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 ...

"The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality." --Pier Paolo Pasolini A brilliant artist who was at the center of the intellectual life of postwar Europe, the influential Italian director Pier ...

One hundred and one is a bit of a mythic age. Having broken the barrier of a century, one becomes a storyteller of deep time. To celebrate the 101st birthday of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, ...

LONDON — American director Abel Ferrara’s newest film documents the final 24 hours of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s life in an intelligent way, without rhetoric or prudery. Ferrara’s look at the writer’s last ...

When people hear the name Pasolini, if they recognize it at all, it's primarily due to two references: one, his brutal murder by a male prostitute (and perhaps a criminal syndicate group) or his later ...

Still from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salò, or the 120 Days Of Sodom, (all images courtesy Park Circus) “I believe to give scandal is a duty, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and to refuse to be scandalized ...

The 1964 documentary Comizi D'Amore (Love Meetings) finds filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini sounding out the Italian public on questions of contemporary mores. At an artist's studio in Florence, he asks, ...

The first years of Pier Paolo Pasolini in Rome, 1951-1954. His experience as a teacher in a school of a roman suburb, "la borgata", where he founded the characters and situations of his novels: ...

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 ...

Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard have collaborated once more. This time the artistic partners bring the mythical costumes—designed by Danilo Donati—in a range of Pier Paolo Pasolini films to life in ...