“Provocative, highly controversial…arguably [Pasolini’s] most finely wrought work. It brings together politics, sexuality, society, art, and the irredeemable inauthenticity of bourgeois life.” ...

No important filmmaker has managed both to attract and repel audiences with the vigor that Pier Paolo Pasolini did. This year marks the centenary of the Italian writer and director’s birth, but ...

“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 ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini in front of a biblical scene during the filming of La Ricotta, 1962. (Photo by Keystone / Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In the immediate aftermath of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s murder ...

Following Ingmar Bergman, Agnès Varda, Bruce Lee, Federico Fellini, Godzilla, and Wong Kar Wai, the next major box set collection coming from the Criterion Collection has been announced. Arriving this ...

"Want to go for a spin?" the poet and maestro of Italian cinema asked the rent boy, according to the latter's confession to the police. "Come ride with me, and I'll give you a present." So began the ...

As Italy marks the centennial of Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s birth with a series of special events, the Academy Museum is honoring the influential film director, poet, writer and intellectual, whose 1975 ...