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White text on black background. Poster contains four separate black and white stills from the film.Poster is comprised of blocks of text including synopses of the film, reviews from critics, and general details with regard to the screening. Advertisement for a Los Angeles screening of Pier Paola Pasolini's "Salo: 120 Days of Sodom."

Asset Metadata

Title Picfair

Subject Caligari Film Enterprises (Los Angeles, Calif.) (corporate name), Foreign films (subject), Pasolini, Pier Paolo (personal name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 print : screen print, black and white (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 43 x 28 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Date Created 1978

Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance)

Publisher Los Angeles (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

Rights This work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Copyright This work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-44036

Identifier box 4 (box), P00568 (call number), one-2018001-p00568~01.tif (filename), one-c4-44036 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 44036

Unique identifier UC12349924

Legacy Identifier one-2018001-p00568~01.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.6 in × 26.0 in at 300dpi
44.7 cm × 66.2 cm at 300dpi

Transcript (If available)

Content

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EXCLUSIVE, L.A. PREMIERE ENGAGEMENT ¢ STARTS WEDNESDAY « SEPT. 20!

BANNED INITALY & FRANCE! a zs vee Sf OTHIS YEAR'S SCANDAL Al THE 1978
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PIERPAOLOPASOLINI | ei z meme Gmet-2e1 a7 Tole
| ~~ - F ie _.._ *& BUT RESET IN THOSE LAST NAZI
YEARS IN MUSSOLINI'S FINAL
STRONGHOLD OF SALO, YOUNG
TEENAGE BOYS AND GIRLS ARE |
: eed, a ante ae SUBJECTED TO TERRIFYING, SEX-
120 DAYS OF SODOM i) | [Lt ee SS a. UAL ACTS AND DISMEMBERMENT
IN THE ORIGINAL !TALIAN LANGUAGE at xX we. lot BY DEPRAVED FASCIST INTEL-
WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES pe P| ; ‘. gal LECTUALS...

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TIMES | 9:07 © 44:14 2:45 © 4:49 ; / = qt . 12:45 7PM

2:47 © 4:49 9:07 © 11:14

“‘THE ORGIES ARE ORGANIZED INTO INCREASINGLY HORRIFY-
ING DANTE-ESQUE SEGMENTS: ‘THE ROUND OF MANIAS, THE
ROUND OF THE EXCREMENTS, THE ROUND OF BLOOD.’ WITH ALL
DELIBERATE STYLE AND POMP, SET IN THE CARPETED HALL OF.
A CONFISCATED MANSION, FILLED WITH PAINTINGS BY
FEININGER, SEVERINI AND DUCHAMPS, THE BOYS AND GIRLS
ARE SYSTEMATICALLY DIVESTED OF THEIR INNOCENCE AS
THEY SERVE TO WHET THE DEGRADED APPETITES OF THEIR
MASTERS (A DUKE, A BISHOP, A BANKER AND A JUDGE). IT DOES
TAKE A STRONG STOMACH TO CONTEMPLATE THE SCATALOG-
ICAL MATERIAL. THE FILM WAS AT THE NEW YORK FILM
FESTIVAL BUT WAS REJECTED BY THE SAN FRANCISCO FILM
FESTIVAL AS BE YOND THE ENDURANCE OF MOST AUDIENCES!"’
—JUDY STONE, S.F. CHRONICLE (DAUGHTER OF I.F. STONE)

I pst chpbaislaioaes mt dba eg a < . 3 “IN TRYING TO LOOK CLEARLY, WITHOUT SELF

octal b hana hhtgee fy biden bape ee ig ] DELUSION, AT THE BLACK DEPTHS OF HIS OWN

NONE TO EQUAL ‘SALO’! ee | a , NATURE, DE SADE FORESAW WITH STARTLING

— VINCENT CANBY, NEW YORK TIMES : iM te . | ACCUMEN THE COMPLEX SEXUAL NATURE OF THE
| ee i oe ' Peel el 74 ed ogee bean)

“EFASCIST DIGNITARIES, EACH VILER | | a gs: Le Tt ee

TET ay Tyee TT toto oe & = TION IN FILMING ‘SALO’ IS NOT MIRED IN A FASH-

i, Zz a. IONABLE DESIRE TO SHOCK FOR THE SAKE OF
ING A KIDNAPPED COMPANY OF YOUNG a, 3 me BOX OFFICE SHOCK. FAR FROMIT. IN ITS NAKED

PEOPLE, ENDING WITH A REVOLTINGLY 2k e060? EO eae Ri ae al as Or Ta Tite
EXPLICIT SERIES OF TORTURINGS AND : Clin = : ULATION OF POWER, IT IS ROOTED IN THE DEEPED
oe. } ) | og AE Py scsi ae ake Tae he
erianiyeigs noe . er : : emp aS ns Peden re eae | ag WAR, FASCISM, DISILLUSION; PASOLINI’S EXPER.
| y oe po , : > Eves aaa ay ates iced e
THAT CONCEIVED AND EXECUTED THE is iF ; ied, . gin Tae SIGHTS.”’
Wel) aie ; hd a _)

—dJ. STONE, S.F. CHRONICLE
—CHARLES CHAMPLIN, L.A. TIMES

Pekan |
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FROM CAHIERS DU CINEMA’S TESTIMONIAL TO THE MURDERED PASOLINI

PASOLINI ALBERTO MORAVIA ETTORE SCOLA DACIA MARAINI

“Sex has lost its gaiety. Young ‘The press represented Pasolini’s death in a totally libelous man- “He was agreat poet... He was the voice of a vast and i/lumi- “The condition in which
people are ugly and desperate, ner by showing it simply as the death of an homosexual who was _nated conscience. He gave us a naked and unpleasant reality, Pasolini’s body was found
mean or vanquished. Sex today nothing but an homosexual, in other words, of somebody whose tearing us away from repressions which protected our con- practically proved the par-
is the satisfaction of a social death was justified. Only after a while have they realized that formism bred by an ambiguous and “‘tolerant’’ ruling class. . . ticipation of a number of
obligation and no longer a Pasolini was one of our greatest writers and filmmakers. / have always refused to believe the official ‘‘TV version’’ of people in the murder. If this
pleasure against social obliga- Pasolini was not killed by the boy named Pelosi but by a preju- the murder. Pasolini was constant'y subjected to persecution. thesis can be supported, we
tions. And | cannot even feel dice against culture and homosexuality, a prejudice which is a Personally, | consider it a political homicide in the strictest will be confronted with a
any more hate for the bour- general one in Italy. This prejudice armed Pelosi, and justified sense of the term. As a political man, Pasolini had become too political crime.”

geoisie because today, in the the murder at the very moment it took place. The boy was noth- dangerous. He talked too much. He had to be silenced.”

country | live in, everybody is ing but the executioner fed by the hate of the Italian bourgeoisie

bourgeois.’ for those who are different.”

‘Too many people have forgotten to say that the Republic of Salo (September 1 943 -January 1944) was only the last grotesque actin
SER GE DA NE Y twenty years of Italian fascism . . . Salo isn’t triumphant fascism . . . Rather, it is the place of an excess under the protection of

machine guns . os
ON SA L O: That there is nothing in common between executioners and victims, between the bourgeoisie and the people, that /s Pasolini’s
central idea...”

A CALIGARI FILM ENTERPRISE

9879 WEST PICO (CORNER OF WEST PICO BLVD. AND
: FAIRFAX AVE., IN L.A.)
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