BEFORE SCROLLING TO THE WEB PAGE BELOW ABOUT TINTO BRASS, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THESE NEWS ITEMS, WHICH ARE FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING I’VE EVER HAD TO SAY:

AMY GOODMAN:     A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months,” reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, “the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.” Disturbingly, she writes that “they may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control” as well. The force will be called the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive Consequence Management Response Force. Its acronym, CCMRF, is pronounced “sea-smurf.” These “sea-smurfs,” Cavallaro reports, have “spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle,” in a combat zone, and now will spend their 20-month “dwell time” — time troops are required to spend to “reset and regenerate after a deployment” — armed and ready to hit the U.S. streets....

FOR THE FULL STORY, CLICK HERE.

It gets worse:

NAOMI WOLF:     On October 1, 2008, President Bush deployed a brigade — which means three to four thousand warriors — somewhere in America. We do not know where they are deployed though citizens have informally reported to me having seen military vehicles and troops in Georgia and Alabama. We do know that their official mandate according to the first report is “crowd control” as well as action in the event of a mass civilian catastrophe. Initial reports described their technology “module package” as involving Tasers and rubber bullets.... The First Brigade is Bush’s force: they are not answerable to Congress or to the Governors of states: they are answerable to the Commander in Chief. In an Alternet posting, I interviewed Air Force Colonel (retired) David Antoon who noted that the troops must obey the president, even if he asks them to arrest Congress or fire on civilians or attack media outlets. If they do not obey orders, he notes, they face five years in prison.... Antoon himself calls the deployment “ominous.” Troops on our streets makes us something less than a democracy: one definition of a police state is when a leader sends his own military units into civilian streets. Meanwhile the civilian policing of citizens is becoming more brutal. Hundreds of preemptive arrests took place in St Paul, dozens of journalists were arrested.... In St. Paul, funds were sent in advance to pay off the lawsuits against police forces that were guaranteed to arise from the planned abuse of citizens. This sort of thing is happening across the country. The tactic has established a closed circle that has turned citizens’ law enforcement agencies into contractors of a state that is directing acts of increasing severity against US citizens. Now a military brigade is being deployed....

FOR THE FULL STORY, CLICK HERE.

Click here to see an interview with Naomi Wolf conducted in early October 2008.

For the past five years or so I hve been hearing rumors that Halliburton has been building (and has now finished building) 800 prisons throughout the USA, not yet functioning, but just waiting for the right crisis. I have not found reliable evidence for the specific quantity, readiness, functionality, locations, or details, but you might be interested in taking a look at page 5 of this Halliburton press release dated 26 January 2006: KBR has been awarded a contract announced by the Department of Homeland Security’s United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) component. The Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contingency contract is to support ICE facilities and has a maximum total value of $385 million over a five-year term. The contract provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the United States, or to support the rapid development of new programs.... Now, really, what are the chances of “an emergency influx of immigrants into the United States”? And what are the “new programs” that could come under “rapid development”?

FOR THE FULL PRESS RELEASE, CLICK HERE.

NOW, BACK TO THE MAIN PART OF THE WEB PAGE:

Did you happen to record Monty Python’s Flying Circus when it was shown on PBS back in the 1970s?
Do you still have the tapes?
Is there a TIME-LIFE logo at the end?
If so, please write to me. Thank you!

THE WORKS OF TINTO BRASS

Freedom and Eroticism—Continued

(a.k.a. Transgressing,
a.k.a. Cheeky, 1999–2000)

Filming again in his two favorite cities, Venice and London, Brass created this goofball comedy about a girl who, try as she might, has an impossible time of staying faithful to her boyfriend. I was on the floor laughing. I was so impressed that I invited some friends over, and they were all on the floor laughing. This film transcends silliness, and transforms bad dialogue, bad storytelling, and bad acting into a brilliant hour and a half of belly-laugh comedy. Don’t miss this!

NON-WARNING: The English dub is actually funnier than the Italian original, as the dialogue was rewritten to be even more preposterously campy.

CURIOSITIES: The lead rôle, played by Yuliya Mayarchuk, is named Carla, obviously after Brass’s wife, who co-authored the screenplay. The working title was simply T, which was to stand for both Tradire (To Cheat) and Trasgredire (To Disobey). The double-entendre release title is better.

CLIPS FROM THE WORK PRINT (WITH THE ORIGINAL SCRATCH TRACK):
http://equis.ya.com/tintobrassvid/yuliya_mayarchuk/

VISUALS:
http://www.lionpictures.it/trasgredire/1.htm

BRASS’S EXPLANATION:
http://www.tintobrass.to/ita/yuliya.html

BRASS AND MAYARCHUK INTERVIEWED:
http://www.tintobrass.com/interviste.htm

MAYARCHUK INTERVIEWED:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Cinema/8154/YuliaMayarchuk.html

The Italian Region-2 PAL DVD, which will not play on most US equipment. Option for the English-dubbed soundtrack. Nice little behind-the-scenes featurette in the supplements.	The US Region-0 NTSC DVD. Both the cut and uncut versions are available, so be careful to order the uncut version!

Preview on the Italian DVD	Actual Film Transfer on the Italian DVD
Above left: This is the correct crop for showing this particular movie at a cinema...	Above right: ...and this isn’t.
Above: The video transfers for both the preview and the movie proper were reformatted in this shot!
And the end credits actually instruct the projectionist on the correct crop: I wish all movies contained such on-screen instructions, which I think should be right up at the front, when the movie begins. Alas, I know of only four movies that have any on-screen instructions: All are in the end credits, and all four just happened to have been made by Tinto Brass.

And now, with the above in mind,
maybe you can understand why I get really very extremely horribly maniacally irritated
when a scene plays like this?

Fragments of two photos on the wall. Interesting, yes? Let’s pan over and get a better look at the one on the left.

Looks like Ernest Hemingway, doesn’t it? Is this from the Cipriani family archive?

Now whose archive did this one come from?

Ever wonder what was on those negs? Well, here you go!

Let’s take a closer look:
 

Massimo Ferrero presenta
un film di Tinto Brass

TRAsgreDIRE

© Copyright - CRC 2000

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