Tinto Brass
Tinto Brass was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy on March 26th, 1933 and is the Director. At the age of 91, Tinto Brass biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Giovanni "Tinto" Brass (born 26 March 1933) is an Italian filmmaker.
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.
Personal life
Brass' nickname Tintoretto (later shortened to Tinto) was given by his grandfather Italico Brass, a renowned Gorizian painter.
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.
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.
Brass is politically affiliated with the Italian Radicals.
On 18 April 2010, he suffered an intracranial hemorrhage.
Career
Brass, a promising experimental and avant-garde filmmaker, received largely positive feedback after screening at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. For the 13th Triennale di Milano – Tempo Libero and Tempo Lavorativo, he was hired by Umberto Eco in 1964 to produce two short films experimenting with visual language. Brass produced films in many genres, including western (Yankee) and crime (Col cuore in gola), all using a very experimental editing and camera style throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Warner Bros. offered Brass the job of directing A Clockwork Orange in 1968, but it didn't happen due to scheduling conflicts. He was dubbed the "Antonion of the 1970s" in an article about the filming of Dropout from 1970. His early years have been referred to as "rebellios [sic], anarchistic, and experimental.
In 1970, L'urlo was exhibited in a film festival in Berlin. La Vacanza, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero, received the award for the best Italian film at the Venice Film Festival in 1971. Brass performed at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival in 1972.
His films, including Salon Kitty (1976) and Caligula (1979), gradually evolved into erotic films. Caligula was supposed to be a satire on power rather than a sarcastic film, but the filmmakers re-edited the film entirely without Brass's permission, cutting many political and comedic scenes, as well as sexually explicit sequences, making the film a pornographic drama. The director requested that his name be stricken from the credits, but he is only acknowledged for "Principal Photography." Despite this, the film remains his most widely circulated film (and the highest-grossing Italian film ever released in the United States). The Key (1983) and Senso '45 (2002) were two other notable works of Brass's later years. He was making films into his seventies.
Brass' films since his beginnings follow an impressionistic style, with no large landscapes to be seen, but rather sections and pieces of the scenery and peripheral characters and objects, thus imitating how the viewer might experience the events if he were present. The films also have a brisk pace. He often uses a television-like multicamera system of shooting, with at least three cameras recording at once, with each focusing on something different.
Throughout his films, there are several other directorial trademarks. Mirrors appear in the set design from Salon Kitty onwards. Often, he goes as far as to start a scene with a mirror shot and then pan over to the scene being reflected, giving the viewer a disorienting feeling. His erotic films, particularly The Key, Miranda, and All Ladies Do It, often emphasize women's full buttocks and pubic hair as well as underarm hair.
Brass' films in the 1980s and early 1990s were mostly adaptations of well-known literary works, including The Key (La chiave), The Mistress of the Inn (Miranda), Le lettere da Capri by Mario Soldati), Marco Lodoli and Silvia Bre (eponymous), Fanny Hill (Paprika), and Alberto Moravia's book Senso, while the 2002 film Senso '45 is an adaptation of Sens
Many of Brass' works can be seen as period drama set during World War II (Salon Kitty and Senso '45, set in Berlin and Asolo respectively), and 1950s Italy (Paprika and Monella).
Brasse has worked in a cameo for his friend Osiride Pevarello and himself. In 1999, he appeared as the host in the Tinto Brass presenter a Corti Circuiti Erotici compilation.