Wednesday 30 November 2016

MFB: December 1978




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

Tuesday 29 November 2016

MFB: November 1978




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]

Monday 28 November 2016

MFB: October 1978




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