Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only John Waters could pull off emceeing a New York Film Festival double feature of Gaspar Noé’s abrasive acid trip “Climax” and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Content Warning: this segment contains some graphic descriptions of torture, sex and violence. Artists, musicians, and filmmakers are often inspired by what they see or hear. Sometimes that thing is ...

“”SalÇ” ” is a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the ideas and writings of Marquis de Sade, which first hit the screen 32 years ago. The film is abhorrent, depraved and sublime. It takes place ...

The Marquis de Sade was rotting away in the Bastille of pre-revolutionary France when he wrote one of his first pornographic novels, 120 Days of Sodom. A mind-boggling litany of sexual perversion, the ...

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, ...

“Provocative, highly controversial…arguably [Pasolini’s] most finely wrought work. It brings together politics, sexuality, society, art, and the irredeemable inauthenticity of bourgeois life.” ...