Tema: Doble relanzamiento de Saló. Criterion y BFI

Aunque, como se sabe, ambas editoras no incorporan subtítulos en español decidí abrir un hilo para comentarlas.

Por un lado BFI reedita la pelicula en un doble lanzamiento en DVD y BluRay (el primero que sacan). Los extras son sencillamente sorprendentes...

BFI to release Salò on Blu-ray and DVD
with stunning special features

3 July 2008 – The BFI announces that its first Blu-ray title Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom will be released on 22 September. The film will also be re-issued on DVD. Both formats will contain a wealth of stunning extras.

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final and most controversial film has been banned, censored and reviled the world over since its first release in 1975. It did not receive UK certification until late 2000, when it was passed uncut.

The film’s content and imagery is extreme and it retains the power to shock, repel and distress. A brutal allegory based on the novel 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade, the film is a cinematic milestone – culturally significant, politically vital and visually stunning.

DISC ONE (DVD & Blu-ray)

· Fully Complete & Uncut, telecined from original Italian restoration negatives

· DVD: 1.85:1 (16x9 Enhanced) / PAL DVD9 / DD mono (320 kbps)

· BD: 1.856:1 (1080p, 24fps) / BD25 / PCM mono

· Original Italian language version (with optional English subtitles)

· Original English language version (with optional HoH subtitles)

· Original Italian trailer (with optional English subtitles)

· Coil - Ostia (the Death of Pasolini) The original 1987 track from Coil's celebrated second album, Horse Rotorvator, with a newly created video accompaniment, shot especially for this release, by Peter Christopherson.

DISC TWO (Standard Def PAL DVD Disc, to be included in both DVD & BD editions)

· On set footage and interviews (1974, 25m) – newly created documentary using full colour footage shot in 1974 by acclaimed film journalist and Pasolini expert Gideon Bachmann.

· Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die (1981, 58m) Philo Bregstein's classic documentary on the life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

· Fade to Black (2001, 25m) – documentary with Mark Kermode exploring the ongoing relevance and power of Pasolini's controversial masterpiece, with Bernardo Bertolucci and other leading directors.

· Ostia (1991, 25m, with optional director commentary track) – Julian Cole's short film about the last days of Pasolini, starring Derek Jarman.

Fully illustrated booklet

· Newly commissioned essay by Sam Rohdie (Italian film scholar and author on Pasolini)

· Sight & Sound article by Gideon Bachmann incorporating his on-set diary

· 1979 review of the film by Gilbert Adair

· James Ferman letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions

· Cast and credits for the film

· Pasolini biography by Italian film specialist Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

· Photographs of Pasolini at work on set

Release date: 22 September 2008

Por otro lado Criterion reedita el llamado "Santo Grial del DVD" (por su escasez) en una edición de dos discos sólo en DVD

Synopsis
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . it’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s 18th-century opus of torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist Italy remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.

Special Features

* - SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
* - New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* - "Salò": Yesterday and Today, a 33-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Nineto Davoli
* - Fade to Black, a 23-minute documentary featuring directors Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, and John Maybury, as well as scholar David Forgacs
* - The End of "Salò", a 40-minute documentary about the film’s production
* - New interviews with set designer Dante Ferretti and director and film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin
* - Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
* - Theatrical trailer
* - PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Neil Bartlett, Catherine Breillat, Naomi Greene, Sam Rohdie, Roberto Chiesi, and Gary Indiana, and excerpts from Gideon Bachmann’s on-set diary

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Film Info
1975
112 minutes
Color
1.85:1
Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Anamorphic
Italian

Respecto a las portadas; la del BFI es una verguenza!, como si no fuera suficiente tener ese pedazo de dinamita en el estante le ponen una carátula de snuff movie... Como para mostrársela a las tías de visita.



La de Criterion es por mucho, más elegante. (opinión mía en todo caso)