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SALO, OR THE 100 DAYS
OF SODOM

By Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast: Paolo Bonacelli
Umberto P. Quinavalle

Italy 1975, 117 min
Italian, English subtitles

A loose adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò is perhaps the most disturbing and disgusting film ever made. It is also one of the most important, offering a blistering critique of fascism and idealism that suggests moral redemption may be nothing but a myth. Criterion presents Salò in its uncut, uncensored version.  
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By Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast: Franco Citti
Ninetto Davoli

Italy 1970, 112 min
in Italian, English subtitles
Silver Berlin Bear
A collection of eight earthly, vibrant, bawdy tales, adapted from the fourteenth-century work by Boccaccio: A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but end up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night...  
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MEDEA
By Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast: Maria Callas
Giuseppe Gentile

Italy 1970, 110 min
Italian, English subtitles

Based on the Greek classic by Euripides, Pasolini's "Medea" tells the tale of Jason, the leader of the invincible army of Argonaut, and his quest for the Golden Fleece. Meeting the priestess of the Fleece, Medea (Maria Callas), Jason falls in love with her and takes her home as she sacrifices everything to be with him, including dismembering her own brother. Years later, he spurns her for a new love, the young and beautiful Glauce. The vengeful Medea in turn places a curse on Jason.  
 
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TEOREMA
By Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast: Sylvana Mangano,
Terence Stamp

Italy 1968, 105 min
in Italian, English subtitles

In Pasolini's "Teorema." 1960s icon Terence Stamp drops into the lives of an extremely bourgeois family, and proceeds to seduce each member, including the maid. He plays both God and the Devil, we never know which. His divine and diabolical interaction with each character causes them to re-evaluate their belief systems. Just as suddenly as he appears, he leaves.  
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