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Giovanni "Tinto" Brass (born 26 March 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Today, he is mainly known for his later work in the erotic genre, with films such as Caligula, Così fan tutte (released under the English title All Ladies Do It), Paprika, Monella (Frivolous Lola) and Trasgredire.

Tinto Brass
Brass in 1990
Born	Giovanni Brass (1933-03-26) 26 March 1933 (age 89) Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Occupation	Film director and screenwriter
Years active	1963–present
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Spouse(s)	Carla Cipriani ​ ​ (m. 1957; died 2006)​ Caterina Varzi ​ (m. 2017)​
Awards	Venice Film Festival: Best Italian Film 1971. For La Vacanza. HRIFF: Award of Excellence 2012. For Brass' early works.
Website	www.tintobrass.it

Career

Avant-garde cinema

In the 1960s and 1970s, Brass was considered a promising experimental and avant-garde director, and his debut film Who Works Is Lost got very favorable reviews after screening at Venice Film Festival 1963.[1] In 1964, he was commissioned by Umberto Eco to create two short films experimenting with visual language for the 13th Triennale di Milano – Tempo Libero and Tempo Lavorativo.[2] Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Brass directed films in many genres, including western (Yankee) and crime (Col cuore in gola), all using a very experimental editing- and camera-style.[3] In 1968, Warner Bros.[4]^{[unreliable source?]} offered Brass the job of directing A Clockwork Orange, which did not happen due to scheduling conflicts.[5] In an article about the filming of Dropout from 1970, he was called the "Antonioni of the 70s".[6] His early period has been referred to as "rebellios [sic], anarchistic and experimental".[7]

L'urlo was shown in competition at Berlin Film Festival 1970.[8] La Vacanza, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero won the prize of the film critics for the best Italian film at 1971 Venice Film Festival.[9]^{[unreliable source?]} In 1972, Brass was a member of the jury at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival.[10]

Erotic cinema

After Salon Kitty (1976) and Caligula (1979), the style of his films gradually changed towards erotic films. Caligula was originally supposed to be a satire on power instead of an erotic film, but the producers changed and re-edited the film entirely without Brass's consent, removing many political and comical scenes, and shooting sexually explicit sequences, to make the film a pornographic drama. The director demanded that his name be stricken from the credits, and he is only credited for "Principal Photography".[11] Despite this, the film remains his most widely viewed work (and the highest-grossing Italian film released in the United States). Other notable works of Brass's later period include The Key (1983) and Senso '45 (2002). He was making films into his seventies.[12]

Style

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Brass' films since his early works follow an impressionistic style – they tend not to show immense landscapes, but bits and pieces of the scenery and peripheral characters and objects through pans and zooms, thus imitating how the viewer might see the events if he were actually present. This also gives the films an extraordinarily rapid pace. He often uses a television-like multicam method of shooting, with at least three cameras running at once, each focusing on something different.

There are many other directorial trademarks throughout his films. From Salon Kitty onwards, mirrors play a large part in the set design. Sometimes he even goes as far as to begin a scene with a mirror shot, then pan over to the action being reflected, giving a disorienting feeling. His erotic films – especially The Key, Miranda and All Ladies Do It – often accentuate women's ample buttocks and pubic hair as well as underarm hair.

Brass' films in the 1980s and early 1990s had mainly been adaptations of famous literary works usually in the erotic genre, namely The Key (La chiave), The Mistress of the Inn (Miranda), the novel Le lettere da Capri by Mario Soldati (Capriccio), the novel Snack Bar Budapest by Marco Lodoli and Silvia Bre (eponymous), Fanny Hill (Paprika), and the novel L'uomo che guarda by Alberto Moravia (The Voyeur), while 2002 film Senso '45 is an adaptation of Senso, previously filmed by Luchino Visconti.

Many of Brass' works qualify as period drama set during World War II (Salon Kitty and Senso '45, set in Berlin and Asolo respectively), in postbellum Italy (Miranda and Capriccio), antebellum Italy (The Key), and in 1950s Italy (Paprika and Monella).

Brass almost always works in a cameo for his friend Osiride Pevarello and himself as well. He was also featured as the presenter in the direct-to-video erotic short films compilation Tinto Brass presenta Corti Circuiti Erotici released in four volumes in 1999.

