November 18, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Curious about Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of Italian cinema's boldest visionaries? Check out our free immersive experience with his films at CineJourneys. Discussions led by scholars and film buffs. Explore a true iconoclast—register here: cinejourneys.com/120-days-of-...
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Pasolini's criticism of consumerism in 1960:
Other fashions, other idols,
the mass, not the people, the mass
intent on being corrupted
now looks out onto the world
and transforms it, drinking its fill
at every screen, at every video
with utter greed, amorphous
desire to be part of the feast.
Other fashions, other idols,
the mass, not the people, the mass
intent on being corrupted
now looks out onto the world
and transforms it, drinking its fill
at every screen, at every video
with utter greed, amorphous
desire to be part of the feast.
November 18, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Pasolini's criticism of consumerism in 1960:
Other fashions, other idols,
the mass, not the people, the mass
intent on being corrupted
now looks out onto the world
and transforms it, drinking its fill
at every screen, at every video
with utter greed, amorphous
desire to be part of the feast.
Other fashions, other idols,
the mass, not the people, the mass
intent on being corrupted
now looks out onto the world
and transforms it, drinking its fill
at every screen, at every video
with utter greed, amorphous
desire to be part of the feast.
Breaking news: the ghost of Pier Paolo Pasolini is officially haunting me here in Bologna. Caught him peering at me through detritus today walking home from the library. Honestly, it’s the most intellectual haunting I’ve ever experienced.
November 17, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Breaking news: the ghost of Pier Paolo Pasolini is officially haunting me here in Bologna. Caught him peering at me through detritus today walking home from the library. Honestly, it’s the most intellectual haunting I’ve ever experienced.
Who's ready to talk movies and books?
November 17, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Who's ready to talk movies and books?