MFB: December 1981

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1981

Vol. 48 No. 575

Absolution

(aka: Murder by Confession)

UK - 1978 - 95m - col

Enterprise (X)

D: Anthony Page

Alice Goodbody

(aka: Gosh)

USA - 1974 - 82m - col

New Realm (X)

D: Tom Scheuer

The All-American Woman

(aka: The All-American Vixen)

USA - 1975 - 81m - col

Hatton (X) (cut)

D: Mark Haggard

Back Roads

USA - 1981 - 95m - col

Rank (AA)

D: Martin Ritt

The Beyond

...e tu vivrai nel terrore! L’aldilà

(USA: 7 Doors of Death)

Italy - 1981 - 87m - col / scope

Eagle (X) (cut)

D: Lucio Fulci
The US version, 7 Doors of Death, was credited psudonymously to director 'Louis Fuller', and the mono sound was remixed in Dolby Stereo.

The Beyond

The Burning

USA - 1980 - 91m - col

HandMade (X) (cut)

D: Tony Maylam

The California Dolls
...All the Marbles

USA - 1981 - 113m - col
CIC (X)
D: Robert Aldrich

The Conductor

Dyrygent

Poland - 1979 - 102m - col

Cinegate (A)

D: Andrzej Wajda

Eaten Alive!

Mangiati vivi!

(USA: Doomed to Die)

(aka: The Emerald Jungle)

Italy - 1980 - 90m - col

Eagle (X) (cut)

D: Umberto Lenzi

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

USA - 1965 - 97m - bw

Tigon (X)

D: Russ Meyer

Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers

USA - 1968 - 71m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Russ Meyer

Finnegans Chin

UK - 1981 - 87m - col

BFI

D: Malcolm Le Grice

Gallipoli

Australia - 1981 - 111m - col / scope

CIC (A)

D: Peter Weir

Heavy Metal

USA - 1981 - 90m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Gerald Potterton
Followed by: Heavy Metal 2000 (2000).
Dolby Stereo

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

USA - 1980 - 97m - col

New Realm (AA)

D: Robert Scheerer

I'm Coming Your Way

Orinoco: Prigioniere del sesso

(USA: Blood for Liberty)

(aka: Hotel Paradise)

(aka: Prison Sex)

(aka: The Sadist)

(aka: Savage Island)

(aka: Sex Slave)

Italy/Spain - 1979 - 101m - col

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Edoardo Mulargia [as: Tony Moore]

Improper Channels

Canada - 1979 - 91m - col

Rank (A)

D: Eric Till

Kozure ohkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma

[see: Shogun Assassin]

Lady Chatterley's Lover

UK/France - 1981 - 104m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X)

D: Just Jaeckin

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

USA - 1980 - 65m - bw

The Other Cinema

D: Connie Field

Light Years Away

Les années lumière

France/Switzerland - 1981 - 107m - col

Artificial Eye (AA)

D: Alain Tanner

Love Boccaccio Style

USA - 1971 - 72m - col

Productions Associates (X) (cut)

D: Sam Phillips

Maeve

UK - 1981 - 109m - col

BFI

D: Pat Murphy, John Davies

Mangiati vivi dai cannibali

[see: Eaten Alive!]

A Matter of Love

USA - 1978 - 87m - col

Hatton (X) (cut)

D: Chuck Vincent

Paternity

USA - 1981 - 93m - col

CIC (AA)

D: David Steinberg

Prince of the City

USA - 1981 - 167m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X)

D: Sidney Lumet

The Red Nights of the Gestapo

Le lunghe notti della Gestapo

(aka: The Long Nights of the Gestapo)

Italy - 1976 - 108m - col / scope

Tigon (X) (cut)

D: Fabio De Agostini
Rejected by the BBFC in 1979 when submitted by Federated, then passed with cuts in 1981. The uncensored version was 'approved' for video in 2010.

Return of the Secaucus Seven

USA - 1979 - 110m - col

Osiris

D: John Sayles

Shock Treatment

UK - 1981 - 94m - col

20th Century Fox (A)

D: Jim Sharman
Series: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1974, Aug/1975).
Dolby Stereo

Shogun Assassin

USA/Japan - 1972 and 1980 - 81m - col / scope

Facelift (X) (cut)

D: Robert Houston (and Kenji Misumi)
Comprised of footage from Lightning Swords of Death (1972, Dec/1974) and Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (子連れ狼　三途の川の乳母車, 1972).
Dolby Stereo

Southern Comfort

USA - 1981 - 106m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X)

D: Walter Hill

Ticket to Heaven

Canada - 1981 - 108m - col

Miracle (AA)

D: Ralph L. Thomas

Vice Squad

Brigade mondaine

(aka: Victims of Vice)

France - 1978 - 94m - col

New Realm (X)

D: Jacques Scandelari

Wolfen

USA - 1981 - 115m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X)

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

The World of Gilbert & George

UK - 1981 - 69m - col

Concord

D: Gilbert Proesch & George Passmore [as: Gilbert & George]