Willem Dafoe plays the murdered gay poet whose loss still reverberates through Italian intellectual life in Abel Ferrara's anti-conventional portrait By David Rooney Chief Film Critic “Narrative art, ...

“Don’t delude yourselves… You are—with schools, television, the pacifying newspapers—you are the keepers of this horrible order based on the idea of possession and the idea of destruction… Maybe I am ...

“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 ...

The director was misquoted in an earlier statement claiming that he knew who killed the subject of his new film By Ariston Anderson Pasolini Willem Dafoe - H 2014 The very first question at a press ...

Packing a voice that’s sounds like a New York accent filtered through gravel and a filmmaking resume comprised exclusively of uncompromising darkness, Abel Ferrara is a pretty intimidating provocateur ...

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 ...

Abel Ferrara has come not to bury Pier Paolo Pasolini — writer, critic, activist, provocateur, communist, hedonist, out-and-proud homosexual and, last but not least, filmmaker — but to praise him. And ...

Abel Ferrara on the real-life mystery at the heart of his new film about the final days of the Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini, in 1968 Credit: Photo: Carlo Bavagnoli/The ...

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 ...