DIRECTOR · BORN 1933
Tinto Brass
- Born
- 26 March 1933, Milan, Kingdom of Italy [now Italy]
- Known for
- Paprika (1991), The Key (1983), All Ladies Do It (1992), The Voyeur (1994)
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10 Facts From Tinto Brass' Career
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Tinto Brass was regarded as a promising experimental and avant-garde director during the 1960s and 1970s. His debut film Who Works Is Lost received very favorable reviews after it screened at the Venice Film Festival in 1963.
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During the 1960s and early 1970s, Tinto Brass directed films across many genres, including the western Yankee and the crime film Col cuore in gola, all marked by a highly experimental editing and camera style.
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Warner Bros. offered Tinto Brass the job of directing A Clockwork Orange in 1968, but scheduling conflicts prevented it and Stanley Kubrick was eventually given the job.
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In 1972, Tinto Brass was a member of the Official Competition jury of the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival.
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Tinto Brass's film L'urlo was presented in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in 1970.
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La Vacanza, a film by Tinto Brass starring Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero, received the film critics' prize for best Italian film at the 1971 Venice Film Festival.
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Tinto Brass served on the jury of the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival in 1972.
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After Salon Kitty (1976) and Caligula (1979), Tinto Brass's film style gradually shifted toward erotic films.
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Tinto Brass's later notable works include The Key (1983) and Senso '45 (2002), and he continued making films into his seventies.
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In 2012, the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival held a retrospective of Tinto Brass's early 1960s and 1970s films, screening newly restored versions. The restorations were made in collaboration with Alexander Tuschinski, who in recent years has researched Brass's 1960s/1970s work and is referred to as "the foremost scholastic authority on Tinto Brass."
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