Release Date: Oct. 4, 2011
Price: Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The extremes of Fascism are disurbingly explored in Pasolini's 1975 Salò.
The notorious final movie from Italy’s controversial filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (La Rabbia), 1975’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has been described by critics as nauseating, shocking, depraved and pornographic, but many also consider it to be a masterpiece.
Pasolini’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s 18th century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy remains one of the poet/novelist/filmmaker’s most passionately debated works.
Presented in Italian with English subtitles, the drama-thriller focuses on four wealthy and corrupt fascist libertines who kidnap a group of teenage boys and girls and subject them to four months of extreme violence, sadism and sexual and mental torture following the fall of Mussolini’s Italy in 1944.
Criterion’s Blu-ray of the movie offers a high definition digital restoration with...
Price: Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The extremes of Fascism are disurbingly explored in Pasolini's 1975 Salò.
The notorious final movie from Italy’s controversial filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (La Rabbia), 1975’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has been described by critics as nauseating, shocking, depraved and pornographic, but many also consider it to be a masterpiece.
Pasolini’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s 18th century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy remains one of the poet/novelist/filmmaker’s most passionately debated works.
Presented in Italian with English subtitles, the drama-thriller focuses on four wealthy and corrupt fascist libertines who kidnap a group of teenage boys and girls and subject them to four months of extreme violence, sadism and sexual and mental torture following the fall of Mussolini’s Italy in 1944.
Criterion’s Blu-ray of the movie offers a high definition digital restoration with...
- 8/10/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Ruggero Deodato's (Cannibal Holocaust) Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man may have the greatest title of any film ever, and Raro Video are bringing it to Us home video for the first time July 26th along with Pier Paolo Pasolini's Anger (La Rabbia). Raro Video USA are on a hot streak, every one of their initial releases have been killers. Even those that are less than fantastic are presented in a way that is more than we'd ever have expected for films that are so little known in the Us. At this point, they are among the best labels releasing forgotten Italian gems in this country, even grabbing some titles that Criterion should envy. Here's what Raro Video has to say about their...
- 6/23/2011
- Screen Anarchy
On May 17, Italian label Raro Video will release the DVD of the highly charged 1963 documentary La Rabbia (The Rage), directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and writer/director Giovanni Guareschi.
Pasolini (c.) releases his rage in the 1963 documentary La Rabbia.
In 1962, Pasolini was invited by an Italian newsreel producer to create a feature-length film essay from his company’s library of footage. Inspired by the diverse wealth of imagery, Pasolini set out to make a movie as “a show of indignation against the unreality of the bourgeois world.” Assembling images from the Soviet bloc and various anti-colonial movements as complement and contrast to the newsreel footage, Pasolini crafted a tour de force of politically trenchant commentary on the modern world, climaxing in a moving meditation on the death of Marilyn Monroe.
Reportedly, La Rabbia’s producer feared controversy and box-office failure for the documentary, prompting him to demand...
Pasolini (c.) releases his rage in the 1963 documentary La Rabbia.
In 1962, Pasolini was invited by an Italian newsreel producer to create a feature-length film essay from his company’s library of footage. Inspired by the diverse wealth of imagery, Pasolini set out to make a movie as “a show of indignation against the unreality of the bourgeois world.” Assembling images from the Soviet bloc and various anti-colonial movements as complement and contrast to the newsreel footage, Pasolini crafted a tour de force of politically trenchant commentary on the modern world, climaxing in a moving meditation on the death of Marilyn Monroe.
Reportedly, La Rabbia’s producer feared controversy and box-office failure for the documentary, prompting him to demand...
- 3/10/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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