MFB: December 1978

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1978

Vol. 45 No. 539

Archisexe

L’archisexe

France/Belgium - 1975 - 90m - col

Watchgrove (X) (cut)

D: Patrice Rhomm

Behind Convent Walls

Interno di un convento

(aka: Within a Cloister)

Italy - 1977 - 96m - col

New Realm (X) (cut)

D: Walerian Borowczyk

A Blonde Dream

Ein blonder Traum

Germany - 1932 - 87m - bw

BFI

D: Paul Martin
Also filmed in an English-language version, Happy Ever After (1932, Mar/1939), shot on the same sets, with actors exclusive to each edition.

Carry On Emmannuelle

UK - 1978 - 88m - col

Hemdale (AA)

D: Gerald Thomas
Series: Carry On Sergeant (1958, Sep/1958).

Close Encounters of a Handyman

Ein guter Hahn wird selten fett

(USA: All Around Service)

(aka: Housewife Orgy)

W.Germany - 1978 - 77m - col

Eagle (X) (cut)

D: Johnny Wyder
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

Damien: Omen II

USA - 1978 - 108m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (X)

D: Don Taylor
Series: The Omen (1976, Aug/1976).
4-channel stereo

Design for Living

USA - 1933 - 91m - bw

Paramount (A)

D: Ernst Lubitsch
Also reviewed: May 1934.

Dog Soldiers
Who’ll Stop the Rain

USA - 1978 - 126m - col
United Artists (X)
D: Karel Reisz

Foul Play

USA - 1978 - 116m - col

CIC (A)

D: Colin Higgins

The Hills Have Eyes

USA - 1977 - 90m - col

New Realm (X) (cut)

D: Wes Craven
Followed by: The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984).

If I Had a Million

USA - 1932 - 88m - bw

Paramount (A) (cut)

D: James Cruze, William A. Seiter, Stephen Roberts, Norman Taurog, Norman McLeod, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch

Interiors

USA - 1978 - 91m - col

United Artists (AA)

D: Woody Allen

It Lives Again

USA - 1978 - 91m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X)

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

J.A. Martin, Photographer

J.A. Martin photographe

Canada - 1976 - 101m - col

Contemporary

D: Jean Beaudin

Jaws 2

USA - 1978 - 116m - col / scope

CIC (A)

D: Jeannot Szwarc
Series: Jaws (1975, Dec/1975).

Killer’s Moon

UK - 1978 - 90m - col

Rothernorth (X)

D: Alan Birkinshaw

Newsfront

Australia - 1978 - 111m - bw and col

Mainline (A)

D: Phillip Noyce

Rapunzel Let Down Your Hair

UK - 1978 - 78m - col

BFI (AA)

D: Susan Shapiro, Esther Ronay, Francine Winham

The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler

USA - 1971 - 100m - col

Harris/Films

D: Bob Wynn

Revenge of the Dead
Meatcleaver Massacre

(aka: Evil Force)
(aka: Hollywood Meat Cleaver Massacre)
USA - 1977 - 87m - col
Brent Walker (X) (cut)
D: Evan Lee

Sho o suteyo, machi e deyo

[see: Throw Away Your Books, Let’s Go Into the Streets]

The Silent Flute
Circle of Iron

USA - 1978 - 95m - col
Rank (AA) (cut)
D: Richard Moore

Somebody Killed Her Husband

USA - 1978 - 97m - col / scope

Trident-Barber (A)

D: Lamont Johnson

Stevie

USA/UK - 1978 - 102m - col

Enterprise (AA)

D: Robert Enders

The Thirty Nine Steps

UK - 1978 - 102m - col

Rank (A)

D: Don Sharp

Three Men and Lilian

Die Drei von der Tankstelle

(USA: Three Good Friends)

Germany - 1930 - 91m - bw

BFI (U)

D: Wilhelm Thiele

Throw Away Your Books, Let’s Go Into the Streets

書を捨てよ町へ出よう

(USA: Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets)

Japan - 1971 - 159m - col

Essential Cinema

D: Shūji Terayama

A Wedding

USA - 1978 - 125m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (AA)

D: Robert Altman
Dolby Stereo

Wings

USA - 1927 - silent - bw

Famous Lasky (A)

D: William A. Wellman

MFB: November 1978

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

November 1978

Vol. 45 No. 538

The Bare Breasted Countess

La comtesse noire

(USA: Erotikill)

(aka: Female Vampire)

(aka: The Loves of Irina)

France/Belgium - 1973 - 101m/94m/72m - col / scope

Cinecenta (X) (cut)

D: Jesús Franco [as: J.P. Johnson]

Black and White in Colour

La victoire en chantant

(USA: Black and White in Color)
France/Switzerland/Ivory Coast - 1976 - 100m - col

United Artists (A)

D: Jean-Jacques Annaud

The Blockhouse

UK - 1973 - 92m - col / scope

Harris/Films

D: Clive Rees

Blood Relatives

Les liens du sang

Canada/France - 1977 - 95m - col

Rank (X)

