The latest features and comment on film director Pier Paolo Pasolini
September 2022
Down the rabbit hole
What links Aubrey Plaza to Sally Rooney and The White Lotus?
On my radar
On my radar: Claire Denis’s cultural highlights
May 2022
Carlo Ancelotti: the secret ringer who patched up Pasolini and Bertolucci
The legendary Italian filmmakers had fallen out but a football match between their respective projects Salò and Novecento brought them back together
December 2021
All About Theatre About Film: Ivo van Hove’s big-screen obsessions in focus
Europe’s in-demand theatre director is also an avid cinephile. A dizzying exhibition joins the dots between his adaptations of arthouse movies – by Antonioni, Bergman, Cassavetes and others – staged with designer Jan Versweyveld
October 2021
Matera: the gorgeous Italian hill town film-makers can’t resist
Anyone from Jesus to James Bond has been seen in the Unesco heritage site now open for business after lockdown
September 2020
When art films attack: why The Painted Bird's try-hard horrors fail to land
Ryan Gilbey
From Haneke to Von Trier, the arthouse provocateur has a long, grim history. But there’s a thin line between trauma and tedium
November 2018
Situating Bertolucci in the Italian cinema canon
Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris director, dies aged 77
December 2017
'Ordeal arthouse': why do auteurs want to make audiences suffer?
Caniba, a hard-going film about a cannibal, has prompted walkouts – but highbrow film-makers who indulge in ultraviolence are often given more leeway by critics
November 2016
Pasolini’s lost boys
Pier Paolo Pasolini depicted Italian urban life in all its beauty and brutality. Does a new English language version of The Street Kids, by Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed translator, do his work justice?
January 2016
Franco Citti, Italian star of Godfather I and III, dies in Rome aged 80
Franco Citti obituary
September 2015
Pasolini review – handsome tribute to the great director
Abel Ferrara’s account of the last days of the Italian auteur, played by Willem Dafoe, is beautiful and enigmatic
Abel Ferrara: 'Pasolini's death is not some kind of fictional event'
The fearless champion of bad taste talks spirituality, improvisation and his shamanic approach to shooting a film about Pasolini’s fateful final hours
Pasolini – video review
The Guardian film show
The Guardian film show: Legend, Irrational Man and Pasolini – video reviews
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Pasolini review – monument to a murdered film-maker
March 2015
Terence Stamp: ‘I was in my prime, but when the 60s ended, I ended with it’
He was the star of some of the decade’s most memorable films – and dated some of its most beautiful women. With the reissue of 1967’s Far From the Madding Crowd, the actor talks about his friendship with Michael Caine and his topsy-turvy career
September 2014
Abel Ferrara on the death of Pasolini: 'The pursuit of truth is what matters'
First look review
Pasolini first look review – Abel Ferrara's bewitching walk on the wild side