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Jennifer Lyon Bell: 'In porn, I'm looking for that authentic moment.'

'Why is showing nudity or sex in a film always such an issue?' The question was casually raised by one of the introducers on the opening night of Cinema Erotica, the programme with which EYE ushers in the summer. This ode to lust offers a broad overview of the ways in which cinematic eroticism can take shape. From early 20th-century scabrous films from the waiting rooms of a French brothel to Fassbinder's homoerotic swan song Querelle (1982) and the camp homage The Love...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

'Why is showing nudity or sex in a film always such an issue?' The question was casually raised by one of the introducers on the opening night of Cinema Erotica, the programme with which EYE ushers in the summer. This ode to lust offers a broad overview of the ways in which cinematic eroticism can take shape. From early 20th-century scabrous films from the waiting rooms of a French brothel to Fassbinder's homoerotic swan song Querelle (1982) and the camp homage The Love...

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