“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 movie once banned for its shocking imagery offers some of the clearest insights into connections between oligarchy, exploitation and fascism.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, which has earned a reputation as the most depraved film of all time - TCD/Prod DB/Alamy Pier Paolo ...

The brilliance of stunt casting Willem Dafoe as the controversial Italian director backfires when he opens his mouth to speak. One suspects Pasolini himself would have approved of casting Willem Dafoe ...

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 ...

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.

A scene from Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom." (Zebra Photofest) "120 Days of Sodom," the rapacious weave of sexual excess and debauchery penned by Marquis de Sade in the late ...

Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard have collaborated once more. This time the artistic partners bring the mythical costumes—designed by Danilo Donati—in a range of Pier Paolo Pasolini films to life in ...

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, ...