Lona pier palo pazalini was a writer, an intellectual, a playwright, an actor, a novelist and a political commentator. The hundred and 20 days of sodom is a film which is still to day banned in many countries. On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, it's worth considering the true breadth of pasalini's career.
The West’s co-ordinated financial weaponry is starting to bite, opening a new age of economic conflict; once-unthinkable oil embargoes seem now to be on the table. Taiwan is another democratic country with a big, bullying neighbour; we examine how the war has sparked introspection. And celebrating Pier Paolo Pasolini, a polymathic auteur unjustly known only for his most controversial film.
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