Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Pasolini” is not a biopic of the late Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (played here by Willem Dafoe). The complicated ...

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 ...

'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 ...

Still from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salò, or the 120 Days Of Sodom, (all images courtesy Park Circus) “I believe to give scandal is a duty, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and to refuse to be scandalized ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times Pier Paolo Pasolini was ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...