MFB: April 1979

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

April 1979

Vol. 46 No. 543

Battlestar Galactica

USA (TV) - 1978 - 122m - col

CIC (U)

D: Richard A. Colla
Followed by: Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979, Jun/1980), Conquest of the Earth (1980, Jun/1981).
Mono sound, with Sensurround encoding

Black Island

UK - 1978 - 57m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: Ben Bolt

Bloodbrothers

USA - 1978 - 116m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X)

D: Robert Mulligan

The Boys From Brazil

USA - 1978 - 125m - col

ITC (X)

D: Franklin J. Schaffner

California Suite

USA - 1978 - 103m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Herbert Ross

The Death Collector

(aka: Family Enforcer)

USA - 1975 - 85m - col

ITC (X)

D: Ralph De Vito

Deep Waters

UK - 1978 - 55m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: David Eady

Des petites saintes y touchent...

[see: Sex Scene]

Erotic Nightmare

Το Σύμπλεγμα

(aka: Mykonos Illusions)

Greece - 1978 - 85m - col

Cinecenta (X) (cut)

D: Stratos Markidis

Friday Foster

USA - 1975 - 90m - col

ITC (X)

D: Arthur Marks

High-Ballin’

USA/Canada - 1977 - 100m - col

ITC (A) (cut)

D: Peter Carter

Jeanne Dielman

23, Quai de Commerce

1080 Bruxelles

Belgium/France - 1975 - 201m - col

ITC

D: Chantal Akerman

Judith of Bethulia

USA - 1913 - silent - bw

Cinegate

D: D.W. Griffith

Just a Gigolo

Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo

W.Germany - 1978 - 147m - col

Tedderwick (AA)

D: David Hemmings

The Kentucky Fried Movie

USA - 1977 - 90m - col

Alpha (X) (cut)

D: John Landis

The Last Supper

La última cena

Cuba - 1976 - 113m - col

Connoisseur (AA)

D: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

The Life Story of Baal

UK - 1978 - 58m - col

BFI

D: Edward Bennett

Long Pants

USA - 1927 - silent - bw and col

First National (A)

D: Frank Capra

Love and Bullets

USA - 1978 - 103m - col

ITC (A) (cut)

D: Stuart Rosenberg

Maîtresse

France - 1976 - 112m - col

Lagoon (Banned) (cut)

D: Barbet Schroeder
Rejected by the BBFC in 1976, then passed with heavy cuts when submitted by Mainline in 1981. The uncut version was 'approved' for video in 2003.

Mean Dog Blues

USA - 1978 - 109m - col

ITC (X) (cut)

D: Mel Stuart

Movie Movie

USA - 1978 - 106m - bw and col

ITC (A)

D: Stanley Donen

No Longer Alone

USA - 1978 - 101m - col

World Wide (AA)

D: Nicholas Webster

Not a Pretty Picture

USA - 1975 - 83m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Martha Coolidge

Our Winning Season

USA - 1978 - 93m - col

ITC (AA) (cut)

D: Joseph Ruben

The Scarlet Letter

Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

W.Germany/Spain - 1972 - 89m - col

Cinegate

D: Wim Wenders

The Seventh Victim

USA - 1943 - 71m - bw

RKO Radio (A) (cut)

D: Mark Robson
Also reviewed: Feb 1944.

Sex Scene

Les petites saintes y touchent

France - 1974 - 91m - col

Cinecenta (X) (cut)

D: Michel Lemoine

Twentieth Century

USA - 1934 - 91m - bw

Columbia (A) (cut)

D: Howard Hawks
Also reviewed: Jul 1934.

Violette Nozière

France/Canada - 1977 - 122m - col

Curzon (X)

D: Claude Chabrol

The Water Babies

UK/Poland - 1978 - 92m - col

Pethurst / Productions Associates (U)

D: Lionel Jeffries