MFB: June 1981

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

June 1981

Vol. 48 No. 569

All Night Long

USA - 1981 - 87m - col

CIC (AA)

D: Jean-Claude Tramont

The Bergman File

Finland - 1977 - 56m - col

Darvill

D: Jörn Donner

A Change of Seasons

USA - 1980 - 102m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Richard Lang

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

USA - 1980 - 95m - col

United Artists (A)

D: Clive Donner

Coast to Coast

USA - 1980 - 94m - col

CIC (AA)

D: Joseph Sargent

Conquest of the Earth

USA (TV) - 1980 - 99m - col

CIC (U)

D: Sidney Hayers, Sigmund Neufeld Jr., Barry Crane
Comprised of material in the TV series Galactica 1980 (1980).
Series: Battlestar Galactica (1978, Apr/1979).

The Disappearance

UK/Canada - 1977 - 102m - col

Cinegate (AA)

D: Stuart Cooper

El Salvador: Portrait of a Liberated Zone

UK - 1981 - 61m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Michael Chanan, Peter Chappell

Excalibur

USA - 1981 - 140m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: John Boorman

The Fan

USA - 1981 - 95m - col

CIC (X)

D: Edward Bianchi

Fort Apache: The Bronx

USA - 1981 - 123m - col

Rank (AA)

D: Daniel Petrie

Gregory's Girl

UK - 1980 - 91m - col

ITC (A)

D: Bill Forsyth
Followed by: Gregory's Two Girls (1999, Dec/1999).

The Howling

USA - 1980 - 91m - col

Barber (X)

D: Joe Dante
Followed by: Howling II: Stirba: Werewolf Bitch (1984), The Howling III: The Marsupials (1987), Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988), Howling V: The Rebirth (1989), Howling VI: The Freaks (1990), Howling VII: Mystery Woman (1995), The Howling: Reborn (2011).

In the Shadow of the Sun

UK - 1972 to 1980 - 51m - col

Dark Pictures

D: Derek Jarman

Invaders From Mars

USA - 1953 - 82m - col

British Lion (A)

D: William Cameron Menzies
Also reviewed: Nov 1954.

Isle of the Dead

USA - 1945 - 72m - bw

RKO Radio (X) (cut)

D: Mark Robson
Also reviewed: Jan 1956.

Katok i skripka

[see: Steamroller and the Violin, The]

Love in 3-D

Liebe in 3 Dimensionen

W.Germany - 1972 - 92m - col / Triarama 3-D

Entertainment (X) (cut)

D: Walter Boos
Rejected by the BBFC in 1974 when submitted by New Realm, then passed with cuts in 1981.
4-channel stereo

Manila

Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag

(aka: Manila - In the Claws of Light)
(aka: Manila: In the Claws of Neon)

Philippines - 1975 - 125m - col and bw

Cinegate (X)

D: Lino Brocka

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

USA - 1981 - 88m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Robert Guenette

Messalina, Messalina

(USA: Messalina: Empress of Love)

(aka: Caligula: Sins of Rome)

Italy - 1977 - 100m - col

Watchgrove (X)

D: Bruno Corbucci

My Bloody Valentine

Can - 1981 - 93m - col

CIC (X)

D: George Mihalka

Not of This Earth

USA - 1956 - 67m - bw

Associated British-Pathé (X)

D: Roger Corman
Also reviewed: Jul 1957.

Over Here

UK - 1980 - 52m - col

Concord

D: Carlo Gébler

Pas de Deux

UK - 1981 - 53m - bw

Contemporary

D: Prakash Jha

Riding High

UK - 1980 - 96m - bw

Enterprise (A)

D: Ross Cramer

Roadie

USA - 1980 - 105m - col

United Artists (A) (cut)

D: Alan Rudolph
Dolby Stereo

Rough Treatment

Bez znieczulenia

(USA: Without Anaesthesia)

Poland - 1978 - 131m - col

Artificial Eye (AA)

D: Andrzej Wajda

The Steamroller and the Violin

Каток и скрипка

USSR - 1961 - 50m - col

Darvill

D: Andrei Tarkovsky

Sunday Daughters

Vasárnapi szülök

Hungary - 1979 - 100m - col

Cinegate (AA)

D: János Rósza

To the Last Drop

Até a Última Gota

Brazil - 1980 - 70m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Sergio Rezende

Underground U.S.A.

USA - 1980 - 85m - col

Mainline

D: Eric Mitchell

Violent Streets
Thief

USA - 1981 - 123m - col
United Artists (X)
D: Michael Mann
Dolby Stereo

Wrong Way

(aka: The Hitch Hiker)

USA - 1972 - 81m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Ray Williams