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 ...

Double portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Piazza Mattei, Rome (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) ROME — Pier Paolo Pasolini is the JFK of Italy: a figure of courage and freedom for some; for ...

There was also the painful Iranian question in the just concluded 49th edition of Arte Fiera in Bologna, anno domini 2026 (the first signed by new director Davide Ferri). It is September of 1974.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75)—poet, filmmaker and a prolific journalist with stinging opinions—was a celebrity in Italy and beyond, thanks to an acerbic pen and films that included Mamma Roma (1962) ...

Like so much of his art, the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini was open to interpretation. When his battered body, bludgeoned and crushed beneath the wheels of his car, was found near a soccer field on the ...

Abel Ferrara has come not to bury Pier Paolo Pasolini — writer, critic, activist, provocateur, communist, hedonist, out-and-proud homosexual and, last but not least, filmmaker — but to praise him. And ...

A gay, Marxist Catholic: not the most likely candidate, you'd have thought, to make arguably the greatest of all religious films – and one of the very few based on the New Testament that doesn't lapse ...

There was also the painful Iranian question in the just concluded 49th edition of Arte Fiera in Bologna, anno domini 2026 (the first signed by new director Davide Ferri). It is September of 1974.