MFB: August 1981

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

August 1981

Vol. 48 No. 571

The Aviator's Wife

La femme de l’aviateur

France - 1980 - 106m - col

Artificial Eye (A)

D: Eric Rohmer

The Cannonball Run

USA - 1980 - 95m - col

20th Century Fox (A)

D: Hal Needham
Followed by: Cannonball Run II (1983, Jun/1984).

Condorman

USA - 1981 - 90m - col / scope

Walt Disney (U)

D: Charles Jarrott
Dolby Stereo

Correction, Please or How We Got Into Pictures

UK - 1979 - 52m - col

Concord

D: Noël Burch

Emmanuelle in Soho

UK - 1981 - 69m - col

Tigon (X)

D: David Hughes (and Ray Selfe)

Eyes of a Stranger

USA - 1980 - 85m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X) (cut)

D: Ken Wiederhorn

For Your Eyes Only

UK - 1981 - 127m - col / scope

United Artists (A)

D: John Glen
Series: Dr. No (1962, Oct/1962).
Dolby Stereo

The Four Seasons

USA - 1981 - 108m - col

CIC (AA)

D: Alan Alda

The Godsend

UK - 1980 - 90m - col

Cannon (AA)

D: Gabrielle Beaumont

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Great Muppet Caper

UK/USA - 1981 - 97m - col

ITC (U)

D: Jim Henson
Series: The Muppet Movie (1979, Jul/1979).
Dolby Stereo

Ground Zero

USA - 1973 - 86m - col

London International (A) (cut)

D: James T. Flocker

Hat, Coat, and Glove

USA - 1934 - 64m - bw

Radio (A)

D: Worthington Miner

His Kind of Woman

USA - 1951 - 117m - bw

RKO Radio (A)

D: John Farrow
Also reviewed: Oct 1951.

In God We Tru$t or: Gimme That Prime Time Religion

USA - 1980 - 97m - col

CIC (AA)

D: Marty Feldman

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

USA - 1981 - 98m - col / scope

ITC (A) (cut)

D: William A. Fraker

Lion of the Desert

USA/Libya - 1981 - 163m - col / scope

Enterprise (AA)

D: Moustapha Akkad
Dolby Stereo

Man Hunt

USA - 1932 - 63m - bw

Kingston (U)

D: Irving Cummings

The Man You Loved to Hate

USA - 1979 - 90m - bw and col

BFI

D: Patrick Montgomery

Outland

USA - 1981 - 109m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Peter Hyams
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo (MegaSound encoding)

Portrait of Teresa

Retrato de Teresa

Cuba - 1979 - 103m - col

Cinegate (A)

D: Pastor Vega

The Psychopath

USA - 1973 - 84m - col

London International (AA) (cut)

D: Larry G. Brown

Raiders of the Lost Ark

USA - 1981 - 115m - col / scope

CIC (A)

D: Steven Spielberg
35mm and 70mm release prints. Converted to IMAX-D for a 2012 re-release.
Followed by: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, Jul/1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, Jul/1989), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008, Aug/2008).
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Chinese Fortune Cookies (UK: Massage Girls
in B'Kok): Nov 1979

Sex on the Rocks

Die schönen Wilden von Ibiza

(USA: Wild and Beautiful on Ibiza)

W.Germany - 1980 - 87m - col

Amanda (X)

D: Sigi Rothemund [as: Siggi Götz]

Some American Feminists

Canada - 1977 - 56m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Luce Guilbeault, Nicole Brossard, Margaret Wescott

Stranger on the Third Floor

USA - 1940 - 64m - bw

RKO Radio (A) (cut)

D: Boris Ingster
Also reviewed: Nov 1940.

Supersnooper

Poliziotto superpiù

(USA: Super Fuzz)

Italy/Spain/USA - 1980 - 106m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Sergio Corbucci

This is Elvis

USA - 1981 - 101m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt
Dolby Stereo

Time Bandits

UK - 1981 - 113m - col

HandMade (A)

D: Terry Gilliam
Dolby Stereo

We Are the Guinea Pigs

USA - 1980 - 91m - col

The Other Cinema / Concord

D: Joan Harvey

Where Danger Lives

USA - 1950 - 84m - bw

RKO Radio (A)

D: John Farrow
Also reviewed: Jan 1951.