January 23, 2009

Gabe And Rich Watch A Movie: Goodbye Uncle Tom

Videogum friend Rich Juzwiak, who writes the tremendous website FourFour and also blogs about Rock of Love: Tour Bus for VH1, likes some fucked up movies, and sometimes he makes me watch one. This week, we talk about Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi's film Goodbye Uncle Tom, which Wikipedia describes this way:

Addio Zio Tom is a pseudo documentary where the filmmakers go back in time and visit antebellum America, using period documents to examine, in graphic detail, the racist ideology and degrading conditions faced by Africans under slavery. Because of the use of published documents and materials from the public record, with actors playing the role of the historical figures, the film labels itself a documentary, and portrays slave life as a non-stop orgy of violence, rape and torture committed by Whites against their Black slaves.

We thought that it was particularly appropriate to deal with this complicated and bizarre movie this week, what with Martin Luther King Day and the inauguration of Barack Obama. In retrospect that might make it the most inappropriate. You will decide that for yourself! If you can even make it through the whole discussion. It is, in a word, long.

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September 5, 2008

Gabe And Rich Watch A Movie: Saló

Videogum friend Rich Juzwiak, who writes the tremendous website FourFour and also blogs about I Love Money for VH1, likes some fucked up movies, and sometimes he makes me watch one. This week, we talk about Pier Paolo Pasolini's infamous film Saló: 120 Days of Sodom, which Wikipedia describes this way:

Four men of power, the Duke (Duc de Blangis), the Bishop, the Magistrate (Curval), and the President agree to marry each others daughters as the first step in a debauched ritual. With the aid of several collaborator young men, they kidnap eighteen young men and women (nine of each sex), and take them to a palace near Marzabotto. Accompanying them are four middle-aged prostitutes, also collaborators, whose function in the debauchery will be to recount erotically arousing stories for the men of power, and who, in turn, will sadistically exploit their victims.

A warning: Saló is not really safe. For anything. So the discussion is NSFW.

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