A scene from Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom." (Zebra Photofest) "120 Days of Sodom," the rapacious weave of sexual excess and debauchery penned by Marquis de Sade in the late ...

And a very happy “Salò” Day to you, my fellow feces feasters! We’re in the steaming, hot, thick of summer here at IndieWire, where we’re celebrating the 1970s for our annual decade week. Yes, it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The Criterion seal alone implies a standard of artistic merit, allowing the film to take many audiences by surprise when discovering the true nature of Pier Paolo Pasolini's last, and most astonishing ...

Queer punk filmmaker Bruce LaBruce is one of the best people to talk to about Pier Paolo Pasolini’s shocking high-art-meets-exploitation classic “Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom” because the Canadian ...

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