MFB: September 1979

Introduction for newcomers

Dracula

Monthly Film Bulletin

September 1979

Vol. 46 No. 548

120 Days of Sodom

Salò o Le 120 giornate di Sodoma

(USA: Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom)

Italy/France - 1975 - 117m - col

Cinecenta (Banned))

D: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rejected by the BBFC in 1976, then passed uncut in 2000.

Alien

USA - 1979 - 117m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (X)

D: Ridley Scott
35mm and 70mm release prints.
Followed by: Aliens (1986, Sep/1986), Alien³ (1992, Aug/1992), Alien: Resurrection (1997, Dec/1997), AVP: Aliens vs. Predator (2004, Nov/2004), AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007, Mar/2008).
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

The Bermuda Triangle

USA - 1978 - 94m - col

Sunn Classic (U)

D: Richard Friedenberg
Dolby Stereo

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

USA - 1979 - 114m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A) (cut)

D: Irwin Allen
Series: The Poseidon Adventure (1972, Jan/1973).

The Billion Dollar Threat

USA (TV) - 1979 - 97m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Barry Shear

The Bitch

UK - 1979 - 94m - col

Brent Walker (X)

D: Gerry O’Hara
Series: The Stud (1978, May/1978).

Bloodline

USA/W.Germany - 1979 - 117m - col

CIC (X) (cut)

D: Terence Young

The China Syndrome

USA - 1979 - 122m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: James Bridges

Confessions of the Sex Slaves

Tänzerinnen für Tanger

(USA: Sensual Partners)

(aka: Danish Sex Slaves)

(aka: Island of the Savage Sex Slaves)

(aka: Naked Street Girls)

(aka: Sensuous Slaves)

Switzerland/France - 1977 - 83m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Jack Guy [as: Guy Gilbert]

The Daughter of Emanuelle

La fille d’Emmanuelle

France/Belgium/Italy - 1975 - 90m - col

Jay Jay (X)

D: Jean Luret

A Different Story

USA - 1978 - 108m - col

Enterprise (AA)

D: Paul Aaron

Dracula

USA - 1979 - 112m - col / scope

CIC (X)

D: John Badham
Dolby Stereo

Home Before Midnight

UK - 1978 - 111m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X)

D: Pete Walker

Last Chants for a Slow Dance

USA - 1977 - 88m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Jon Jost

Licensed to Love and Kill

(USA: The Man From S.E.X.)

(aka: Undercover Lover)

UK - 1979 - 94m - col / scope

Firebird (AA) (cut)

D: Lindsay Shonteff
Series: No. 1 of the Secret Service (1977, Jun/1978).

The Lifetaker

UK - 1979 - 103m - col / scope

Premier Releasing (X) (cut)

D: Michael Papas

A Little Romance

USA - 1979 - 108m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: George Roy Hill

My Love Has Been Burning

わが恋は燃えぬ

(aka: Flame of My Love)

Japan - 1949 - 84m - bw

Cinegate (A)

D: Kenji Mizoguchi

The Odd Angry Shot

Australia - 1979 - 92m - col

Tedderwick

D: Tom Jeffrey

Outer Touch

(USA: Spaced Out)

UK - 1978 - 78m - col

Miracle (X)

D: Norman J. Warren

Mondo Erotico: Aug 1979

Pasolini’s 120 Days of Sodom

[see: 120 Days of Sodom]

Quadrophenia

UK - 1979 - 120m - col

Brent Walker (X)

D: Franc Roddam
Dolby Stereo

Queen of the Blues

UK - 1979 - 62m - col

Tigon (X)

D: Willy Roe

Roger Corman: Hollywood’s Wild Angel

USA - 1978 - 58m - col

Cinegate

D: Christian Blackwood

Saint Jack

USA - 1979 - 115m - col

New World (X)

D: Peter Bogdanovich

Scum

UK - 1979 - 97m - col

GTO (X)

D: Alan Clarke

Waga koi wa moenu

[see: My Love Has Been Burning]