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Tinto Brass
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'', '' Così fan tutte'' (released under the English title ''All Ladies Do It''), '' Paprika'', '' Monella'' (''Frivolous Lola'') and ''Trasgredire''. Career Avant-garde cinema In the 1960s and 1970s, Brass was considered a promising experimental and avant-garde director, and his debut film ''Who Works Is Lost'' got very favorable reviews after screening at Venice Film Festival 1963. In 1964, he was commissioned by Umberto Eco to create two short films experimenting with visual language for the 13th Triennale di Milano – ''Tempo Libero'' and ''Tempo Lavorativo''. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Brass directed films in many genres, including western ('' Yankee'') and crime ('' Col cuore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, health ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Col Cuore In Gola
''Col cuore in gola'' () is a 1967 ''giallo'' film directed by Tinto Brass. It is loosely based on the novel ''Il sepolcro di carta'' ( The Paper Tomb) written by Sergio Donati. The film used storyboards from cartoonist Guido Crepax. It has been released under several titles including ''Deadly Sweet'' and ''I Am What I Am''. Plot A French actor named Bernard (Jean-Louis Trintignant) comes across a beautiful young woman (Ewa Aulin) bending over the corpse of a murdered nightclub owner in London. He believes her that she is innocent of the crime, and runs off with her to protect her from a group of criminal types who are stalking her. Cast * Jean-Louis Trintignant as Bernard *Ewa Aulin as Jane *Vira Silenti as Martha * Roberto Bisacco as David *Charles Kohler as Jerome *Luigi Bellini as Jelly-Roll * David Prowse as Jelly-Roll's Partner (uncredited) *Janet Street-Porter as Salon Receptionist (uncredited) Production ''Col cuore in gola'' was adapted from the paperback novel '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senso '45
''Senso '45'' (also released internationally as ''Black Angel'') is an Italian erotic drama film written and directed by Tinto Brass, based on the novella '' Senso'' by Camillo Boito, also which inspired Luchino Visconti's 1954 film. Instead of being set during the Third Italian War of Independence, the film is set in Venice during the last months of the fascist regime. Plot Livia Mazzoni, the wife of a senior manager of MinCulPop, departs from Asolo to Venice, where she meets her lover Helmut Schultz, an officer of the SS. During her car trip, Livia remembers the sexual drift that brought her up to that point, overwhelming her in a whirlwind of erotic adventures, illicit trafficking, shady characters who move in the shadow of the disarraying fascist regime in the final months of World War II. Cast * Anna Galiena as Livia Mazzoni * Gabriel Garko as Helmut Schultz * Antonio Salines as Carlo * Franco Branciaroli as Ugo Oggiano * Loredana Cannata as Ninetta * Simona Borioni as E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Key (1983 Film)
''The Key'' ( it, La chiave) is an Italian erotic film directed by Tinto Brass. Set in Venice under the fascist regime in the early months of 1940, it recounts a tale of a voluptuous woman in her forties who is unable to respond to her husband but undergoes a belated sexual awakening with her daughter's fiancé, which enables her to please her husband at last. The film caused scandal in some quarters because it contains several explicit shots of nudity (characterised by certain critics as "gynecological") and sex scenes involving the well-known actress Stefania Sandrelli. However, the film ultimately obtained a decent level of commercial success. Plot Desperate after 20 years of marriage at his inability to arouse his beautiful but inhibited wife Teresa, retired art teacher Nino Rolfe records his love for her and his frustration in a diary that he locks in his desk, leaving the key for her to find. When she passes out after a party, he undresses her and their daughter's fiancé La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salon Kitty (film)
''Salon Kitty'' is a 1976 erotic-war-drama film directed by Tinto Brass. The film was coproduced by Italy, France and West Germany. It is based on the novel of the same name by Peter Norden, covering the real life events of the Salon Kitty operation, under which the ''Sicherheitsdienst'' took over an expensive brothel in Berlin, had the place wire tapped, and replaced all the prostitutes with trained spies, in order to gather information on various members of the Nazi party and foreign dignitaries. It is considered among the progenitors of Nazisploitation genre. In the U.S., the film was edited to lighten the political overtones for an easier marketing as a sexploitation film and released under the title ''Madam Kitty'' with an X rating. Blue Underground Video, for the uncut version, has surrendered the X rating for an unrated DVD and Blu-ray release. Plot Wallenberg (Helmut Berger), an ambitious Nazi SS commandant, devises a plan to select a special group of female infor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
