Abel Ferrara raised a number of eyebrows when he claimed that he knew who was responsible for the murder of director/writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, a man he just so happened to be making a film about.
As his much-anticipated biopic, Pasolini, premieres at the Venice film festival, the American film-maker reveals his debt to Italy’s film provocateur In November 1975, the Italian film-maker Pier ...
Pasolini—Abel Ferrara’s murky recreation of the last few days in the life of the iconoclastic Italian writer and filmmaker, who was murdered in 1975—is a flawed film of unvarnished integrity (Grade: B ...
Willem Dafoe is superb as the celebrated Italian director who died in mysterious circumstances in 1975, in a film that could be Ferrara’s best yet Some artists meet bloody ends, others fade and falter ...
In the early morning of November 2, 1975, in Idroscalo, a terminally dreadful shanty town in Ostia, outside Rome, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini, then 53, an intellectual powerhouse and one of the ...