Film
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- "Film is a genuine art. It is genuine in that it is strictly popular. Like all the arts its apppeal is based on a few primitive, and therefore universal, instincts and mechanisms in man. Sex and combat are the chief instincts. --after Terry Ramsaye (1926).
- "Voyeurism is not just one of the primary tools of cinema, but of written fiction too."
- "The Kino is a vulgar modern entertainment and I doubt if it can tell us anything serious about the modern condition." --Sigmund Freud
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- American cinema
- European cinema
- List of films from Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
- Exploitation film
- Giallo
- Sex in film
- Porn chic
- Violence in film
- Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984
Regular Jess Franco collaborators
Howard Vernon - Jack Taylor - Lina Romay - Soledad Miranda - Britt Nichols - Maria Rohm - Alice Arno - Janine Reynaud - Monica Swinn - Pamela Stanford - Luis Barboo - Katja Bienart
Literary references in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The film's title is taken from a poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope. Nietzsche: "Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders." Mary Svevo's name may be a reference to Italo Svevo, whose Confessions of Zeno is about a man who is trying to explain himself to his psychiatrist by revisiting his memories.
Pavel Klushantsev
Pavel Klushantsev was a Russian film director (25 February 1910 St. Petersburg, Russia - 1999). His 1962 feature Planeta Bur was edited and expanded by Roger Corman for American distribution as Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) by Curtis Harrington and as Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet (1966) by Peter Bogdanovich. It are the original scenes which draw the most acclaim. See also: Cinema of Russia and science fiction cinema.
On film distribution
Just as Roger Corman did with Russian science-fiction imports, Radley Metzger acquired his erotic blend of films in Europe, dubbing, marketing and distributing them but also expanding (adding extra footage) or shortening them where needed for the American market. Among the filmmakers he introduced to American audiences were José Bénazéraf, Max Pécas and Mac Ahlberg.
And even before that, there was Kroger Babb, who adapted the Swedish films of Ingmar Bergman for American audiences.
Another example is What's Up, Tiger Lily?, a 1966 comedy by Woody Allen which utilized clips from Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi, a Japanese spy film.
A comparison of Roger Corman and Jess Franco
In many ways Roger Corman is to American cinema what Jess Franco is to European cinema. They both directed low budget, B-movie style films that attracted minority cultures in the United States and Europe respectively.
Sexuality in film
Mainstream films about pornographic films
See also: List of porn stars who appeared in mainstream films, List of mainstream films with unsimulated sex
