Sex and nudity in European cinema
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| + | European films are famous for their erotic scenes, particularly those from [[Italy]], [[France]] and [[Germany]]. [[Pedro Almodovar]] of [[Spain]] is a prolific director who includes eroticism as a central part of many of his movies. [[Tinto Brass]], a controversial filmmaker from Italy, has dedicated his entire career of converting explicit sex into [[mainstream]] content. In Spain there was [[Jess Franco]] and Germany had its early [[Aufklärungsfilme]]. | ||
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European films are famous for their erotic scenes, particularly those from Italy, France and Germany. Pedro Almodovar of Spain is a prolific director who includes eroticism as a central part of many of his movies. Tinto Brass, a controversial filmmaker from Italy, has dedicated his entire career of converting explicit sex into mainstream content. In Spain there was Jess Franco and Germany had its early Aufklärungsfilme.
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Eurotica
During the 1960s and 1970s, European low-budget films went kinky, emerging as a new type of cinema that blended eroticism, surrealism, horror, and over-the-top atmospherics.
European trash cinema
European trash cinema is a cinematic subgenre of European cinema and trash cinema. It is also referred to as Eurosleaze.
Directors
The moniker 'Euro trash' includes but is not limited to Mario Bava, Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, Walerian Borowczyk, Tinto Brass, Radley Metzger [an American who shot many of his movies in France and who regularly imported European erotic movies in the US where he sometimes or re-edited them], Max Pecas, José Benazeraf, Jose Larraz, Claude Mulot...
Continental film review (1952 - 1983?)
First issue in 1952.
'UK-based international film magazine which purported to be a somewhat serious film journal devoted to foreign films, but which in its later years focused rather more on pruriently on the scantily-clad and often nude young actresses which peopled films of the era.'
There was also published a US-priced edition which was exactly the same as the UK-counterpart except that it was dated a month later and was priced at 35 or 50 cents rather than 1/6. --http://www.geocities.com/moviemags/continental61.html [Jan 2005]
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