Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in Bologna on March 5, 1922, and died in a violent, mysterious circumstance on the outskirts of Rome in November 1975. This year marks the centenary of the Italian poet's ...

“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 ...

Hailed as a classic of Italian Neorealism, Accattone is Pier Paolo Pasolini's first film. Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi (Franco Citti) is a young man in the Italian suburbs, eager to live without ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Accattone, Pasolini’s sub-proletarian Antichrist, has returned to life in Dinslaken. There are plenty of other ...

Vittorio, a Roman street hood - known to his mates as Accatone - falls in love with Stella when he attempts to recruit her as a prostitute. He vows to go straight, but is soon forced to commit ...

At an international conference on Pier Paolo Pasolini at Nandan II on Thursday, several Pasolini experts from Italy spoke of the director's multi-faceted genius. at an international conference on pier ...