22nd Berlin International Film Festival
The 22nd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 23 June to 4 July 1972. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Italian film ''I racconti di Canterbury'' directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Eleanor Perry, writer and screenwriter (United States) - Jury President * Fritz Drobilitsch-Walden, writer, journalist and critic (Austria) * Francis Cosne, writer and producer (France) * Rita Tushingham, actress (United Kingdom) * Tinto Brass, director and screenwriter (Italy) * Yukichi Shinada, film critic (Japan) * Julio Coll, director and screenwriter (Spain) * Hans Hellmut Kirst, writer (West Germany) * Herbert Oberscherningkat, journalist and producer (West Germany) Films in competition The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award: Key : Awards The following prizes were awarded by the Jury: * Golden Bear: ''I racconti di Canterbury'' by Pier Paolo Pasolini * Silver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Nero
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film '' Django'' (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes. During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including ''poliziotteschi'', ''gialli'', and Spaghetti Westerns. His best-known films include '' The Bible: In the Beginning...'' (1966), ''Camelot'' (1967), ''The Day of the Owl'' (1968), '' The Mercenary'' (1968), ''Battle of Neretva'' (1969), ''Tristana'' (1970), '' Compañeros'' (1970), ''Confessions of a Police Captain'' (1971), ''The Fifth Cord'' (1971), ''High Crime'' (1973), ''Street Law'' (1974), ''Keoma'' (1976), ''Hitch-Hike'' (1977), '' Force 10 from Navaron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Redgrave
Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and activist. Throughout her career spanning over seven decades, Redgrave has garnered numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Television Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. She has also received various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and an induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Redgrave made her acting debut on stage with the production of ' in 1958. She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespearean comedy '' As You Like It'' with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vacanza
''La vacanza'' ( Italian: ''The vacation'') is a 1971 Italian drama film by Tinto Brass. It stars Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 4 September 1971 where it was awarded the 'Best Italian Film' prize. This was followed by a theatrical release in Italy on 5 April 1972. A year earlier, Brass, Redgrave and Nero had worked together on the romantic drama, '' Dropout''. Plot Immacolata (Redgrave) is a peasant girl and mistress of the count, but when he turns his attentions back to his wife he has Immacolata committed to a mental asylum. 'La Vacanza' is her one-month experimental leave from the institution. She is rejected by her family and subsequently finds new friends in the form of gypsies and an Englishman. But their happiness is blighted by criminal actions and a fight for freedom. Tinto Brass collection. Retrieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the " Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Howl
''The Howl'' ( it, L'urlo) is a 1970 Italian comedy film directed by Tinto Brass. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Tina Aumont - Anita * Gigi Proietti - Coso * Nino Segurini - Berto Bertuccioli * Germano Longo * Giorgio Gruden - Night watchman * Osiride Pevarello - Cannibal philosopher * Attilio Corsini * Carla Cassola * Sam Dorras - Priest * Tino Scotti - Intellectual at school * Edoardo Florio Edoardo is the Italian form of the English male given name Edward. Notable people named Edoardo include: * Edoardo Agnelli (industrialist) (1892–1935), Italian industrialist * Edoardo Alfieri (1913–1998), Italian sculptor * Edoardo Amaldi (1908 ... - Diogenes References External links * 1970 films 1970 comedy films Italian comedy films 1970s Italian-language films Films directed by Tinto Brass Films scored by Fiorenzo Carpi 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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