The Films of Tinto Brass

Tinto Brass (1933), whose long-life career includes 30 films, is the Italian director best known for the soft adult films he shot in the 1970s and 1980s--his most famous being Salon Kitty (1976), The Key (1983) with Stefania Sandrelli, and the notorious Caligula (1979) which film producer Bob Guccioni, founder of Penthouse, took away from Brass and cut himself. This homage to his fascinating career includes his earliest avant-garde films like Who Works is Lost (1963); the western Yankee (1966) and the giallo Deadly Sweet (1967); experimental arthouse films Attraction (1968) and The Howl (1969), including the hard-to-be-seen Dropout (1970) and Vacation (1971) with Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave to the decidedly derrière-obsessed fetishism of his later work, including Paprika (1991), All Ladies Do It (1992), The Voyeur (1994), Frivolous Lola (1998), and Cheeky! (2000).
The Films of Tinto Brass: From the Avant-Garde to Erotica is a film-by-film guide to one of the most interesting and uncompromising Italian film directors.

"For me, cinema is a dream that becomes true. What I cannot do in reality I try to do in movies. My scenes are not connected by logic, but by analogy. In this way, they proceed like poetry and dreams." -- Tinto Brass
"Pornography is there to give you an erection, erotica is there to give you emotions." -- Tinto Brass

Nico B is the founder of the legendary Amsterdam video store Cult Videoheek, and started Cult Epics in 1991. He releases arthouse, horror & erotica films, specializing in the works of directors such as Walerian Borowczyk, Tinto Brass, Fernando Arrabal, Radley Metzger, Jörg Buttgereit, Agusti Villaronga, Pim de la Parra & Wim Verstappen, Nouchka van Brakel, Marleen Gorris, Irving Klaw and pin up Bettie Page in definitive editions on DVD & Blu-ray. Cult Epics also releases beautifully illustrated hardcover books including Women of the Sun: Bunny Yeager in Mexico, and Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol. 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, Salon Kitty, Cosi fan tutte (All Ladies Do It), Paprika, Monella Frivolous Lola), and Trasgredire (Cheeky!).

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