THE FILMS OF TINTO BRASS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE TO EROTICA

A film-by-film guide and biography of one of the most interesting and uncompromising Italian film directors. Italian director Tinto Brass's long career includes 30 films, but he's 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. His earliest avant-garde films include Who Works is Lost (1963); the western Yankee (1966) and Deadly Sweet (1967); experimental art house films Attraction (1968) and The Howl (1969), including the hard-to-be-seen Dropout (1970) and Vacation (1971) with Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave. And onward 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). Profusely illustrated with posters, lobby cards and behind-the-scenes on set shots.