'Pasolini,' the English-language biopic about the iconic Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, played by Willem Dafoe, has landed at Kino Lorber five years after a festival circuit run. By Etan ...

Using film to explore Italian culture past and present, Derek Duncan provided insights on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s works. The works of controversial Italian filmmaker Pasolini are slated to be shown at ...

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.

Abel Ferrara made some of the best films of the 1980s. Fear City (1984) is a deliriously sleazy depiction of New York City in the aftermath of its bankruptcy scare. Ms 45 (1981) (aka Angel of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of cinema’s greatest provocateurs and his mysterious murder is one of film history’s great mysteries. So it only makes sense that Pasolini’s life would attract the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Never one to hold back when depicting the truth, Pier Paolo Pasolini, nearly 50 years after his death, remains a defiant and relevant artist whose films embrace human dignity, condemn authoritarianism ...