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. Ferrara will be showing a new documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival this April called “The Projectionist,” but his films have ...

As Italy marks the centennial of Pier Paolo Pasolini's birth with a series of special events, the Academy Museum is honoring the influential film director, poet, writer and intellectual, whose 1975 ...

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 ...

Italian poet-filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last cinematic work was the intentionally controversial “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom,” released after the radical artist’s death in 1975. The next year, ...

The Italian poet, painter, polemicist, and director Pier Paolo Pasolini was born on March 5, 1922, six months before Mussolini’s March on Rome, and was murdered on November 2, 1975, three weeks before ...

Pasolini was born in Bologna in 1922, the year that Mussolini became dictator, to a military family. He spent a formative spell in his mother’s home town of Casarsa, in the remote rural region of ...

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 ...

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 ...