MFB: April 1981

Introduction for newcomers

My Bloody Valentine: Jun 1981

Monthly Film Bulletin

April 1981

Vol. 48 No. 567

The Competition

USA - 1980 - 126m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Joel Oliansky
Dolby Stereo

Crazy Mama

USA - 1975 - 80m - col

Barber (AA)

D: Jonathan Demme

Don't Go in the House

USA - 1979 - 82m - col

GTO (X) (cut)

D: Joseph Ellison

El Salvador: The People Will Win

El Salvador: El pueblo vencerá

El Salvador - 1980 - 80m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Diego de la Texera

The Funhouse

USA - 1981 - 96m - col / scope

CIC (X)

D: Tobe Hooper
Dolby Stereo

Gates of Heaven

USA - 1978 - 85m - col

Cinegate

D: Errol Morris

The Great Santini

USA - 1979 - 115m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Lewis John Carlino

Herbie Goes Bananas

USA - 1980 - 93m - col

Walt Disney (U)

D: Vincent McEveety
Series: The Love Bug (1968, Jun/1969).

The Idolmaker

USA - 1980 - 119m - col

United Artists (A) (cut)

D: Taylor Hackford
Dolby Stereo

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

USA - 1981 - 88m - col

CIC (A)

D: Joel Schumacher

Inside Moves

USA - 1980 - 113m - col

Barber (AA)

D: Richard Donner

I Want to Be a Woman

Cambio de sexo

(aka: Forbidden Love)

Spain - 1976 - 108m - col

Kruger Leisure (X)

D: Vicente Aranda

Joe Albany... A Jazz Life

USA - 1980 - 57m - col

Cinegate

D: Carole Langer

The Kidnapping of the President

Canada - 1979 - 113m - col

Bordeaux (X)

D: George Mendeluk

Loophole

(aka: Break In)

UK - 1980 - 105m - col

Brent Walker (A)

D: John Quested

Lucky Devils

USA - 1933 - 63m - bw

Kingston (U)

D: Ralph Ince

Melvin and Howard

USA - 1980 - 95m - col

CIC (AA)

D: Jonathan Demme

Middle Age Crazy

(aka: Prime 40)

Canada - 1980 - 91m - col

Barber (AA)

D: John Trent

Model

USA - 1980 - 125m - bw

Cinegate

D: Frederick Wiseman

The Monster

USA - 1925 - silent - bw

Harris/Films (A)

D: Roland West

Motel Hell

USA - 1980 - 106m - col

United Artists (X) (cut)

D: Kevin Connor
Dolby Stereo

Nightmare Honeymoon

USA - 1972 - 88m - col

Harris/Films (X)

D: Elliot Silverstein
Rejected by the BBFC in 1972 when submitted by MGM-EMI, then passed uncut in 1981.

No Nukes

USA - 1980 - 103m - col

Mainline (A)

D: Julian Schlossberg, Danny Goldberg, Anthony Potenza, Haskell Wexler, Barbara Kopple
Dolby Stereo

Penitentiary

USA - 1979 - 99m - col

Eagle (X)

D: Jamaa Fanaka
Followed by: Penitentiary II (1982), Penitentiary III (1987).

Phobia

Canada - 1980 - 90m - col

Barber (X)

D: John Huston

Repeater

UK - 1979 - 74m - col

BFI

D: Christopher Monger

Scanners

Canada - 1980 - 103m - col

New Realm (X)

D: David Cronenberg
Followed by: Scanners II: The New Order (1990), Scanners 3: The Takeover (1991).

Stir Crazy

USA - 1980 - 111m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Sidney Poitier

The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums

残菊物語

Japan - 1939 - 143m - bw

Cinegate (U)

D: Kenji Mizoguchi

Superman II

USA/UK - 1980 - 127m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Richard Lester
35mm and 70mm release prints.
Series: Superman (1978, Feb/1979).
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo (MegaSound encoding)

When You Comin Back, Red Ryder

USA - 1979 - 118m - col

Barber (A)

D: Milton Katselas

Zangoku monogatari

[see: Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The]