MFB: May 1982

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

May 1982

Vol. 49 No. 580

The Animals Film

UK/USA - 1981 - 136m - col

Blue Dolphin (AA)

D: Victor Schonfeld, Myriam Alaux

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

New Zealand - 1980 - 108m - col / scope

Enterprise (A)

D: John Laing

Blind Spot

Die Reise nach Lyon

W.Germany - 1980 - 111m - col

Circles

D: Claudia von Alemann

Bloody Moon

Die Säge des Todes

W.Germany - 1981 - 85m - col

Amanda (X) (cut)

D: Jesús Franco

The Blot

USA - 1921 - silent - bw

Circles

D: Lois Weber

Das Boot

(aka: The Boat)

W.Germany (TV) - 1981 - 293m/209m/149m - 3 episodes - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (AA)

D: Wolfgang Petersen
35mm and 70mm release prints.
Produced for TV, but released internationally in a variety of condensed editions, in cinemas and on home video.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Circle of Deceit

Die Fälschung

W.Germany/France - 1981 - 109m - col

UIP (X)

D: Volker Schlöndorff
Dolby Stereo

City of the Living Dead

Paura nella città dei morti viventi

(USA: The Gates of Hell)

Italy - 1980 - 93m - col

Eagle (X) (cut)

D: Lucio Fulci

Clarence and Angel

USA - 1980 - 72m - col

Ritzy Cinema

D: Robert Gardner

Clean Slate
Coup de torchon

France - 1981 - 128m - col

Curzon (AA)

D: Bertrand Tavernier
Dolby Stereo

El Salvador: Another Vietnam

USA - 1981 - 50m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Glenn Silber, Tete Vasconcellos

Evil Under the Sun

UK - 1981 - 117m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (A)

D: Guy Hamilton
Series: Murder on the Orient Express (1974, Dec/1974).

The Extraordinary Adventures of the Mouse and His Child
The Mouse and His Child

USA - 1977 - 83m - col
Ambassador (U)
D: Charles Swenson, Fred Wolf

An Eye for an Eye

USA - 1981 - 104m - col

Barber (X)

D: Steve Carver

Friend or Foe

UK - 1981 - 70m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: John Krish

The Grass is Singing

(USA: Killing Heat)

Zambia/Sweden - 1981 - 109m - col

Mainline (A)

D: Michael Raeburn

Home-Made Melodrama

UK - 1982 - 51m - col

Circles

D: Jacqui Duckworth

Ikimono no kiroku

[see: I Live in Fear]

I Live in Fear

生きものの記録

Japan - 1955 - 113m - bw

Cinegate (A)

D: Akira Kurosawa

The Inquisitor

Garde à vue

France - 1981 - 88m - col

Gala (AA)

D: Claude Miller

Mad Max 2

(USA: The Road Warrior)

Australia - 1981 - 96m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (X)

D: George Miller
35mm and 70mm release prints.
Series: Mad Max (1979, Nov/1979).
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Making Love

USA - 1982 - 112m - col

20th Century Fox (X)

D: Arthur Hiller

Missing

USA - 1982 - 122m - col

UIP (AA)

D: Costa-Gavras

Nightshift

UK - 1981 - 67m - col

Circles

D: Robina Rose

No Mercy, No Future

Die Berührte

W.Germany - 1981 - 108m - col

Mainline (X)

D: Helma Sanders-Brahms

Roadgames

Australia - 1981 - 100m - col / scope

Barber (AA)

D: Richard Franklin

Sexboat

USA - 1980 - 81m - col

Topart (X) (cut)

D: David I. Frazer, Svetlana

Somebody’s Daughter

UK - 1978 - 149m - 5 episodes - bw

Concord

D: Noël Hardy

Talk Naughty to Me
Champagne for Breakfast

USA - 1980 - 102m - col
Topart (X) (cut)
D: Chris Warfield

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

UK - 1981 - 94m - col

Goldcrest (AA)

D: Christopher Petit

Vice Squad

USA - 1981 - 98m - col

Brent Walker (X) (cut)

D: Gary A. Sherman

Visiting Hours

Canada - 1981 - 105m - col

20th Century Fox (X) (cut)

D: Jean-Claude Lord

The War at Home

USA - 1979 - 99m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Glenn Silber, Barry Alexander Brown