MFB: September 1989

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

September 1989

Vol. 56 No. 668

Apartment Zero

UK - 1988 - 125m - col

Mainline (15)

D: Martin Donovan
Ultra-Stereo

Ashik Kerib

აშიკი ქერიბი

USSR - 1988 - 78m - col

ICA

D: Dodo Abashidze, Sergei Paradjanov

Bad Taste

New Zealand - 1987 - 92m - col

Blue Dolphin (18)

D: Peter Jackson

Batman

USA - 1989 - 126m - col

Warner (12)

D: Tim Burton
35mm and 70mm release prints.
Followed by: Batman Returns (1992, Aug/1992), Forever (1995, Aug/1995), Batman & Robin (1997, Aug/1997).
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Bull Durham

USA - 1988 - 108m - col

Rank (15)

D: Ron Shelton
Dolby Stereo

Camp Thiaroye

Camp de Thiaroye

Senegal/Algeria/Tunisia - 1988 - 152m - col

Metro (15)

D: Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow

Dead Poets Society

USA - 1989 - 129m - col

Warner (PG)

D: Peter Weir
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive

USA - 1986 - 91m - col

V: Warner (18)

D: Larry Cohen
Series: It's Alive (1973, Jun/1975).
Ultra-Stereo

Jacknife

USA - 1988 - 103m - col

Vestron (15)

D: David Jones
Dolby Stereo

The Karate Kid Part III

USA - 1989 - 112m - col

Columbia TriStar (PG)

D: John G. Avildsen
Series: The Karate Kid (1984, Sep/1984).
Dolby Stereo

KickBoxer

USA - 1989 - 105m - col

Entertainment (18) (cut)

D: David Worth, Mark DiSalle
Followed by: Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1990, Jun/1991), Kickboxer III: The Art of War (1994, Aug/1994), Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor (1994), Kickboxer 5 (1995).
Ultra-Stereo

Killing Dad or How to Love Your Mother

UK - 1989 - 93m - col

Palace (PG)

D: Michael Austin

The Land Before Time

USA - 1988 - 69m - col

UIP (U)

D: Don Bluth
Followed by: The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994), The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995), The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996), The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997), The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998), The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000), The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001), The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002), The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (2003), The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005), The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006), The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007), The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave (2016).
Dolby Stereo

The Legend of the Holy Drinker

La leggenda del santo bevitore

Italy - 1988 - 128m - col

Artificial Eye (PG)

D: Ermanno Olmi
Dolby Stereo

Kickboxer

Apartment Zero

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

UK - 1989 - 103m - col

Palace (15)

D: Jim Sheridan

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

USA - 1973 - 106m/121m - col / scope

MGM-EMI (X) (cut)

D: Sam Peckinpah
Also reviewed: Oct 1973.

Physical Evidence

USA - 1988 - 99m - col

Rank (18)

D: Michael Crichton
Dolby Stereo

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

USA - 1989 - 84m - col

Warner (PG) (cut)

D: Peter Bonerz
Series: Police Academy (1984, Jun/1984).

A Return to Salem’s Lot

USA - 1987 - 101m - col

V: Warner (18)

D: Larry Cohen
Series: Salem's Lot (1979).

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

USA - 1989 - 102m - col

Columbia TriStar (15)

D: Arthur Hiller
Dolby Stereo

sex, lies, and videotape

USA - 1989 - 100m - col

Virgin (18)

D: Steven Soderbergh
Dolby Stereo

Speaking Parts

Canada - 1989 - 92m - col

Recorded Releasing (18)

D: Atom Egoyan

Talk Radio

USA - 1988 - 109m - col

20th Century Fox (18)

D: Oliver Stone
Dolby Stereo

Testament

UK - 1988 - 80m - col

Black Audio Film Collective

D: John Akomfrah

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

¿Que he hecho yo para merecer esto!!

Spain - 1984 - 101m - col

Metro (18)

D: Pedro Almodóvar