(ANSA) - NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18 - Having built the scenes for many films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dante Ferretti challenged the Covid to be present, on February 17 at the Los Angeles Academy Museum, at the screening of 'Accattone', the first film of the retrospective on the friend and artist with whom he collaborated in his films, from the first, when he was still very young, 'The Gospel according to Matthew', passing through 'Medea', up to 'Salò', the last and most controversial briefly came out in the hall a few weeks after the unsolved murder of Ostia.
Ferretti has a photographic memory of that dramatic November 2, 1975: "I was with Elio Petri on the Lungotevere near Via Tomacelli, in a bar having a coffee. The TV was on and we heard that they had found him dead.
morgue and there a family lawyer asked me to go to the place to make a map, take the measurements of the place where he had been killed ", the three-time Oscar-winning set designer for 'Aviator', 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' tells ANSA: "It was a double shock to me.
Pasolini had been the first person who had given this provincial boy the chance to make movies.
The 'San Matteo', for which I was called as an assistantenographer but in reality I did all the work, was the second film of my career. "Entitled 'Carnal knowledge' and organized for the centenary of his birth on March 5, 1922 in Bologna, the retrospective of the building designed by Renzo Piano is a tricolor initiative by Cinecittà: "Pasolini had a great curiosity for the United States,
For Ferretti, the review is the starting point to evoke a partnership of over ten years, from when Luigi Scaccianoce's assistant set designer worked on the 'Gospel according to Matthew' of 1964, then 'Uccellacci e Uccellini' and 'Edipo Re'.
And then Medea, the first film signed by a set designer, up to Salò.
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