Salo

by Gary Indiana

Published 1 July 2000
Beneath the extreme, taboo-breaking surface of "Salo" (a controversial and scandalous film made in 1975), Gary Indiana argues that there's a deeply penetrating account of human behaviour which resonates as an account of fascism and as a picture of the corporate world we live in. "Salo" was Pier Pasolini's...Read more

"Viridiana"

by Gary Indiana

Published 10 November 2004
Viridiana (1961) is the brilliant transitional film that came between Luis Bunuel's Mexican period and his later European masterpieces. The film introduces a theme that would haunt Bunuel's later films: the abject desire of an older man (Don Jaime, played by Fernando Rey) for a young, pure, beautiful woman...Read more