Tag Archives: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Amat Escalante’s recent film The Untamed (La región salvaje, 2016) is a harrowing and beautiful work about fear, revulsion, and sexuality. A number of characters deal with interpersonal problems revolving around a meteorite that hit earth and a dangerous, tentacled ...

Sexuality was a key element in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s body of work. While certainly not the first to explore the subject, the director chose to utilize it in a variety of ways. In his first feature, Accattone (1961), prostitution plays ...

Salò, o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò, or The 120 days Of Sodom, 1975) is necessarily associated with director Pier Paolo Pasolini. His interpretation of The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade is considered to be ...

It is quite odd to be writing this, but Donald Trump is now the President of the United States. This shouldn’t have happened for a number of reasons such as, his loss of the popular vote, confirmed Russian interference in ...

“You seduced me, God, and I let myself be seduced.” —Teorema One of Italy’s most important intellectuals, writers, and directors, Pier Paolo Pasolini brought many of his great loves to the screen throughout his career, themes like rural Italian life, ...

In 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini executed the final blow of his long career as an artist, intellectual, journalist, philosopher, poet, and filmmaker before himself being brutally murdered: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) aka Salò, or the 120 ...