“I’m going to be frank with you,” says Willem Dafoe’s Pier Paolo Pasolini in this trailer for Abel Ferrara’s keenly anticipated biopic of the Italian director, killed under still mysterious ...

The film about the great director’s last days premieres Thursday in Venice By Chris O'Falt Before arriving at the New York and Toronto Film Festivals later this month, Abel Ferrara’s much anticipated ...

One of our most-anticipated fall festival titles will be debuting in a few days at Venice and today the first trailer has arrived. After (loosely) providing his take on Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Abel ...

"Rome is finished, my friend." Pier Paolo Pasolini is one of the most iconic filmmakers Italy has ever produced, and he also had his hands in many other arenas as a poet, novelist, journalist, ...

One of the highlights of the last few years of running FilmDrunk was having Abel Ferrara tell me “Yeah, I hear you bro,” when I interviewed him back in December. At the time the legendary Bad ...

It’s been nearly five years since Abel Ferrara’s “Pasolini,” starring Willem Dafoe as murdered Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, made its debut at the Venice and Toronto International film ...

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, which has earned a reputation as the most depraved film of all time - TCD/Prod DB/Alamy Pier Paolo Pasolini couldn’t have directed a more cinematic death. On the ...

Only John Waters could pull off emceeing a New York Film Festival double feature of Gaspar Noé’s abrasive acid trip “Climax” and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s harrowing art-meets-exploitation, anti-fascist ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom is turning 50. One of cinema’s most notorious films, Salò continues to be approached with trepidation – if approached at all. Adapted from the ...

The feel-bad movie of all time. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini updated the Marquis de Sade’s scandalous The 120 Days of Sodom from 18th century France to Fascist-era Italy, where the degradation of a ...

Writer, performer and theatremaker Dylan Tighe writes for Culture about his latest project, Pasolini's Salò Redubbed, which runs at the Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage, as part of this year's ...