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,' the English-language biopic about the iconic Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, played by Willem Dafoe, has landed at Kino Lorber five years after a festival circuit run. By Etan ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom is turning 50. One of cinema’s most notorious films, Salò continues to be approached with trepidation – if approached at all. Adapted from the ...

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 ...

When people hear the name Pasolini, if they recognize it at all, it's primarily due to two references: one, his brutal murder by a male prostitute (and perhaps a criminal syndicate group) or his later ...

“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 ...

A four-film, Monday-night series of films by controversial Italian filmmaker, poet, writer and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini kicks off tonight at UC Irvine with his first film, 1961's Accatone.

Amelia Antonucci saw some of Pier Paolo Pasolini's films when she was growing up in southern Italy. They were often controversial and the X-rated Astra Theater in Salerno had an age limit, which she ...

Having made it her mission as head of the Pasolini Foundation since 1980 to keep discussion of the late poet-filmmaker alive, actress Laura Betti, who starred in five films for the director, delivers ...