A film that has had quite an impact on me, Pasolini's "Salo" could be described one of the most important films about fascist totalitarianism ever conceived. I had known that Pasolini was rather eccentric, but the drastic brutality he depicted is unprecedented.
After seeing Salo, I completely understand why Pasolini was assassinated. Sad story.
They ceased production on the Criterion disk of Salo.
Quote from: mutinycoThey ceased production on the Criterion disk of Salo.
Why did they do that?
Why have certain Criterion titles been taken out of print? Will they ever be back in print?
All unavailable Criterion titles were taken out of print solely due to rights issues. Our distribution licenses expired and, despite our best efforts, we were unable to renew. Should Criterion ever recover the DVD rights to any of our out-of-print titles, we will surely re-release them.
I caught Salo uncut on TV once. Yeah, we've got a great public tv chanel but the government is currently fucking it up cause it has low ratings.
anyway, what a pervert!
What's the best way to actually see this movie? I missed it when it played the Gene Siskel Film Center here in Chicago last week....
Is there a non-Criterion DVD? Where would I be able to get it on video?
Quote from: MeshWhat's the best way to actually see this movie? I missed it when it played the Gene Siskel Film Center here in Chicago last week....
Is there a non-Criterion DVD? Where would I be able to get it on video?
Maybe Amazon.com has the VHS? I know there's a region 2 DVD, if you can play that. Local independent video stores might have a copy of the VHS for rent.
I saw his "Arabian Nights." That's got to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Quote from: MeshWhat's the best way to actually see this movie? I missed it when it played the Gene Siskel Film Center here in Chicago last week....
Is there a non-Criterion DVD? Where would I be able to get it on video?
I saw it on region 2 DVD (french).
Just download it =p e-mail or AIM me for English subtitles that match up with the movie with time cues.
I saw his Decameron at a cineclub in a small venue filled with senior citizens, and maybe it was because they all were very receptive to it but i thought it was hilarious...
Is Salo Pasolini's so called masterpiece? Cause that's what alot of people have said. I've only seen Salo and couldn't get through finishing it, cause it made me feel really uncomfortable (this was when I was 14 though and I may view it differently now, seeing as how i'm older and more mature) but recently found a subtitled vhs copy at a garage sale and snatched it up but don't really feel like finishing it. Can anyone recommend something else from him that I can watch before continuing the endurance test that is Salo?
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To answer your question though, either Salo or The Gospel According to St. Matthew
and no I couldn't figure out how to set that up the right way
Quote from: Brazoliangeand no I couldn't figure out how to set that up the right way
and u never will
Oh, he was trying to make fun of me? HAHA.
/tear
So, um, I've just heard a leak of part of the new Morrissey single, in which he name-drops Italian cinema in almost every line: "Pasolini is me," "Visconti is me/Magnani you'll never be," L'Accatone, etc. The album was recorded in Rome, and that fact is all over the songs I've heard so far. For me, as a cinephile, someone of Italian heritage, and a totally unreconstructed Morrissey fan, this is the most exciting thing since My Voyage to Italy!
I've seen his Edipo Re (Oedipus Rex), and found it to be pretty mediocre. Is there someone here who has also seen that film that can say whether or not it's a good representation of his other works, or if it's one of his weaker ones?
Quote from: matt35mm on February 05, 2006, 02:56:37 AM
I've seen his Edipo Re (Oedipus Rex), and found it to be pretty mediocre. Is there someone here who has also seen that film that can say whether or not it's a good representation of his other works, or if it's one of his weaker ones?
I haven't seen that, but I'd say you can't go wrong with
Mama Roma or
Teorema (or
La Commare Secca, Bertolucci's first film, which I believe Pasolini scripted).
Salo is still shitty and I have a hard time understanding how anyone could find any artistic merit in this piece of trash. I put it up there with films like Cannibal Holocaust and the Guinea Pig movies.
That's all.
QuotePasolini turned to filmmaking during the era of initial cinematic exploration of “wildlife” far beyond the wildest dreams of reflection hitherto, by explorers like Bresson and Antonioni. The practitioners of this art have, since then, been numerous and varied. But the distinguishing quality of such projects as The Great Beauty has remained, through the decades of our contemporary era, a close assimilation of the complex nuances of dynamics (a dilemmatic subject wonderfully apt for disclosure in movies). More specifically, the sophistication of the incisiveness at issue pertains to sensual/physical energies entailing the mobilization of that disinterestedness having exposed itself to such a wallop of death-dealing spaciousness as to render action going forward to be aptly self-effacing.
An engrossing essay/review on
Arabian Nights (https://wondersinthedark.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/pier-paolo-pasolinis-arabian-nights-the-truth-lies-in-many-dreams/)that compares its zoological uncanny to
Breaking Bad and
The Great Beauty.
The film's narrative is summarized at length but the insights to Pasolini's mechanics illuminate especially when the film's juxtaposition is at hand. Moral and sensual sublimation ebbing on and off market economy desire within
Arabian Nights' mirror-structure -- its transgressions represented as ripple & shimmer, both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ_SB_bJWmo