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Post by petrolino on Aug 21, 2023 3:13:39 GMT
I've read online that in 2010, filmmaker Tinto Brass suffered an intracranial hemorrhage. For many years now he's been in retirement, yet rumours have persisted that he's been preparing to make his final film, a cinematic epitaph if you will, in 'Who Killed Caligula?'.
At the age of 90, new reports suggest Brass may be in pre-production this year for 'Who Killed Caligula?' which seems remarkable. I hope he has one last feature film in him. I've not seen the short subject film 'Hotel Courbet' (2009) but I have seen 'Kick The Cock' (2008). His last feature was 'Monamour' (2006).
Apparently, he's also had a fire lit under him by the Cannes Film Festival who he's recently been in dispute with, but again the details here are decidedly sketchy. Brass is one of the last survivors of Italy's golden generations who operated during the "boom" and "zoom" eras, when Italy was a dominant global force in genre cinema, from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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Post by onethreetwo (he/him) on Aug 21, 2023 4:04:18 GMT
I've never seen a film of his, but I'd like to someday dive into them.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 21, 2023 4:11:15 GMT
I've never seen a film of his, but I'd like to someday dive into them.
Fascinating career he's had. He was one of the original film pioneers operating when the term "arthouse" came in to fashion in the 1960s. Having trained as a painter, he also was noted for his literary adaptations. The final third of his career has seen him establish himself as arguably Itay's greatest director of erotica ever and there's been some heavyweights. An independent filmmaker and a unique visual artist. In terms of some kind of comparison, in Spain perhaps think of Jesus Franco, or in France think of Jean Rollin.
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Post by onethreetwo (he/him) on Aug 21, 2023 4:19:00 GMT
I've never seen a film of his, but I'd like to someday dive into them.
Fascinating career he's had. He was one of the original film pioneers operating when the term "arthouse" came in to fashion in the 1960s. Having trained as a painter, he also was noted for his literary adaptations. The final third of his career has seen him establish himself as arguably Itay's greatest director of erotica ever and there's been some heavyweights. An independent filmmaker and a unique visual artist. In terms of some kind of comparison, in Spain perhaps think of Jesus Franco, or in France think of Jean Rollin.
I waited too long to get the blu ray collection that came out of some of his films. A second hand copy goes for about $100 now it seems. |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 21, 2023 4:24:15 GMT
Fascinating career he's had. He was one of the original film pioneers operating when the term "arthouse" came in to fashion in the 1960s. Having trained as a painter, he also was noted for his literary adaptations. The final third of his career has seen him establish himself as arguably Itay's greatest director of erotica ever and there's been some heavyweights. An independent filmmaker and a unique visual artist. In terms of some kind of comparison, in Spain perhaps think of Jesus Franco, or in France think of Jean Rollin.
I waited too long to get the blu ray collection that came out of some of his films. A second hand copy goes for about $100 now it seems.
Everything is so expensive now. I built a large collection of dvds in the 2000s back when the technology was new and everything was being transferred on the cheap. I just ordered some films this weekend and couldn't believe the prices, and here in U K, we have major add-ons due to the 'Brexit' movement as well as companies that now refuse to sell to the U K.
Hopefully, these things move in cycles and prices will come down again some time soon. For the U.S. market, I think the distributor Cult Epics released a number of films directed by Tinto Brass in acclaimed editions.
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Post by yggdrasil on Aug 21, 2023 8:37:27 GMT
I've never seen a film of his, but I'd like to someday dive into them.
Fascinating career he's had. He was one of the original film pioneers operating when the term "arthouse" came in to fashion in the 1960s. Having trained as a painter, he also was noted for his literary adaptations. The final third of his career has seen him establish himself as arguably Itay's greatest director of erotica ever and there's been some heavyweights. An independent filmmaker and a unique visual artist. In terms of some kind of comparison, in Spain perhaps think of Jesus Franco, or in France think of Jean Rollin.
He achieved a level of quality that Franco never did or seemingly cared about. |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 21, 2023 8:44:13 GMT
Fascinating career he's had. He was one of the original film pioneers operating when the term "arthouse" came in to fashion in the 1960s. Having trained as a painter, he also was noted for his literary adaptations. The final third of his career has seen him establish himself as arguably Itay's greatest director of erotica ever and there's been some heavyweights. An independent filmmaker and a unique visual artist. In terms of some kind of comparison, in Spain perhaps think of Jesus Franco, or in France think of Jean Rollin.
He achieved a level of quality that Franco never did or seemingly cared about.
Well, the guy made a ton of movies to be fair. Which are your least favourites (do you have any favourites)?
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Post by politicidal1 on Aug 21, 2023 12:40:26 GMT
I've never seen a film of his, but I'd like to someday dive into them. Saw Caligula. It’s a helluva deep dive. :P |
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Post by yggdrasil on Aug 21, 2023 13:16:04 GMT
He achieved a level of quality that Franco never did or seemingly cared about.
Well, the guy made a ton of movies to be fair. Which are your least favourites (do you have any favourites)?
Franco? Any of the 70's Lina Romay ones. |
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 21, 2023 15:30:14 GMT
I was about to make a joke reply about him making a sequel to Caligula. ![[smoke]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/qgeeSqOIKfyMhSQtjnNk.gif) |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 21, 2023 17:12:33 GMT
Well, the guy made a ton of movies to be fair. Which are your least favourites (do you have any favourites)?
Franco? Any of the 70's Lina Romay ones.
His 1970s work I've seen is a mixed bag but I love some of the films he made with Lina Romay. Some of his films made earlier, with Maria Rohm and Soledad Miranda for example, I'd rank among the greatest ever made, fever dreams in some cases, very much the work of an experimental composer and jazz musician which he felt informed his art.
For me, he was as great an artist as Tinto Brass, though different.
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 27, 2023 20:32:04 GMT
I'd recommend Franco's VENUS IN FURS with Maria Rohm - a Eurotrash riff on VERTIGO  |
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Post by politicidal1 on Aug 28, 2023 1:16:20 GMT
I was about to make a joke reply about him making a sequel to Caligula. There was a 'sequel' made in the eighties called Caligula... The Untold Story. Which is already false advertising because I can't imagine what the Tinto Brass movie could had possibly left out. |
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Post by petrolino on Oct 6, 2023 1:57:42 GMT
Tinto Brass has reportedly found renewed inspiration in the form of his contemporary and fellow Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani who is still directing at the age of 90 and has plans for future projects. Cavani's most recent film is 'The Order Of Time' (2023) with Claudia Gerini (who once performed for Brass on film in comedian Massimo Ceccherini's feature 'Lucignolo') which is set to be released on dvd later this year.
Back in the 1970s, Liliana Cavani's 'The Night Porter' (1974) and Tinto Brass' 'Salon Kitty' (1976) were perhaps the most notorious of films reflecting upon the atrocities of the 2nd World War. I recently saw a gem from Cavani that I'm sure Brass would surely enjoy, the Patricia Highsmith adaptation, 'Ripley's Game' (2002).
On a related note, in one of the archive interviews with Camille Keaton now made available to watch as part of the 'Camille Keaton Box Set' - which consists of Riccardo Freda's 'Tragic Ceremony' (1972), Angelo Pannacciò's 'Sex Of The Witch' (1973) finally made available in a fully restored, uncensored and extended cut, and Roberto Mauro's cult obscurity 'Madeleine' (1974) - Keaton expresses genuine regret that she couldn't collaborate with Brass on a film project having returned to America. Which role did Brass have in mind for Ms. Keaton? Perhaps, we'll never know ...
'If Only' - Queens Of The Stone Age
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