The Gene Siskel Film Center wraps up its month-long series showcasing the final four films of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) with a one-week run of 1975’s “Salo, or the 120 Days of ...

“Don’t delude yourselves… You are—with schools, television, the pacifying newspapers—you are the keepers of this horrible order based on the idea of possession and the idea of destruction… Maybe I am ...

“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 ...

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.

ROME, March 17 (UPI) -- Following the success of the "The Passion of the Christ", a Rome company has re-released Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1964 film based on St. Matthew's gospel. Like Mel Gibson's ...

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, ...