MB: September 1981

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

September 1981

Vol. 48 No. 572

4D Special Agents

UK - 1981 - 60m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: Harold Orton

American Pop

USA - 1981 - 96m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Ralph Bakshi
Dolby Stereo

Aus dem Tagebuch einer Siebzehnjährigen

[see: Come Make Love With Me]

Big Boss 2
Four Brave Dragons
사대맹룡
(USA: Lone Shaolin Avenger)
(aka: Bruce Against the Odds)
(aka: The Mighty Four)
S.Korea - 1977 - 79m - col
Childs Associates (X)
D: Kim Jeong-yong

City of Women

La città delle donne

Italy/France - 1980 - 139m - col

Artificial Eye (X)

D: Federico Fellini

Come Make Love With Me

Tagebuch einer Siebzehnjährigen

(USA: Young Love, Hot Love)

W.Germany - 1979 - 87m - col

Inter-European (X) (cut)

D: Jürgen Enz

Come With Me My Love
Take Time to Smell the Flowers

USA - 1977 - 65m - col
Tigon (X) (cut)
D: Chris Caras

Cross and Passion

UK - 1981 - 60m - col

BFI

D: Claire Pollak, Kim Longinotto

Endless Love

USA - 1981 - 110m - col

Barber (AA) (cut)

D: Franco Zeffirelli

Escape From New York

USA - 1981 - 99m - col / scope

Barber (AA)

D: John Carpenter
Followed by: Escape From L.A. (1996, Oct/1996).
Dolby Stereo

Escape to Victory
Victory

USA - 1981 - 117m - col / scope
ITC (A)
D: John Huston
Dolby Stereo

Fårö 1979

Fårö-dokument 1979

Sweden - 1979 - 103m - col

Darvill

D: Ingmar Bergman
Series: Fårö-dokument (1970).

The Fox and the Hound

USA - 1981 - 83m - col

Walt Disney (U)

D: Art Stevens, Ted Berman, Richard Rich
Followed by: The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006).

Glen or Glenda

(aka: I Led Two Lives)

USA - 1954 - 74m - bw

Border (Banned)

D: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Rejected by the BBFC in 1958, screened in selected cinemas without a BBFC certificate during the early 1980's, then passed uncut on video in 1995.

Goodbye Pork Pie

New Zealand - 1980 - 105m - col

Brent Walker (AA)

D: Geoff Murphy

History of the World Part 1

USA - 1981 - 92m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Mel Brooks

Home From Home

UK - 1981 - 91m - col

Concord

D: Simon Heaven

In for Treatment

Opname

Netherlands - 1979 - 92m - col

Essential Cinema

D: Erik van Zuylen, Marja Kok

Love Camp

Die Todesgöttin des Liebescamps

(aka: Divine Emanuelle: Love Cult)

W.Germany - 1980 - 99m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Christian Anders

Love, Lust and Ecstasy

Ερωτική Έκσταση

Greece - 1980 - 90m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Ilias Mylonakos
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

Moscow Distrusts Tears

Москва слезам не верит

(aka: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears)

USSR - 1979 - 148m - col

Rank (A)

D: Vladimir Menshov

Moskva slezam ne verit

[see: Moscow Distrusts Tears]

No Other Woman

USA - 1933 - 58m - bw

Radio (A) (cut)

D: J. Walter Ruben

The Oberwald Mystery

Il mistero di Oberwald

(USA: The Mystery of Oberwald)

Italy/W.Germany - 1980 - 129m - col

Artificial Eye (A)

D: Michelangelo Antonioni

Red Ensign

(USA: Strike!)

UK - 1934 - 69m - bw

Gaumont-British (U)

D: Michael Powell
Also reviewed: May 1934.

Shōgun

USA/Japan (TV) - 1981 - 547m - 5 episodes - col

CIC (A) (cut)

D: Jerry London
The UK version distributed theatrically by CIC was a condensed feature-length edition, running 151 mins.

Something Always Happens

UK - 1934 - 69m - bw

Warner (U)

D: Michael Powell

Stripes

USA - 1981 - 106m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Ivan Reitman