Can anyone suggest me best movies from the director -Tinto Brass.
Thanking you in advance.
Tinto Brass's Best
Re: Tinto Brass's Best
All silly, pretentious, preposterous, teasing, bloated, "artsy-fartsy" between XX and hc.
But in my view, the best is THE KEY (LA CHIAVE) (1983) only for Stefania Sandrelli.
Russ Meyer did it better, years before Brass came along...
But in my view, the best is THE KEY (LA CHIAVE) (1983) only for Stefania Sandrelli.
Russ Meyer did it better, years before Brass came along...
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Re: Tinto Brass's Best
I won't be as cruel as Len801 on good ol' Tinto but it's true that he excessively plays to clich?s and sexual superficiality. However, I won't categorise his approach as "artsy-fartsy". This one better identifies some like Jos? B?naz?raf and can at times prove to incarnate some very good stuff.
Nevertheless, I'd humbly recommend L'uomo che guarda (The Voyeur) (1983).
Nevertheless, I'd humbly recommend L'uomo che guarda (The Voyeur) (1983).
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Ooops! I mean 1994. No, it's not senility.
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Re: Tinto Brass's Best
Len801 wrote:
> All silly, pretentious, preposterous, teasing, bloated,
> "artsy-fartsy" between XX and hc.
I quite like his movies, though I would not necessarily reject the above description, except for "artsy-fartsy": Brass's films are more European bourgeois than arthouse... What I like about his style is that he goes for unfiltered eroticism as his primary objective, i.e. he does not sell arthouse films with sex, instead he sells sex films by making them look more sophisticated.
For pretentious arthouse erotica go for Zulawski and Borowczyk.
> But in my view, the best is THE KEY (LA CHIAVE) (1983) only for
> Stefania Sandrelli.
A good one, but I also favour The Voyeur.
> Russ Meyer did it better, years before Brass came along...
That's apples and oranges. Meyer's style is very frantic, and he's much more comfortable with a working class setting. And he also likes his sex with a hefty dose of violence, a combination I never liked and which is quite common in American erotic movies.
> All silly, pretentious, preposterous, teasing, bloated,
> "artsy-fartsy" between XX and hc.
I quite like his movies, though I would not necessarily reject the above description, except for "artsy-fartsy": Brass's films are more European bourgeois than arthouse... What I like about his style is that he goes for unfiltered eroticism as his primary objective, i.e. he does not sell arthouse films with sex, instead he sells sex films by making them look more sophisticated.
For pretentious arthouse erotica go for Zulawski and Borowczyk.
> But in my view, the best is THE KEY (LA CHIAVE) (1983) only for
> Stefania Sandrelli.
A good one, but I also favour The Voyeur.
> Russ Meyer did it better, years before Brass came along...
That's apples and oranges. Meyer's style is very frantic, and he's much more comfortable with a working class setting. And he also likes his sex with a hefty dose of violence, a combination I never liked and which is quite common in American erotic movies.
Re: Tinto Brass's Best
Russ Meyer was at least down to earth, and his films peopled with characters that at least were of the ordinary (though odd) working type. Brass and others opt(ed) for the more bourgeois look and sentimentality. That's why it's difficult for me to relate to. It's like those erotic "art" films of the late 1960's and early 1970's that one would sneak into cinema theaters to see, but no one admited to actually seeing. I think those days are long gone now, but Brass persists in still churning them out.
Ironically, Brass says he hates all forms of censorship and supposedly his films address those concerns, but does not go to full hc. Whereas Meyer never had any pretentions of making hc movies. He said many times that full blown hc did not interest him in the least, but he too was undone by the the wave of the porn chic of the early 1970's. He tried to go more mainstream working for 20th Fox, but it did not work, and he soon became just a historical figure. Brass has continued in that vein (with bourgeouis characters and artsy look) trying to push the envelope. Yes, we may be interested in his movies (on DVD, cable, etc), but I wonder whether many of you will be that interested to pay 10-12 Euros to go watch his recent "opuses" in a cinema theater.
Ironically, Brass says he hates all forms of censorship and supposedly his films address those concerns, but does not go to full hc. Whereas Meyer never had any pretentions of making hc movies. He said many times that full blown hc did not interest him in the least, but he too was undone by the the wave of the porn chic of the early 1970's. He tried to go more mainstream working for 20th Fox, but it did not work, and he soon became just a historical figure. Brass has continued in that vein (with bourgeouis characters and artsy look) trying to push the envelope. Yes, we may be interested in his movies (on DVD, cable, etc), but I wonder whether many of you will be that interested to pay 10-12 Euros to go watch his recent "opuses" in a cinema theater.