MFB: February 1980

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

February 1980

Vol. 47 No. 553

Bear Island

Canada/UK - 1979 - 118m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Don Sharp
Dolby Stereo

The Black Hole

USA - 1979 - 98m - col / scope

Walt Disney (A)

D: Gary Nelson
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Caravans

USA/Iran - 1978 - 123m - col / scope

Bordeaux (A)

D: James Fargo

City on Fire

USA/Canada - 1979 - 106m - col

Rank (AA)

D: Alvin Rakoff

The Dragon Lives
He’s a Legend He’s a Hero
詠春大兄
(aka: King of Kung Fu)
Hong Kong - 1976 - 90m - col / scope
Brent Walker (X) (cut)
D: Wong Sing-lui

Earth

Земля

(aka: Song of New Life)

USSR - 1930 - 90m - bw

Atlas (A) (cut)

D: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Eat My Dust!

USA - 1976 - 89m - col

New World (AA)

D: Charles B. Griffith

Four Questions About Art

UK - 1979 - 50m - col

Concord

D: Edward Bennett

Gambling City

La città gioca d’azzardo

(aka: The Cheaters)

Italy - 1974 - 101m - col / scope

Entertainment (X) (cut)

D: Sergio Martino

Going Steady

יוצאים קבוע

(aka: Greasy Kid Stuff)

(aka: Lemon Popsicle II)

Israel - 1979 - 88m - col

Entertainment (X)

D: Boaz Davidson
Series: Lemon Popsicle (1977, Oct/1978).

Good Guys Wear Black

USA - 1977 - 95m - col

Enterprise (A) (cut)

D: Ted Post

The Human Factor

UK/USA - 1979 - 114m - col

Rank (AA)

D: Otto Preminger

Jaguar Lives!

USA - 1979 - 90m - col

Rank (AA) (cut)

D: Ernest Pintoff

Knight of the Black Eagle

Condottieri

(USA: Giovanni de Medici: The Leader)

Germany/Italy - 1937 - 97m - bw

BFI

D: Luis Trenker, Werner Klingler

The Late Great Planet Earth

USA - 1976 - 86m - col

Enterprise (A)

D: Robert Amram

Meatballs

Canada - 1979 - 94m - col

CIC (AA)

D: Ivan Reitman
Followed by: Meatballs Part II (1984), Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986), Meatballs 4 (1992).

My Brilliant Career

Australia - 1979 - 100m - col

Mainline (U)

D: Gillian Armstrong

North Dallas Forty

USA - 1979 - 118m - col / scope

CIC (X)

D: Ted Kotcheff

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School

USA - 1979 - 93m - col

New World (AA) (cut)

D: Allan Arkush

Satan's Brew

Satansbraten

W.Germany - 1976 - 112m - col

Cinegate

D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Stanley Spencer

UK - 1979 - 54m - col

Concord

D: David Rowan

Starting Over

USA - 1979 - 106m - col

CIC (AA)

D: Alan J. Pakula

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

USA - 1979 - 132m - col / scope

CIC (U)

D: Robert Wise
Followed by: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982, Aug/1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984, Jul/1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986, Apr/1987), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989, Nov/1989), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991, Mar/1992), Star Trek: Generations (1994, Mar/1995), Star Trek: First Contact (1996, Jan/1997), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998, Feb/1999), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002, Feb/2003), Star Trek (2009, Jul/2009), Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013, Jul/2012), Star Trek: Beyond (2016, Sep/2016).
Dolby Stereo

Summer Night Fever

(aka: Disco Summer)

W.Germany - 1978 - 91m - col

Tedderwick (X)

D: Sigi Rothemund [as: Siggi Götz]

The Playbirds: July 1978

Sunburn

UK/USA - 1979 - 98m - col

Hemdale (A)

D: Richard C. Sarafian

The Swissmakers

Die Schweizermacher

Switzerland - 1978 - 108m - col

Contemporary (A)

D: Rolf Lyssy

The Violation of the Bitch

La visita del vicio

(aka: The Coming of Sin)

Spain - 1978 - 85m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: José Ramón Larraz

The Wanderers

USA - 1979 - 117m - col

GTO (X)

D: Philip Kaufman

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

Warum läuft Herr R. Amok

W.Germany - 1970 - 88m - col

Cinegate

D: Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Yotz’ Im Kavua

[see: Going Steady]

Zemlya

[see: Earth]

Zombies
Dawn of the Dead

USA - 1978 - 127m - col
Target (X) (cut)
D: George A. Romero
Series: Night of the Living Dead (1968, Jan/1970).