Tinto Brass is known mostly in America for being the Italian director of the infamous Caligula that starred Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren and Peter O’Toole. What made it to theaters daring to show the film in 1980 wasn’t Tinto Brass’ version. Penthouse head Bob Guccione took over the film in post-production. He shot more explicit footage and did his own edit. This set back didn’t stop Tinto Brass from making films. He remained active making erotic films in Europe (and at 90 is still active in general). Cult Epics is celebrating Tinto Brass with a 4K UHD release of All Ladies Do It (1992) and a hardback release of The Films of Tinto Brass: From The Avant-Garde to Erotica. We’ll get a deeper sense of the director.
Here’s the press release from Cult Epics:
Cult Epics 2024 new releases
The Films of Tinto Brass: From the Avant-Garde to Erotica HC Book &
Cult Epics first 4K UHD Release of Tinto Brass ALL LADIES DO IT.
Los Angeles, CA (January, 2024)
TINTO BRASS: FROM THE AVANT-GARDE TO EROTICA Hardcover Book
“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
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 plus biography of one of the most interesting and uncompromising Italian film directors.
THE FILMS OF TINTO BRASS: FROM THE AVANT-GARDE TO EROTICA HC Book
Price: $69.95
Street Date: February 14, 2024
Production Year: 2024
Country: USA
Language: English
Pages: 252 Pages w/over 300 Color/B&W images
Size: 8.25 x 11 x 1 inches
Label: Cult Epics
Distributor: SCB Distributors
Blu-ray/DVD Cat.no. CEB
ISGN. 881190021095 / 881190021194
ALL LADIES DO IT 4K UHD+Blu-ray / Blu-ray
World Premiere on 4K UHD & North American Premiere on Blu-ray.
After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship with her husband through betrayal.
From the director of Caligula and Salon Kitty comes the stylish, erotic comedy drama All Ladies Do It, starring the sexy Claudia Koll. Cult Epics presents the Uncut & Uncensored Director’s Cut with new and vintage bonus features.
ALL LADIES DO IT 4K UHD+Blu-ray / Blu-ray
Price: $49.95 / $34.95
Street Date: March 26, 2024
Production Year: 1992
Country: Italy
Video run time: Approx. 97 Mins
Language: English & Italian language w/optional English subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo
Label: Cult Epics
Distributor: MVD Entertainment Group
Blu-ray/DVD Cat.no. CE214/CD215
BD/DVD UP 881190021491 / 881190021590
Rating: Not Rated
Region: Region Free
SPECIAL FEATURES
4K UHD BLU-RAY
New 4K Transfer (from original negative) & Restoration + HDR
New DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo English & Italian
New Audio Commentary by Eugenio Ercolani & Troy Howarth
Theatrical Trailers
BLU- RAY
New 4K Transfer (from original negative) & Restoration
New DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo English & Italian
New Audio Commentary by Eugenio Ercolani & Troy Howarth
Theatrical Trailers
Interview with director Tinto Brass (2001)
Outtakes All Ladies Do It
Photo Gallery
Reversible sleeve with original Italian uncensored poster art
20-page illustrated booklet w/Essay by Eugenio Ercolani and Domenico Monetti
Slipcase
4 Repro Italian Lobby Card Prints (First Pressing 4K UHD Only)
