What are the essential Salo Forum movies?

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Niccolo and Donkey
Alex
perkunos

"Wake in Fright" -this is important meditation on social class.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/lmpMoIaYR2Q

"They Live" -this is important documentary about space jews.

"The Keep" -because it has nazis and demons and good music

"Titus" -no explanation necessary

Fancy pants non-eeeengrish movies:

"The Leopard:" one of Taki's favorite movies.

Nic has mentioned "Il Conformista;" I concur. Same reason as :The Leopard."

"Viva La Meurte" is more salo than Salo is in some ways.

"Come and See," obviously

"Faust" by Jan Svankmajer (the most faustian movie for faustian civilization)



Pasolini was influenced by Italian and English horror movies. Too many good ones to name by Brava and Hammer.

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Alex
Cornelio

Valhalla Rising
Pusher
Bad Lieutenant -Ferrara
Bad Lieutenant -Herzog
Happy People: A year in the Taiga

O'Zebedee
Arruza , a documentary by Budd Boetticher, who made the well-regarded Ranown Cycle of western films with Randolph Scott, all of which are worth checking out.

Boetticher was friends with the subject of the film, Carlos Arruza, a legendary matador, and spent long years getting it made. He had also trained to be a matador as a youth, so there's a great deal of feeling in this movie. It's a cult film, especially among fans of bullfighting, and might be a little tough to watch because it's so stylized. By the time he finally got it made New Hollywood was making a big splash, and the general tone of Arruza was all wrong for the time - it disappeared quickly.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mt1Mf4tY6E0

Don't be fooled by the writing on the preview clip - the film is in English.
supplanter
Welund

Most of these movies need reviews to explain why they're essential. Get on it for pozz, and because I don't trust a bunch of poster jpegs.

supplanter
Bronze Age Pervert

Yojimbo --movie about corruption, disorder caused by subhuman strivers and excellent depiction of the relaxed, unforced manliness of Toshiro Mifune who pacifies the town