In The Decameron, part of a trilogy of classic epics by Pasolini, the visionary filmmaker imagines a pre-modern world where personal freedom, sensuality, and eroticism are central to human experience, ...

Religious hypocrisy, sexuality and issues of class were recurring themes for Pasolini, who often explored them on film in mordant fashion. But in the early 1970s, immediately after his adaptation of ...

In the spring of 1970, between the African Orestiade and The Decameron, Pasolini shot a film for which he wrote a commentary in verses but never finished editing. The film was born as a typical ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Abel Ferrara discovered the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini, it was 1971 and the great subversive Italian ...