I can recommend it to anyone who likes 70s-era John Waters (the sick/bizarre stuff like Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living), or Myra Breckenridge, the weird gender-bending mind-fuck of a movie that Raquel Welch and Rex Reed[!] were in.
It's tempting to say that if Waters had come from Yugoslavia (what a thought) he might have made _Sweet Movie_. Criterion released it a couple of weeks ago, I believe.
IMDB Description:
"The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard for sex, death, and revolutionary talk. The beauty queen passes from a wealthy husband whose honeymoon delight is to urinate on her, to a muscular keeper who punches her, stows her in a suitcase, and ships her to Paris, to a lip-synching rock idol with whom she has a love spasm, to an Austrian commune complete with a banquet of vomit, urine, feces, chopped dildos, and wet nurses. By then she's in a fetal position, until everyone's rescued by reminders that 'it's just a movie.'"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072235/plotsummary
In 2008 Criterion is set to reissue Pasolini's Salo as well, from what I hear. That should undercut the price-gouging vulture bootleggers out there. Amazon 3rd party sellers suck.
-B.
Doug Henwood wrote:
"Reading this made me think of Brian Dauth:
http://fleshbot.com/sex/flesh-flicks/flesh-flicks-giving-alexis-amore-some-props-291415.php>
Flesh Flicks: Giving Alexis Amore Some Props: Now when the establishing shot of a scene is a close up on a giant purple dildo/vibrator, isn't it pretty much a given that the device in question will figure prominently in the action?"