Tinto Brass 1933 - 2026
Tinto Brass, the Fellini of Smut, has died at 93. People will talk about Caligula , or his earlier artier films - Umberto Eco commissioned two films from him in the mid -sixties - but, really, Tinto's career has been, like Russ Meyer's, a hot-breathed caricature of the male gaze. Both men were highly skilled, talented film-makers whose chief interest was photographing naked women. Both had their favourite bits: Russ, famously, was a titty man. Tinto liked arses. He also liked mirrors, peeping through windows, and frosted glass. This lent his films some interesting visuals, a lot of creative composition and distorted frames, but only added to the idea that he was some sort of cinematic Peeping Tom. His 1994 film, The Voyeur , is known in his native Italian, L'uomo che gaurda or "The man who looks". That's his entire career, right there. Tinto was a dirty little boy for 93 years. This is my 700th blog and its about Tinto Brass. Bloody hell. He expressed a ...
