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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

"I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists." This quote by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) sums up his iconoclastic career ...

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 ...