MFB: December 1983

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1983

Vol. 50 No. 599

Against the Grain

UK - 1983 - 52m - col

Concord

D: Margaret Dickinson

Alan Bush: A Life

UK - 1983 - 64m - col

Concord

D: Anna Ambrose

Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

USA - 1982 - 60m - bw and col

BFI

D: Charles Musser

Big Meat Eater

Canada - 1982 - 82m - col

Palace (15)

D: Chris Windsor

Brainstorm

USA - 1983 - 106m - col / 1.66:1 + Super Panavision 70

UIP (15)

D: Douglas Trumbull
Mono + 4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Conversations With Willard Van Dyke

USA - 1981 - 58m - col

BFI

D: Amalie R. Rothschild

Destiny

UK (TV) - 1978 - 109m - col

V: BFI (pre-VRA)

D: Mike Newell

House of Evil
The House on Sorority Row

USA - 1982 - 92m - col

Miracle (18) (cut)

D: Mark Rosman

Jaws 3-D

(aka: Jaws III)

USA - 1983 - 99m - col / scope / 3-D

UIP (PG) (cut)

D: Joe Alves
Series: Jaws (1975, Dec/1975).
Dolby Stereo

King Blank

USA - 1982 - 72m - bw

BFI

D: Michael Oblowitz

Krull

UK - 1983 - 121m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (PG)

D: Peter Yates
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

The Leopard

Il gattopardo

Italy/France - 1962 - 205m - col / Super Technirama 70

20th Century Fox (U)

D: Luchino Visconti
Also reviewed: Jan 1964.

Liquid Sky

USA - 1982 - 112m - col

Virgin (18)

D: Slava Tsukerman

The Lonely Lady

USA - 1982 - 92m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (18) (cut)

D: Peter Sasdy

Never Cry Wolf

USA - 1983 - 105m - col

Walt Disney (PG)

D: Carroll Ballard
Dolby Stereo

Never Say Never Again

UK - 1983 - 134m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (PG) (cut)

D: Irvin Kershner
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Nightmares

USA - 1983 - 99m - col

UIP (15)

D: Joseph Sargent

Nostalgia

Nostalghia

Italy - 1983 - 126m - col

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Andrei Tarkovsky

The Osterman Weekend

USA - 1983 - 105m - col

20th Century Fox (18)

D: Sam Peckinpah

The Savage is Loose

USA - 1974 - 114m - col / scope

V: Home Video Productions (pre-VRA)

D: George C. Scott

Spetters

Netherlands - 1980 - 115m - col

Embassy (18) (cut)

D: Paul Verhoeven

A Station for Two

Вокзал для двоих

(aka: A Railway Station for Two)

USSR - 1983 - 141m - col

Rank (PG)

D: Eldar Ryazanov

Vokzal dlya dvoikh

[see: Railway Station for Two, A]