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Author:   Chefash   author profile email reply view thread post new · post reply subscribe Email: chefash@hotmail.com Date: 1998/08/21 Forums: alt.video.laserdisc view for bookmarking  ·  text only

There is nothing quite like Salo.  The viewing experince in any version  is
sickening and blistering.  Yet, the VHS version is extremely grainy and as I
recall much shorter.  I know the Criterion is uncut and uncensored, becuase
if you watch the VHS version, you really don't understand why it is the most
disturbing movie of all time.  The Criterion shows it all, in the raw
Pasolini style.  I warn you that the images in this film will haunt you.

In terms of video quality, the Criterion is good, but all copies of
Pasolini's movies tend to be grainy and "dirty" (Maybe they were made like
that).   The OOP non-criterion Pasolini discs are attrocious, expecially
Arabian Nights.  (I have seen dubbed tapes better)  So I think the Criterion
is a good as it gets.  I think the subtitles should have been redone, since
the words frequently get lost in the shot.

Even with the Criterion's rawness, the film is much more powerful if you
have read the M. Sade's book, especially the last part.  Pasolini's film
cannot replicate the methodic, tedious nature of the book, but it comes
closer to any other film in relentlessly sickening the viewer.

-Chefash


Zenero4968 wrote in message
<1998082001400300.VAA28900@ladder03.news.aol.com>...
>can someone tell me if the Criterion edition of Salo is uncut. is it longer
>than the version distributed by Water Bearer? and how is the transfer on
the
>Criterion disc? thanks.
>
>Michael

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