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, ...

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 couldn’t have directed a more cinematic death. On the ...

“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 ...

Ferrara just finished shooting a biographical film -- titled "Pasolini" and starring Willem Dafoe --about the acclaimed Italian director, poet, journalist and intellectual. By Eric J. Lyman Willem ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Abel Ferrara is finally settling down at the age of 63. The “Bad Lieutenant” director — in town for screenings of his latest movie “Pasolini,” about the Italian auteur who was murdered in 1975 — told ...

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 ...

Investigators in Rome have reopened the inquiry into the murder of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini in November 1975. It follows statements about the director's death made by the man ...