[lbo-talk] New Criterion edition of Salo out tomorrow

[B.]

This essay on Doug Ireland's typepad blog on Pasolini
& Salo was forwarded to LBO a year or two ago,
provides good background info:

http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/08/restoring_pasol.html

What does Netflix say about Howard the Duck...?

-B.

martin wrote:

"<shrug> Netflix says 'This deeply disturbing movie
updates a work by the Marquis de Sade and portrays the
fate of 18 Italian youths who are kidnapped by Nazis.
Held in a remote palace, they must endure endless
sexual and other humiliations and are then sentenced
to die. Pier Palo Pasolini directs this provocative
film ...' Provocative ? Or transgressive?"