D: Claude Chabrol

Blue Collar

USA - 1978 - 114m - col

CIC (X)

D: Paul Schrader

The Cat From Outer Space

USA - 1978 - 103m - col

Walt Disney (U)

D: Norman Tokar

Chikuzan hitori tabi

[see: Life of Chikuzan, Tsugaru Shamisen Player, The]

Citizen's Band
Handle With Care

USA - 1978 - 98m - col
Cinegate (AA)
D: Jonathan Demme

Coma

USA - 1977 - 113m - col

CIC (AA)

D: Michael Crichton

La comtesse aux seins nus

[see: Bare Breasted Countess, The]

The Cop in Blue Jeans

Squadra antiscippo

Italy - 1976 - 95m - col

Entertainment (X) (cut)

D: Bruno Corbucci

Death Trap
Eaten Alive

(aka: Horror Hotel)
(aka: Legend of the Bayou)
(aka: Starlight Slaughter)
USA - 1976 - 89m - col
Tedderwick (X) (cut)
D: Tobe Hooper

The Devil’s Cleavage

USA - 1975 - 110m - bw

Respectable Films

D: George Kuchar

Eaten Alive

Eyes of Laura Mars

USA - 1978 - 103m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Irvin Kershner

Hooper

USA - 1978 - 99m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A) (cut)

D: Hal Needham

L’hôtel de la plage

(aka: The Beach Hotel)

(aka: Holiday Hotel)

France - 1977 - 111m - col / scope

Gala (AA)

D: Michel Lang

The Legacy

UK - 1978 - 102m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X)

D: Richard Marquand
Dolby Stereo

The Life of Chikuzan, Tsugaru Shamisen Player

竹山ひとり旅

Japan - 1977 - 122m - col

Essential Cinema

D: Kaneto Shindō

Loves of Ariane
Ariane

Germany - 1931 - 70m - bw
Pathescope (A)
D: Paul Czinner

Mad Dog
Mad Dog Morgan

Australia - 1976 - 110m - col / scope

Trident-Barber (X)

D: Philippe Mora

Montreal Main

Canada - 1974 - 88m - bw

Harris/Films

D: Frank Vitale
Followed by: The Rubber Gun (1977).

My Way Home

UK - 1978 - 72m - bw

BFI (AA)

D: Bill Douglas
Series: My Childhood (1972, short).

Pardon Mon Affaire, Too

Nous irons tous au paradis

(USA: We Will All Meet in Paradise)

France - 1977 - 112m - col

Enterprise (AA)

D: Yves Robert
Series: Pardon Mon Affaire (1976, Mar/1978).

Piranha

USA - 1978 - 94m - col

United Artists (X)

D: Joe Dante
Followed by: Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982, Oct/1982).

Le sauvage

France/Italy - 1975 - 107m - col

Curzon (A)

D: Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Second Chance

Si c'était à refaire

France - 1976 - 105m - col

United Artists (AA)

D: Claude Lelouch

Slavers

W.Germany - 1977 - 102m - col

Eagle (X) (cut)

D: Jürgen Goslar

Stunt Rock

(aka: Crash)

(aka: Sorcery)

Australia/Netherlands - 1978 - 91m - col / scope

Lancair (A) (cut)

D: Brian Trenchard-Smith

Summer Paradise

Paradistorg

Sweden - 1976 - 113m - col

Contemporary (AA)

D: Gunnel Lindblom

Unfaithful Wives

Les jouisseuses

France - 1975 - 80m - col

Cinecenta (X) (cut)

D: Lucien Hustaix

Violette & François

France - 1977 - 98m - col

Gala (X)

D: Jacques Rouffio

What’s Up Superdoc!

UK - 1978 - 96m - col

Entertainment (X)

D: Derek Ford
Series: What's Up Nurse! (1977, Jun/1977).

Why Shoot the Teacher?

Canada - 1976 - 99m - col

Contemporary (A)

D: Silvio Narizzano

Word is Out

USA - 1977 - 135m - col

Scala (AA) (cut)

D: Peter Adair & Nancy Adair & Veronica Selver & Andrew Brown & Robert Epstein & Lucy Massie Phénix [as: Mariposa Film Group]

MFB: October 1978

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

October 1978

Vol. 45 No. 537

Agent 69

Agent 69 Jensen i Skorpionens tegn

(USA: Agent 69 Jensen in the Sign of Scorpio)

(aka: Emmanuele in Denmark)

Denmark - 1977 - 89m - col

Supreme (X) (cut)

D: Werner Hedman
Series: I Jomfruens tegn (1973).

Ayam fi London

[see: Days in London]

Barracuda (The Lucifer Project)

USA - 1977 - 96m - col

Entertainment (AA)

D: Harry Kerwin

The Beast

La bête

(aka: Death’s Ecstacy)

France - 1975 - 102m - col

New Realm (Banned)

D: Walerian Borowczyk
Rejected by the BBFC in 1978, but later released on VHS, pre-VRA. An edited version, Death's Ecstacy, was passed for video in 1988, and then the film was passed uncut (as The Beast) for cinema and video in 2001.

