'70s Week: When the controversial film arrived as part of the beloved boutique distributor's storied collection, its odd lack of availability turned it into a curiosity for film freaks of all kinds.

One night in early November 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini, the iconoclastic master of Italian neorealist cinema, was brutally murdered on a beach outside Rome. This horrifying – and to this day, unsolved ...

opus Salò, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom was one of Criterion's first DVD releases back in 1998, but the title quickly went out of print, and in the decade since, secondhand copies of Salò have sometimes ...

Abel Ferrara was once a director indelibly tied to America. Films such as King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992) and The Funeral (1996) - arguably his best works in a long career - were very ...

Salò, or the 120 days of Sodom (1975) was the last film Pier Paolo Pasolini ever made and the first Pasolini film I ever saw. I approached Salò several years ago in almost total ignorance, having read ...

”You may need psychiatric care afterwards—something, unfortunately, the New York Film Festival cannot offer tonight.” The McDonald’s bag stank up the entire car. We had originally planned on indulging ...

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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film, from 1975, is also, in a way, the ultimate film: its representation of depravity may be unsurpassable. Pasolini sets the Marquis de Sade’s “120 Days of Sodom” in ...

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom movie listings and showtimes. One list of all cinemas showing Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom ...