“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 ...

“Provocative, highly controversial…arguably [Pasolini’s] most finely wrought work. It brings together politics, sexuality, society, art, and the irredeemable inauthenticity of bourgeois life.” ...

In Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema, an attractive young stranger arrives at the home of a wealthy Italian industrialist. The guest forms sensual bonds with each family member—including the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- That Pope Francis is perceived as a radical speaks more to our times than any “Marxist” leanings of the pontiff. We live in an age built on the politics of branding and the branding ...

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 ...

Reporting from Toronto — Few filmmakers can be considered as consistently outrageous and downright dangerous as Abel Ferrara. So there is something fitting in the director of “Bad Lieutenant” making a ...

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 ...

Queer punk filmmaker Bruce LaBruce is one of the best people to talk to about Pier Paolo Pasolini’s shocking high-art-meets-exploitation classic “Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom” because the Canadian ...