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