Personal life

Brass' nickname Tintoretto (later shortened to Tinto) was given by his grandfather Italico Brass, a renowned Gorizian painter.[13]

He was married to Carla Cipriani (b. 1930, nicknamed "Tinta"), from 1957 until her death in 2006. Carla was the daughter of Harry's Bar founder Giuseppe Cipriani, who managed the restaurant Locanda Cipriani on the Venetian island of Torcello and also collaborated as a screenwriter in Brass's films. The couple had a daughter, Beatrice, and a son, Bonifacio.[14]

After his wife's death, Brass began a relationship with lawyer Caterina Varzi (b. 1961) who starred in his 2009 short film Hotel Courbet. They married in 2017.[15]

Brass is politically affiliated with the Italian Radicals.[16]

On 18 April 2010, he suffered an intracranial hemorrhage.[17]

Retrospectives

In 2012, Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival did a retrospective on Brass' early 1960s and 1970s films, screening newly restored versions.[18] The restorations were done in collaboration with Alexander Tuschinski, who in recent years researched Brass' 1960s/1970s works and has been called "the foremost scholastic authority on Tinto Brass".[19]

Filmography

Year	Original title	International	Note
1963	Chi lavora è perduto	In capo al mondo
1964	Ça ira - Il fiume della rivolta	Thermidor	documentary film
1964	La mia signora	My Wife	segments: "L'uccellino", "L'automobile"
1964	Il disco volante	The Flying Saucer
1966	Yankee	—
1967	Col cuore in gola	I Am What I Am
1968	L'urlo	The Howl
1969	Nerosubianco	Attraction
1970	Dropout	Dropout
1971	La vacanza	The vacation	also Producer
1972	I Miss Sonia Henie	—	short film
1976	Salon Kitty	—
1979	Caligula	—
1980	Action	—
1983	La Chiave	The Key
1985	Miranda	The Mistress of the Inn
1987	Capriccio	Love & Passion, Capri Remembered
1988	Snack Bar Budapest	—
1991	Paprika	—
1992	Così fan tutte	All Ladies Do It
1994	L'uomo che guarda	The Voyeur
1995	Fermo posta Tinto Brass	P.O. Box Tinto Brass	also actor
1998	Monella	Frivolous Lola
2000	Trasgredire	Cheeky
2001	SCTMV (Sono come tu mi vuoi)	Know what this is about?	Short film; Producer only
2002	Senso '45	Black Angel
2003	Fallo!	Do It!, Private
2006	Monamour	—
2008	Kick the Cock	—	short film
2009	Hotel Courbet	—	short film; also Producer
2022	Chi ha ucciso Caligola	Who Killed Caligula?	pre-production

Filmography as actor

• Ultimo metrò, dir. Andrea Prandstraller (1999)
• Impotenti esistenziali, dir. Giuseppe Cirillo (2009)

References

External links

• Tinto Brass - Official Website.
• Tinto Brass at IMDb.
• Tinto Brass - Video (01:48) on YouTube.
• Tinto Brass - Video (01:22) on YouTube.

На других языках

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- [en] Tinto Brass

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[es] Tinto Brass

Giovanni Tinto Brass (Milán, 26 de marzo de 1933) es un director de cine italiano. Tras iniciarse en cine como colaborador de la Cinémathèque Française y ayudante de Joris Ivens, Alberto Cavalcanti y Roberto Rossellini, desarrolló durante los años 1960 y 1970 un estilo sumamente personal y vanguardista, que le llevaría en los años 1980 a realizar un cine directamente provocador, entre la pornografía y el esteticismo. Fascinado con el erotismo, a partir de los años 1990 abandona la mayor parte de las temáticas que había desarrollado con anterioridad, y se dedica exclusivamente a filmar numerosas obras intimistas, caracterizadas por una fotografía veloz (y plena de travellings), un montaje rápido y guiones humorísticos y desconcertantes. Fue apodado "Tintoretto" por su abuelo, por lo que decidió usar "Tinto" como nombre artístico.

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[ru] Брасс, Тинто

Ти́нто Брасс (итал. Tinto Brass, настоящее имя — Джова́нни Брасс (итал. Giovanni Brass); 26 марта 1933, Милан) — итальянский кинорежиссёр. Большинство его фильмов сняты в жанре эротического кино.

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