MFB: October 1980

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

October 1980

Vol. 47 No. 561

Best Boy

USA - 1979 - 111m - col

Essential Cinema

D: Ira Wohl

The Blues Brothers

USA - 1980 - 133m - col

CIC (AA)

D: John Landis
Followed by: Blues Brothers 2000 (1997, Jul/1998).
Dolby Stereo

The Chain Reaction

(aka: Nuclear Run)

Australia - 1980 - 92m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Ian Barry

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

USA - 1977 - 135m/132m - col / scope

Columbia-Warner (A)

D: Steven Spielberg
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo
Also reviewed: Apr 1978.

The Consequence

Die Konsequenz

W.Germany - 1977 - 100m - bw

Kampas (X)

D: Wolfgang Petersen

Cruising

USA - 1980 - 106m - col

ITC (X) (cut)

D: William Friedkin

Don’t Answer the Phone!

USA - 1979 - 95m - col

New Realm (X) (cut)

D: Robert Hammer

Drevo zhelanya

[see: Wishing Tree, The]

The Elephant Man

USA - 1980 - 124m - bw / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: David Lynch
Dolby Stereo

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

USA - 1980 - 108m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Piers Haggard

Hollywood Boulevard

USA - 1976 - 83m - col

Brent Walker (cut)

D: Joe Dante, Allan Arkush
Followed by: Hollywood Boulevard II (1989).

Honeysuckle Rose

(aka: On the Road Again)

USA - 1980 - 119m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Jerry Schatzberg
Dolby Stereo

The Hostage Tower

USA (TV) - 1980 - 97m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Claudio Guzmán

Immoral

L’immorale

(USA: The Immoral One)

(aka: Confessions of a Prostitute)

France - 1980 - 90m - col

Facelift (X) (cut)

D: Claude Mulot

In a Year With 13 Moons

In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden

W.Germany - 1978 - 129m - col

Cinegate

D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Inferno

Italy - 1980 - 107m - col

20th Century Fox (X) (cut)

D: Dario Argento
Series: Suspiria (1977, Oct/1977).
Dolby Stereo

The Lady in Red

USA - 1979 - 93m - col

Barber Rose (X)

D: Lewis Teague

A Man, a Woman and a Bank

Canada - 1979 - 101m - col

Rank (AA)

D: Noel Black

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

USA - 1941 - 95m - bw

RKO Radio (A)

D: Alfred Hitchcock

Rough Cut

USA - 1980 - 111m - col

CIC (AA)

D: Don Siegel

Sexaphobia

Una donna di notte

Italy - 1979 - 94m - col

Golden Era (X) (cut)

D: Nello Rossati

Simon

USA - 1980 - 97m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Marshall Brickman

The Third Generation

Die dritte Generation

W.Germany - 1979 - 111m - col

Cinegate (X)

D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Wishing Tree

ნატვრის ხე

USSR - 1976 - 107m - col

Artificial Eye (A)

D: Tengiz Abuladze

Xanadu

USA - 1980 - 96m - col

CIC (A)

D: Robert Greenwald
Dolby Stereo