Now Available: New Digitization of Tom Palazzolo’s Love It/Leave It

Posted September 8th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

Love It/Leave It (1973, 15 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file)

“Love It/Leave It is a raucous treatment of patriotic color, football, nudity and parades set to a refrain of ‘Love It’ and coalescing into Tom Palazzolo’s nightmare rendition of America the Awful. It sounds the theme song of this program [at the Whitney] and gives you a pretty good start on deciding to ‘Leave It.'” – Archer Winston, New York Post

“[A]s filmmaking it’s riveting.” – The New York Times

“A part of it looks like the kind of out-of-control patriotism … of Desert Storm.” – J. Hoberman