Mantua
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- "I had never heard of Tinto Brass until the late 1970s when I read an interview he gave to Gideon Bachmann in The London Times (Wednesday, 3 August 1977, p. 13). His remarks sufficiently intrigued me to begin a decades-long search, a search that for many years turned up almost nothing apart from tantalizing articles in trade papers. Since the autumn of 2000, though, thanks to friends in Italy, on-line overseas shopping, and eBay, I’ve been able to locate a fair number of Brass’s creations. I had been expecting at least a few of his earlier films to be excellent, but I wasn’t expecting them to be quite as good as they actually turned out to be. --RJBuffalo, a pseudonym of Ranjit Sandhu
This I read in the early 2000s when I discovered the site http://www.geocities.com/busterktn, a site hosted at Yahoo/Geocities, of which the author says it was "deleted without notice or explanation. They deleted all my email messages too." I believe him. Yahoo did the same to my site in 2004.
Last week, I found the same site, back online, now hosted under its own domain name, http://www.rjbuffalo.com, a pleasure for the eye and the brain.
Brass is one of Jahsonic's canonical filmmakers. Researching him today brought footage of Monamour, Marta visits a museum, I presume in Mantua and admires scatological frescoes by - again I presume by Giulio Romano in - I presume the Palazzo de Te.
- "Therefore soak yourself in mysticism, follow every intoxicating path to every impossible Beyond, be drunken with mediaevalism, occultism. Yet be sure that Nature is your home, and that from the farthest excursions you will return the more certainly to those fundamental instincts which are rooted in the zoological series at the summit of which we stand. For the whole spiritual cosmogony finally rests, not indeed on a tortoise, but on the emotional impulses of the mammal vertebrata which constitute us men. " --Havelock Ellis, introduction to Against the Grain.
Researching Dominique Mainon of the previous post brought up Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Obsession and Love Gone Wrong, which came out at Limelight Editions in 2007. An instance of thematic literary criticism studying l'amour fou and other cases of obsessive love.
Of the cover images I can only identify La dolce vita. The bottom right photo is of Barbara Steele, I'm sure, but which film?. The man behind the camera is not Peeping Tom, I think. Anyone up for identifying the other films?
