Pier Paolo Pasolini

"Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom," the final film by Pier Paolo Pasolini, owes its considerable notoriety not just to the unrelenting parade of degradation and torture that it serves up on-screen but also to an unfortunately resonant act of off-screen...

What Happens in Vegas Starring Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher | Directed by Tom Vaughan | 20th Century Fox | $19.99, $39.95 blu-ray Bickering but incredibly photogenic couple Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher find themselves unexpectedly married after a...

"SALÒ, OR the 120 Days of Sodom," the final film by Pier Paolo Pasolini, owes its considerable notoriety not just to the unrelenting parade of degradation and torture that it serves up on screen but also to an unfortunately resonant act of off-screen...

IN 1988, the Netherlands Opera appointed as its new head a 30-year-old Lebanese-born theater director with no background or experience in traditional opera. His passions were avant-garde music, theater and visual art. The opera world was aghast. One...

Few stories are more familiar than the one told in "The Nativity Story," a new film about the trials of Mary and Joseph, the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem and the birth of Christ. So it seems a wonder at times that director Catherine Hardwicke and...

3 stars (out of four) Few stories are more familiar than the one told in "The Nativity Story"--a new film about the trials of Mary and Joseph, the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem and the birth of Christ. So it seems a wonder at times that director...

As Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" powerfully demonstrated, lots of people are willing to spend serious money to see films with Christian subject matter. "The Nativity Story" is attempting to tap into that market by Leaving to Mel the Things That...

Tonight, the Italian composer Ennio Morricone will receive an honorary Oscar. The Internet Movie Database lists 504 films and television shows that he has scored (and two more that have been announced). Among the well over 400 features, five of those...

Nobody writes songs about January in Paris. It's cold and bleak, and the impenetrable rain clouds make 8 a.m. as dark as midnight. It's perfect weather for going to the movies, which is what I do. But I also go to the movies in Paris in April, May and...

Intimate, epochal, quietly unforgettable, "The Best of Youth" defies logic and expectation. Made for Italian television with no thought of export, it shouldn't have captivated the exclusive international film festival world, but it did. Clocking in at...

The agonies of love take poetic flight in the Mexican film "A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky, Love, Your Being Love Will Never End." The feature debut of writer and director Julián Hernández, a fine new talent and precocious aesthete — the...

To have seen Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" when it opened in the U.S. in 1961 as a graduate school dropout turned erstwhile construction worker with a love of movies and a secret desire to review them was an unforgettable, totally tantalizing...