The Criterion seal alone implies a standard of artistic merit, allowing the film to take many audiences by surprise when discovering the true nature of Pier Paolo Pasolini's last, and most astonishing ...

Engraving of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) Public domain/Mary Evans From his cell in the notorious Bastille prison, the French nobleman Marquis de Sade penned what is arguably the most perverted ...

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 ...

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, had what would be one of the most coveted front-row seats in history, if tickets were sold for such things: in 1789, he was among the (seven) inmates freed ...

LONDON — The writings, etched in dark ink on a small scroll, tell the sordid story of four debauched aristocrats who lock themselves away in a castle to play out their wildest sexual fantasies, which ...

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Reception for the artist and performance by the jazz composer Brian Jackson and trio Saturday June 9: 6:00 to 8:00 – open to the public Clemens Weiss, a New York based artist who also works in Germany ...

I had passively avoided Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film (he was murdered shortly after it was made) Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) for years. I didn’t go out of my way not to see it, though a ...

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 ...