Not Film School

Ep.43 Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (ft. Alex Williams)

Episode Summary

It's like "2 Girls One Cup" but people call it pretty and you'll like it. That's the best summary of this film I could manage. Featuring: Alex Williams Comedian and co-creator/star of The Slanted Hallway (podcast) https://open.spotify.com/show/1wOzABcC9kkxgaiOFbpjWc?si=549c57c3b30d4270 (Follow their Insta @theslantedhallway or look them up on Facebook for some stellar title-card art by Will Pottorff!) Other Resources: "Epstein: Filthy Rich" - Netflix "What Is Marxism" - Ryan Chapman (Youtube) https://youtu.be/BFEeHPYp7sg "Post War Reconstruction and the Italian Miracle" - Italian Innovators (Youtube) https://youtu.be/x-5NFTYAwnI "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Is Not One-Note" - Style Is Substance (Youtube) https://youtu.be/TQ8o4YyZMjA If you are at all interested in digging into this film, I HIGHLY recommend purchasing the "Criterion Collection" version from their website. Virtually any questions you might have after the film will be answered. Musical Suggestion: Rot TV Special Thanks! -Fesliyan Studios - Your library makes my shitty skits possible (Skit Sound effects and music) -Ryan Maguire - Intro Music - Joe Moubhij - Love of my life -Brieana Woodward - Art And especially Pier Paolo Pasolini "Hope is a horrible thing invented by political parties to keep their members in line." I wish we could have seen what you were going to make next, so your dying statement wasn't a resignation of hope. But god damn if the whole thing isn't brilliantly poetic. This podcast is recorded, edited and produced by Kyle Seeley

Episode Notes

It's like "2 Girls One Cup" but people call it pretty and you'll like it.

That's the best summary of this film I could manage.

 

Featuring:  

Alex Williams

Comedian and co-creator/star of The Slanted Hallway (podcast)

https://open.spotify.com/show/1wOzABcC9kkxgaiOFbpjWc?si=549c57c3b30d4270

(Follow their Insta @theslantedhallway or look them up on Facebook for some stellar title-card art by Will Pottorff!)

 

Other Resources:

"Epstein: Filthy Rich" - Netflix

 

"What Is Marxism" - Ryan Chapman (Youtube)

https://youtu.be/BFEeHPYp7sg

 

"Post War Reconstruction and the Italian Miracle" - Italian Innovators (Youtube)

https://youtu.be/x-5NFTYAwnI

 

"Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Is Not One-Note" - Style Is Substance (Youtube)

https://youtu.be/TQ8o4YyZMjA

 

If you are at all interested in digging into this film, I HIGHLY recommend purchasing the "Criterion Collection" version from their website. Virtually any questions you might have after the film will be answered.

 

Musical Suggestion:

Rot TV

 

Special Thanks!

-Fesliyan Studios - Your library makes my shitty skits possible (Skit Sound effects and music)

-Ryan Maguire - Intro Music

- Joe Moubhij - Love of my life

-Brieana Woodward - Art

 

And especially Pier Paolo Pasolini

"Hope is a horrible thing invented by political parties to keep their members in line."

I wish we could have seen what you were going to make next, so your dying statement wasn't a resignation of hope.

But god damn if the whole thing isn't brilliantly poetic.

 

This podcast is recorded, edited and produced by Kyle Seeley