MFB: January 1981

Introduction for newcomers

Censor certificates

Glossary

Monthly Film Bulletin

January 1981

Vol. 48 No. 564

Atlantic City, USA
Atlantic City

Canada/France - 1980 - 105m - col

Enterprise (AA)

D: Louis Malle

Blue Erotica

Die Liebesvögel: Küss mich da, wo ich es mag...

W.Germany - 1979 - 84m - col

Jay Jay (X) (cut)

D: Jürgen Enz

Buffet froid

France - 1979 - 93m - col

Gala (AA)

D: Bertrand Blier

Caligula's Hot Nights

Le calde notti di Caligola

(aka: Caligula Erotica)

(aka: The Hot Nights of Caligola)

Italy - 1977 - 88m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Roberto Bianchi Montero

The Chicken Chronicles

USA - 1977 - 94m - col

Alpha (X)

D: Francis Simon

Dead to the World

USA - 1959 - 86m - bw

United Artists (A) (cut)

D: Nicholas Webster

Divine Madness

USA - 1980 - 93m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Michael Ritchie
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

The Formula

USA - 1980 - 117m - col

CIC (AA)

D: John G. Avildsen

La Habanera

(aka: Cheated By the Wind)

Germany - 1937 - 95m - bw

BFI

D: Douglas Sirk [as: Detlef Sierck]

Hawk the Slayer

UK - 1980 - 94m - col

ITC (A)

D: Terry Marcel
Dolby Stereo

Heartland

USA - 1979 - 96m - col

Contemporary (A)

D: Richard Pearce

Minettes à tout faire

[see: Secrets of a Nymphomaniac]

The Nude Bomb

USA - 1980 - 94m - col

CIC (A)

D: Clive Donner

Park Row

USA - 1952 - 82m - bw

United Artists (U)

D: Samuel Fuller
Also reviewed: Dec 1952.

Pillars of Society

Stützen der Gesellschaft

Germany - 1935 - 81m - bw

BFI

D: Douglas Sirk [as: Detlef Sierck]

Secrets of a Nymphomaniac

Extases impudiques

France - 1977 - 84m - col

Eural (X) (cut)

D: Claude Pierson [as: André Marchand]
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with heavy cuts.

Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again
Smokey and the Bandit II

USA - 1980 - 101m - col

CIC (AA)

D: Hal Needham
Series: Smokey and the Bandit (1977, Aug/1977).

Somewhere in Time

USA - 1980 - 104m - col

CIC (A)

D: Jeannot Szwarc

The Spiders

Die Spinnen

Ger - 1919/1920 - silent - 2 episodes - bw

BFI

D: Fritz Lang
Originally released in 2 episodes: The Golden Lake (Der Goldene See, 1919) and The Diamond Ship (Das Brilliantenschiff, 1920).

Stalker

Сталкер

USSR - 1979 - 161m - col

Contemporary (A)

D: Andrei Tarkovsky

These Are the Weapons

Estas são as armas

Mozambique - 1978 - 59m - bw

The Other Cinema

D: [uncredited]

Tribute

Canada/USA - 1980 - 125m - col

20th Century Fox (A)

D: Bob Clark

Used Cars

USA - 1980 - 113m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA) (cut)

D: Robert Zemeckis