Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious film is now 50 years old, and its cavalcade of shocking cruelty and violence still leaves a stark impact on its viewers. Film-makers explain why Pasolini ‘was a saint t ...
“Pasolini” is not a biopic of the late Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (played here by Willem Dafoe). The complicated director of “The Gospel According to St. Matthew,” “Teorema” and “Salo, or ...
Willem Dafoe plays the murdered gay poet whose loss still reverberates through Italian intellectual life in Abel Ferrara's anti-conventional portrait By David Rooney Chief Film Critic “Narrative art, ...
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian, 1922–1975), one of 20th-century Europe’s leading intellectuals, known for his prolific work as a poet, writer, and film director as well as for his criticisms of ...
The director was misquoted in an earlier statement claiming that he knew who killed the subject of his new film By Ariston Anderson Pasolini Willem Dafoe - H 2014 The very first question at a press ...
“Don’t delude yourselves… You are—with schools, television, the pacifying newspapers—you are the keepers of this horrible order based on the idea of possession and the idea of destruction… Maybe I am ...
When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By A.O. Scott In the autumn of 1975, at the Rome apartment he shares with his mother ...
No important filmmaker has managed both to attract and repel audiences with the vigor that Pier Paolo Pasolini did. This year marks the centenary of the Italian writer and director’s birth, but ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Leggi la versione di questa storia in italiano. His heart exploded on the night of November 2 1975. His pleas ...
Packing a voice that’s sounds like a New York accent filtered through gravel and a filmmaking resume comprised exclusively of uncompromising darkness, Abel Ferrara is a pretty intimidating provocateur ...
The second-to-last interview that Pier Paolo Pasolini gave before he was murdered in 1975 (a case that still remains mysterious) and that was long believed lost has turned up. Eric Loret and Robert ...