MFB: May 1977

Introduction for newcomers

Je t'aime moi non plus

Monthly Film Bulletin

May 1977

Vol. 44 No. 520

Airport ’77

USA - 1977 - 114m - col / scope

CIC (A)

D: Jerry Jameson
Series: Airport (1969, Jun/1970).

All This and World War II

USA - 1976 - 88m - bw and col

20th Century Fox (A)

D: Susan Winslow

Bare Knuckles

USA - 1976 - 94m - col

Target (X) (cut)

D: Don Edmonds

Blind Man’s Bluff

UK - 1977 - 58m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: Gerry O’Hara

The Blood of a Poet

Le sang d’un poète

France - 1930 - 53m - bw

Connoisseur

D: Jean Cocteau

Bloody Virgin

Βρώμικη Παρθένα

(aka: Sexuality by the Sea)

Greece - 1975 - 102m - col

Cinecenta (X)

D: Kostas Andritsos

Bound for Glory

USA - 1976 - 148m - col

United Artists (A)

D: Hal Ashby

Burnt Offerings

USA - 1976 - 115m - col

United Artists (AA)

D: Dan Curtis

Call Detroit 9000
Detroit 9000

(aka: Detroit Heat)
USA - 1973 - 106m - col
New Realm (X) (cut)
D: Arthur Marks

The Cameraman

USA - 1928 - silent - bw

Harris (U)

D: Edward Sedgwick

Chikamatsu monogatari

近松物語

(aka: The Crucified Lovers)

(aka: A Story From Chikamatsu)

Japan - 1954 - 102m - bw

Cinegate (A)

D: Kenji Mizoguchi

Come Play With Me

UK - 1977 - 94m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: George Harrison Marks

Death in the Sun
Albino

(USA: Night of the Askari)
(aka: Whispering Death)
W.Germany/UK/S.Africa/Zimbabwe - 1975 - 96m - col
Variety (X) (cut)
D: Jürgen Goslar

Death Riders

USA - 1975 - 84m - col

Variety (A)

D: James Wilson

Dixie Dynamite

USA - 1976 - 88m - col

Alpha (AA) (cut)

D: Lee Frost
Passed uncut by the BBFC in 1977, but cut when resubmitted in 1982.

Donald Duck Goes West

USA - 1976 - 66m - col

Walt Disney (U)

D: [various]

Double Exposure

UK - 1976 - 81m - col

Columbia-Warner (AA) (cut)

D: William Webb

Do You Want My Wife?

Femmes vicieuses

France - 1975 - 85m - col / scope

Cinecenta (X) (cut)

D: Georges Cachoux

East of Elephant Rock

UK - 1976 - 92m - col

Scotia-Barber (AA)

D: Don Boyd

Echoes of a Summer

USA/Canada - 1975 - 98m - col

United Artists (A)

D: Don Taylor

Everybody's

Luxure

(USA: Sweet Taste of Honey)

France - 1976 - 81m - col

Border (X) (cut)

D: Max Pécas

Fern the Red Deer

UK - 1976 - 58m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: Jan Darnley-Smith

Der flüsternde Tod

[see: Albino]

Fun With Dick and Jane

USA - 1976 - 100m - col

Columbia-Warner (A)

D: Ted Kotcheff

The Glitterball

UK - 1977 - 56m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: Harley Cokeliss

Gojira tai Gaigan

[see: War of the Monsters]

Gulliver’s Travels

UK - 1976 - 81m - col

EMI (U)

D: Peter Hunt

High Velocity

USA - 1976 - 106m - col / scope

Variety (AA)

D: Remi Kramer

Innocent Girls Abroad

Die jungen Ausreißerinnen: Sex-Abenteuer deutscher Mädchen in aller Welt

(USA: The Innocent Abroad)

(aka: Runaway Girls)

W.Germany - 1972 - 97m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Walter Boos

In the Name of the Father

Nel nome del padre

Italy - 1971 - 115m - col

The Other Cinema (AA)

D: Marco Bellocchio

J’e t'aime moi non plus

(aka: I Love You, I Don’t)

France - 1975 - 88m - col

Gala (Banned)

D: Serge Gainsbourg
Rejected for cinema by the BBFC in 1976, then released on video by Intervision in 1979. 'Approved' for video in 1993.

Journey Into the Beyond

Reise ins Jenseits: Die Welt des Übernatürlichen

W.Germany - 1975 - 113m - col

Eagle (X) (cut)

D: Rolf Olsen

Lives of Performers

USA - 1972 - 90m - bw

BFI

D: Yvonne Rainer

Look In on Sex

Schlüsselloch-Report

(USA: Teenage Intimacies)

(aka: The Intimate Teenagers)

W.Germany - 1973 - 87m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Walter Boos

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum

(USA: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum)

W.Germany - 1975 - 106m - col

Contemporary (AA)

D: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta

Ma femme vous plaît... j'adore la vôtre

[see: Do You Want My Wife?]

The Man on the Roof

Mannen på taket

Sweden - 1976 - 109m - col

Connoisseur (AA)

D: Bo Widerberg

Meat

USA - 1976 - 112m - bw

The Other Cinema

D: Frederick Wiseman

Merry-Go-Round

USA - 1922 - silent - bw

Cinegate (U)

D: Rupert Julian (and Erich von Stroheim)

Mr. Klein

France/Italy - 1976 - 123m - col

Gala (AA)

D: Joseph Losey

Night Ferry

UK - 1976 - 60m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: David Eady

Nosey Dobson

UK - 1976 - 59m - col

Pelicula / Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: Michael Alexander

Occupy!

UK - 1976 - 55m - col

BFI

D: Gael Dohany

Pussy Talk

Le sexe qui parle

France - 1975 - 91m - col

Oppidan (X - London) (cut)

D: Claude Mulot [as: Frédéric Lansac]
Rejected for cinema by the BBFC in 1976, though a heavily edited version was screened in London after being 'approved' by the local council. The film premiered on video in 1979 (pre-VRA), before being 'approved' by the BBFC (with fewer cuts than before) in 2000.
Followed by: Le sexe qui parle 2 (1978).

Seal Island

UK - 1977 - 57m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: Ronald Spencer

Section spéciale

France/Italy/W.Germany - 1975 - 118m - col

Curzon (A)

D: Costa-Gavras

Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers

UK - 1977 - 90m - col

Warner (AA)

D: Norman Cohen
Series: The Virgin Soldiers (1969, Dec/1969).

Stud Brown
The Dynamite Brothers

(aka: East Meets Watts)
USA - 1974 - 94m - col
Variety (X) (cut)
D: Al Adamson

Supervixens

USA - 1975 - 105m - col

Antony Balch (X) (cut)

D: Russ Meyer

The Twilight Avengers

I vendicatori dell’Ave Maria

(aka: Fighters From Ave Maria)

Italy - 1970 - 89m - col

Miracle (A)

D: Bitto Albertini [as: Al Albert]

War of the Monsters

地球攻撃命令　ゴジラ対ガイガン

(USA: Godzilla on Monster Island)

(aka: Godzilla vs. Gigan)

Japan - 1972 - 89m - col / scope

Miracle (A)

D: Jun Fukuda
Series: Godzilla (1954, Feb/1957).