![AROUND THE BLOC](/images/headline/7569.png) Sights, sounds, and sentiments from the thirty-four countries that made up the Europe of the time. ![](/images/postimg/around_the_bloc_01.jpg)
Above is the cover of the July 1967 issue of Continental Film Review, a magazine produced by London based Eurap Publishing, which updated readers on the latest developments in European cinema. This issue focuses on the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Greece, Italy, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Here's an interesting quote from within: An indication of Italy's mammoth production appeared in an Italian trade journal a few weeks back which listed thirty-eight films premiered in the previous few weeks, seventy-six ready to be premiered, twenty being edited, forty-four in production, twenty-one about to start shooting and thirty-one being prepared, making a total of 230 films (including, of course, co-productions).
You probably think that's an enormous number, but last year Italy released 356 films. It's amazing how much there is to see from other countries if you care to look, and that's largely what Continental Film Review was about. We have twenty-plus scans below, and other issues scattered here and there in places around the website.
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![BOUND FOR EUROPE](/images/headline/5588.png) Continental Film Review ties modern cinema up in a tidy little package. ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_01.jpg)
Above and below, the cover and assorted interior pages from Continental Film Review, with all the rare imagery and erudite commentary from the European cinema scene readers had come to expect. The cover features German actress Brigitte Skay bound with rope, and those of note inside include Anna Gaël, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, and Edwige Fenech. Skay and Gaël are featured because of their roles in the 1969 sci-fi film Zeta One, aka The Love Factor, which it happens we discussed way back in 2010. Shorter version: Barbarella it ain't. Continental Film Review had a secondary focus on non-performance visual arts. This issue looks at animation from Sweden and talks about some hot illustrators of the time, including Jan Lenica and Per Ahlin, drawing comparisons between them and famed painters like René Magritte. All of that and more in thirty-plus scans. ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_35.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_24.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_25.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_26.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_27.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_28.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_29.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_30.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_31.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_32.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_33.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bound_for_europe_34.jpg)
![ENTER CONTINENTAL](/images/headline/5247.png) For British movie lovers Continental Film Review was their ticket across the English Channel. ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_01.jpg)
Continental Film Review was first published—as far as we can discern—in November 1952. We decided on that month because we saw a copy from February 1953 numbered Vol. 1 Issue 4, and the masthead said the magazine was published the first week of every month. CFR would go on to become one of Britain's most popular film magazines, exposing English language readers to the wide variety of foreign movies being made across continental Europe. The above issue appeared this month in 1966 with cover star Maria Pia Conte, and numerous film personalities inside, including Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Bates, Rossana Podesta, Evi Marandi, and more. We have other issues we'll get around to sharing at some point. In the meantime see more here, here, here, and here. ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/enter_continental_17.jpg)
![REVIEW AND REVISE](/images/headline/1787.png) Continental Film Review was a leading voice of foreign film in Britain, as well as a leading source of cheap thrills. ![](/images/postimg/review_and_revise_01.jpg)
We’re showing you this August 1966 Continental Film Review for one reason—Raquel Welch. She appears in both the front and back of the magazine, and the latter photo was made while she was in the Canary Islands filming One Million Years B.C. That photo session featuring a blonde, windblown Welch was incredibly fruitful, at least if we’re to judge by the many different places we’ve seen frames from the shoot, including here, here, here and especially here. There had not been a sex symbol quite like Welch before, and in 1966 she had reached the apex of her allure, where she’d stay for quite a while. On the cover of the magazine are Christina Schollin and Jarl Kulle, pictured during a tender moment from the Swedish romantic comedy Änglar, finns dom? aka Love Mates. Inside you get features on the Berlin and San Sebastian film festivals, Sophia Loren, Nieves Navarro, Anita Ekberg, and more. CFR had launched in 1952, and now, fourteen years later, was one of Britain’s leading publications on foreign film. It was also a leading publication in showing nude actresses, and in fact by the 1970s was probably more noteworthy for its nudity than its journalism. The move probably undermined its credibility, but most magazines—whether fashion, film, or erotic—began showing more in the 1970s. CFR was simply following the trend, and reached its raciest level around 1973, as in the issue here. Fifteen scans below.
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![LET'S REVIEW, SHALL WE?](/images/headline/1336.png) Continental Film Review mixed serious cinema scholarship with cheesecake. ![](/images/postimg/let's_review,_shall_we_01.jpg)
We located this July 1965 copy of the British cinema magazine Continental Film Review, and found two good reasons to post it—the great Sylva Koscina cover shot, and the adverts for London’s x-rated Compton Theater, at bottom. In between you get Ugo Tognozzi, Rossana Podesta, Luciana Gilli and more. CFR was actually one of the most serious and informed film magazines of its era, but instead of sharing scans of pages and pages of text, we posted the photos. However, in this issue are articles on the San Sebastian and Berlin film festivals, Canadian and Québécois cinema, and near-scholarly treatments on Italian neorealist director Vittorio De Sica, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s award winning biblical film The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Doesn't that all sound great? See a CFR with Christina Lindberg here, and Laura Gemser here.
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![WINKIN' CONTINENTAL](/images/headline/267.png) Was it journalism, pornography, or both? ![](/images/postimg/winkin_continental_01.jpg)
Here’s one of our favorite old magazines, the great Continental Film Review, with a cover shot of one our favorite vintage actresses, Christina Lindberg, who you may remember from our post about Sex & Fury a while back. CFR was published in Britain and, like other magazines of its ilk, such as France’s Cine-Revue, purposely blurred the line between journalism and smut by publishing sober reviews and features, while not-so-incidentally showing acres of skin. Their wry, we’re-not-really-porn approach was a roaring success across four decades, from 1952 until 1983. We have some racy interior pages below, featuring more Lindberg, as well as Marion Forster, Gabriela Grimaldi, Veronique Vendell and others. And at bottom, in the final panel, we've located the orginal image upon which CFR based their cover image. Enjoy.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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