MFB: August 1980

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

August 1980

Vol. 47 No. 559

Airplane!

USA - 1980 - 87m - col

CIC (A)

D: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Followed by: Airplane II: The Sequel (1982, Feb/1983).

All That Jazz

USA - 1979 - 123m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X)

D: Bob Fosse
4-channel stereo

Birth of the Beatles

UK - 1979 - 104m - col

GTO (A)

D: Richard Marquand
Dolby Stereo

'Breaker' Morant

Australia - 1979 - 107m - col

Enterprise (A)

D: Bruce Beresford

Can't Stop the Music

USA - 1980 - 124m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Nancy Walker
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Christopher Strong

USA - 1933 - 78m - bw

Radio (A) (cut)

D: Dorothy Arzner

Courage: Let's Run

Courage: Fuyons

France - 1979 - 98m - col

Curzon (AA)

D: Yves Robert

Exchange and Divide

UK - 1980 - 50m - col

BFI

D: Margaret Dickinson

Fingers

USA - 1977 - 90m - col

Gala (X)

D: James Toback

Foxes

USA - 1979 - 105m - col

United Artists (AA)

D: Adrian Lyne

George and Mildred

UK - 1980 - 93m - col

ITC (A)

D: Peter Frazer Jones

Gold of the Amazon Women

USA (TV) - 1979 - 98m - col

Harris/Films

D: Mark L. Lester

Guyana: Crime of the Century

Guyana: El crimen del siglo

(USA: Guyana: Cult of the Damned)

Mexico/Spain/Panama - 1979 - 115m - col

Barber Rose (X)

D: René Cardona Jr.

Jane Austen in Manhattan

UK/USA - 1980 - 111m - col

Contemporary (A)

D: James Ivory

Just a Little Inconvenience

USA - 1977 - 97m - col

Enterprise (U)

D: Theodore J. Flicker

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Die Ehe der Maria Braun

W.Germany - 1978 - 119m - col

Miracle (AA)

D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peppermint Soda

Diabolo menthe

France - 1977 - 101m - col

Gala (AA)

D: Diane Kurys

Santa Fe Trail

USA - 1940 - 110m - bw

Warner (A)

D: Michael Curtiz

Scarface

USA - 1932 - 95m - bw

United Artists (A)

D: Howard Hawks
Also reviewed: Apr 1938.

The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse

UK/USA/Switzerland - 1980 - 122m - col

Rank (A)

D: Andrew V. McLaglen
Dolby Stereo

The Secret Policeman's Ball

UK - 1979 - 94m - col

Tigon (AA)

D: Roger Graef
Followed by: The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982, Apr/1982), The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987, Oct/1987).

Sex With the Stars

(aka: Confessions of the Naughty Nymphos)

UK - 1980 - 92m - col

Tigon (X)

D: Anwar Kawadri

There Goes the Bride

UK - 1979 - 91m - col

Enterprise (A)

D: Terence Marcel

Urban Cowboy

USA - 1980 - 135m - col / scope

CIC (AA)

D: James Bridges

The Wobblies

USA - 1979 - 89m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer