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