MFB: July 1978

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

July 1978

Vol. 45 No. 534

Akseli and Elina

Akseli ja Elina

Finland - 1970 - 137m - col

Contemporary (A)

D: Edvin Laine
Series: The Unknown Soldier (1955, Aug/1958).

Capricorn One

USA - 1977 - 124m - col / scope

ITC (A)

D: Peter Hyams
35mm and 70mm release prints.
6-channel stereo

Chinese Roulette

Chinesisches roulette

W.Germany/France - 1976 - 96m - col

Cinegate (AA)

D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Closet Children

Les enfants du placard

France - 1977 - 106m - col

Artificial Eye (AA)

D: Benoît Jacquot

Desperate Living

USA - 1977 - 91m - col

Oppidan (Banned)

D: John Waters
Rejected by the BBFC in 1977, then released on video by Palace in 1983 (pre-VRA). The film was 'approved' for video - with cuts - in 1990.

The Domino Killings
The Domino Principle

USA - 1976 - 100m - col

ITC (A) (cut)

D: Stanley Kramer

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali

(USA: Trap Them and Kill Them)

Italy - 1977 - 87m - col / scope

Entertainment (X) (cut)

D: Joe D’Amato
Series: Black Emanuelle (1976, Jul/1976).

Fantasm

(USA: World of Sexual Fantasy)

Australia - 1976 - 90m - col

Butcher's (X) (cut)

D: Richard Franklin [as: Richard Bruce]
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.
Followed by: Fantasm Comes Again (1977).

The French Way

Le mouton enragé

(USA: Love at the Top)

(aka: The Seducer)

France/Italy - 1974 - 105m - col

Watchgrove (X)

D: Michel Deville

Go Tell the Spartans

USA - 1977 - 114m - col

United Artists (X)

D: Ted Post

Here Beneath the North Star

Täällä pohjantähden alla

Finland - 1968 - 182m - col

Contemporary (A)

D: Edvin Laine
Series: The Unknown Soldier (1955, Aug/1958).

Kuhle Wampe

Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt?

(aka: Kuhle Wampe, or To Whom Does the World Belong?)
(aka: Whither Germany)
Germany - 1931 - 80m - bw

The Film Society

D: Slatan Dudow
Also reviewed: Feb 1934.

The Last Waltz

USA - 1978 - 117m - col

United Artists (U)

D: Martin Scorsese
Dolby Stereo

Let’s Get Laid

UK - 1977 - 96m - col

Target (X)

D: James Kenelm Clarke

Love is Colder Than Death

Liebe ist kälter als der Tod

W.Germany - 1969 - 88m - bw

Cinegate

D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Love on a Horse

Το κορίτσι και τ' άλογο

(USA: Portrait of a Love Affair)

(aka: Confessions of a Riding Mistress)

Greece - 1973 - 98m - col

London International (X)

D: Vangelis Serdaris

The Medusa Touch

UK/France - 1978 - 109m - col

ITC (A)

D: Jack Gold

Merrily We Go to Hell

USA - 1932 - 78m - bw

BFI (A)

D: Dorothy Arzner

Midnight Express

UK - 1978 - 121m - col

Columbia-Warner (X)

D: Alan Parker

Morgan’s Wall

UK - 1978 - 53m - col

Concord / Liberation Films

D: Caroline Goldie, Ron Orders, Geoff Richman, Marie Richman

Peter Ibbetson

USA - 1935 - 88m - bw

Associated-British (U) (cut)

D: Henry Hathaway
Also reviewed: Dec 1935.

The Playbirds

(aka: The Playbird Murders)

UK - 1978 - 94m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Willy Roe

The Rise and Rise of Casanova
Casanova & Co.

(USA: Some Like It Cool)
(aka: The Amorous Mis-Adventures of Casanova)
(aka: Sex on the Run)
Austria/Italy/France/W.Germany - 1977 - 104m - col
Trident-Barber (X)
D: Franz Antel [as: François Legrand]

The Serpent's Egg

Das Schlangenei

W.Germany/USA - 1977 - 119m - col

Enterprise (X)

D: Ingmar Bergman

The Sexy Schoolteacher

L’insegnante

Italy - 1975 - 95m - col

Watchgrove (X)

D: Nando Cicero
Followed by: L'insegnante va in collegio (1978), L'insegnante viene a casa (1978), L'insegnante balla... con tutta la classe (1979), L'insegnante al mare con tutta la classe (1980).

She Knew No Other Way

Τα παιδια των λουλουδιων

Greece - 1973 - 112m - col

London International (X) (cut)

D: Omiros Efstratiadis

Le Sheriff

Le juge Fayard dit Le Shériff

France - 1976 - 112m - col

Gala (AA)

D: Yves Boisset

Shipwreck!
The Sea Gypsies

USA - 1978 - 101m - col
Columbia-Warner (U)
D: Stewart Raffill

The Shout

UK - 1978 - 86m - col

Rank (AA)

D: Jerzy Skolimowski
Dolby Stereo

The Stepford Wives

USA - 1974 - 115m - col

Contemporary (AA)

D: Bryan Forbes
Followed by: Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980), The Stepford Children (1987), The Stepford Husbands (1996).

Swedish Massage Parlour

Blutjunge Masseusen

(USA: Pin-Up Playmates)

(aka: Vacation Temptations)

Switzerland - 1972 - 82m - col

Entertainment (X)

D: Erwin C. Dietrich [as: Manfred Gregor]

An Unmarried Woman

USA - 1977 - 124m - col

20th Century Fox (X)

D: Paul Mazursky

Warlords of Atlantis

UK - 1978 - 96m - col

EMI (A)

D: Kevin Connor

The Wild Geese

UK - 1978 - 134m - col

Rank (AA)

D: Andrew V. McLaglen
Followed by: Wild Geese II (1985, May/1985).