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The Gospel According to Pasolini

Quillette 23 Dec 2025
The polymathic Italian writer, actor, and director Pier Paolo Pasolini, however, made masterpieces in both idioms ... In Pasolini’s take on the gospel, narrative devices that heighten emotion, such as suspense, are unavailable.
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‘You have to be ready to see it’: Abel Ferrara and Catherine Breillat on why ...

The Guardian 22 Dec 2025
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious film is now 50 years old, and its cavalcade of shocking cruelty and violence still leaves a stark impact on its viewers. Film-makers explain why Pasolini ‘was a saint to us’.
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What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever

The Observer 02 Nov 2025
Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered at around midnight on 2 November 1975 ... “Assassinato Pasolini,” the next morning’s papers announced, alongside photographs of the 17-year-old accused of his murder ... Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1961.
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What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism ...

The Guardian 01 Nov 2025
With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times. Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered at around midnight on 2 November 1975.
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Who killed Pasolini?

New Statesman 29 Oct 2025
On 2 November 1975 the Italian writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was found murdered in slumlands outside Rome ... All his life Pasolini had excoriated the Italian bourgeoisie ... There, on a filthy blackened beach, Pasolini will meet his end.
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