Beauty and the Beast

USA (TV) - 1976 - 91m - col

Hemdale (U)

D: Fielder Cook

Blue Passion

Μαυρί Αφροδίτη

(USA: Black Afrodite)

(aka: Black Aphrodite)

Greece - 1977 - 96m - col

Grand National (X) (cut)

D: Pavlos Filippou [as: Saul Filipstein]

The Cheap Detective

USA - 1978 - 92m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Robert Moore

China Girl

(aka: Midnight Blues: Dirty Games)

USA - 1974 - 89m - col

Cinecenta (X) (cut)

D: Edwin Brown [as: Paolo Uccello]

The Cycle

دایره مینا

Iran - 1974 - 102m - col

Contemporary (AA)

D: Dariush Mehrjui

Damnation Alley

USA - 1977 - 91m - col / scope

Rank (A)

D: Jack Smight
Sound 360

Dayereh mina

[see: Cycle, The]

Days in London

ايام في لندن

Lebanon - 1977 - 97m - bw

Oppidan (A)

D: Samir Al Ghosaini

Death on the Nile

UK - 1978 - 140m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: John Guillermin
Series: Murder on the Orient Express (1974, Dec/1974).

Dream Life

La vie rêvée

Canada - 1972 - 90m - col

Harris/Films

D: Mireille Dansereau

The Driver

USA - 1978 - 91m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A) (cut)

D: Walter Hill

An Enemy of the People

USA - 1977 - 107m - col

Enterprise (U)

D: George Schaefer

Eskimo Limon

[see: Lemon Popsicle]

FM

USA - 1978 - 104m - col / scope

CIC (A)

D: John A. Alonzo
Dolby Stereo

The Fury

USA - 1978 - 118m - col

20th Century Fox (X)

D: Brian De Palma

The Greek Tycoon

USA - 1978 - 106m - col / scope

CIC (AA)

D: J. Lee Thompson

Heaven Can Wait

USA - 1978 - 101m - col

CIC (A)

D: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry

Immoral Story

Feuchte Träume junger Frauen

W.Germany - 1973 - 79m - col

Cinecenta (X)

D: Jürgen Enz [as: Jörg Michael]

The Inglorious Bastards

Quel maledetto treno blindato

(aka: Counterfeit Commandos)

(aka: Deadly Mission)

(aka: G.I. Bro)

(aka: Hell’s Heroes)

Italy - 1978 - 99m - col

Entertainment (AA)

D: Enzo G. Castellari

Lemon Popsicle

אסקימו לימון

(aka: Going All the Way)

Israel - 1977 - 100m - col

Entertainment (X) (cut)

D: Boaz Davidson
Followed by: Going Steady (1979, Feb/1980), Hot Bubblegum (1981, Jul/1981), Private Popsicle (Lemon Popsicle IV) (1982, Jul/1983), Baby Love (Lemon Popsicle V) (1983, Mar/1984), Up Your Anchor: Lemon Popsicle 6 (1985, Dec/1985), Young Love: Lemon Popsicle 7 (1987), Summertime Blues: Lemon Popsicle VIII (1988), Lemon Popsicle 9: The Party Goes On (2001).

Lola Montès

(aka: The Fall of Lola Montes)

France/W.Germany - 1955 - 140m - col / scope

Regent (A)

D: Max Ophüls
Also reviewed: Jan 1958.

Ludwig

Italy/France/W.Germany - 1972 - 238m - col / scope

Supreme (AA)

D: Luchino Visconti

The Odd Job

UK - 1978 - 87m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A) (cut)

D: Peter Medak

Outrageous!

Canada - 1977 - 100m - col

Miracle (X)

D: Richard Benner
Followed by: Too Outrageous! (1987).

Punk in London

W.Germany - 1977 - 111m - col

Essential Cinema

D: Wolfgang Büld

Raggedy Ann & Andy

USA - 1977 - 85m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (U)

D: Richard Williams

Renaldo & Clara

USA - 1977 - 235m/112m - col

Artificial Eye (AA)

D: Bob Dylan

Short Eyes

USA - 1977 - 104m - col

Success (X)

D: Robert M. Young

Special Cop in Action

Italio a mano armata

Italy - 1976 - 101m - col

Inter-Ocean (X)

D: Marino Girolami [as: Franco Martinelli]
Series: Street Killers (1975, Jul/1976).

Thieves

USA - 1976 - 103m - col

Scotia-Barber (A)

D: John Berry

Thunder and Lightning

USA - 1977 - 93m - col

20th Century Fox (A) (cut)

D: Corey Allen

Watership Down

UK - 1978 - 92m - col

CIC (U)

D: Martin Rosen
Dolby Stereo