Tuesday, 28 February 2017

MFB: December 1988



The Bedroom Window

Monthly Film Bulletin
December 1988
Vol. 55 No. 659




BAT 21
USA - 1988 - 105m - col
Guild (15)
D: Peter Markle
Dolby Stereo

The Bedroom Window
USA - 1987 - 113m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (15)
D: Curtis Hanson

Black Eagle
USA - 1988 - 104m - col
VPD / Winstone (15)
D: Eric Karson

Blue Jean Cop
Shakedown
USA - 1988 - 96m - col
Rank (18)
D: James Glickenhaus
Dolby Stereo

Call Me
USA - 1987 - 98m - col
Vestron (18) (cut)
D: Sollace Mitchell

The Everlasting Secret Family
Australia - 1987 - 93m - col / scope
Cannon (18)
D: Michael Thornhill

Heat
USA - 1986 - 101m - col
V: Warner (18)
D: Dick Richards

High Spirits
USA - 1988 - 96m - col
Palace (15)
D: Neil Jordan
Dolby Stereo SR

High Tide
Australia - 1987 - 104m - col
Ritzy
D: Gillian Armstrong

Just Ask for Diamond
(USA: Diamond’s Edge)
UK - 1988 - 94m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Stephen Bayly




Kansas
USA - 1988 - 113m - col / scope
Entertainment (15)
D: David Stevens
Dolby Stereo

Marusa no onna
[see: Taxing Woman, A]

The Nature of the Beast
UK - 1988 - 96m - col
Cannon (PG)
D: Franco Rosso
Dolby Stereo

Qingchun ji
[see: Sacrificed Youth]

Sacrificed Youth
青春祭
China - 1985 - 96m - col
Artificial Eye (PG)
D: Zhang Nuanxin

Scrooged
USA - 1988 - 101m - col
UIP (PG)
D: Richard Donner
Dolby Stereo SR

Stand and Deliver
USA - 1988 - 103m - col
Warner (15)
D: Ramon Menendez

Sunset
USA - 1988 - 107m - col / scope
Columbia TriStar (15)
D: Blake Edwards
Dolby Stereo

A Taxing Woman
マルサの女
Japan - 1987 - 127m - col
Artificial Eye (18)
D: Jūzō Itami
Followed by: A Taxing Woman Returns (マルサの女2, 1988).

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
USA - 1988 - 111m - col / scope
UIP (PG)
D: Francis Ford Coppola
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo SR

U2 Rattle and Hum
USA - 1988 - 99m - col and bw
UIP (15)
D: Phil Joanou
Dolby Stereo

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
USA - 1988 - 104m - col
Warner (PG)
D: Robert Zemeckis
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Willow
USA - 1988 - 126m - col / scope
UIP (PG) (cut)
D: Ron Howard
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo SR

MFB: November 1988




Monthly Film Bulletin
November 1988
Vol. 55 No. 658




18 Again!
USA - 1988 - 100m - col
Entertainment (PG)
D: Paul Flaherty

Alice
Něco z Alenky
Czechoslovakia/Switzerland/UK/W.Germany - 1988 - 85m - col
ICA (PG)
D: Jan Švankmajer

Big Time
USA - 1988 - 87m - col
Recorded Releasing (PG)
D: Chris Blum

Bird
USA - 1988 - 160m - col
Warner (15)
D: Clint Eastwood
Dolby Stereo

Colors
USA - 1988 - 121m - col
Rank (18)
D: Dennis Hopper
Dolby Stereo SR

Consuming Passions
UK/USA - 1988 - 98m - col
Vestron (15)
D: Giles Foster
Dolby Stereo

The Dawning
UK - 1988 - 97m - col
Entertainment (PG)
D: Robert Knights
Dolby Stereo

Death Japanese Style
お葬式
(aka: The Funeral)
Japan - 1984 - 124m - col and bw
Electric (18)
D: Jūzō Itami

Dream Demon
UK - 1988 - 89m - col
Palace (18)
D: Harley Cokeliss
Dolby Stereo

The Fruit Machine
(USA: Wonderland)
UK - 1988 - 108m - col
Vestron (15)
D: Philip Saville
Dolby Stereo

The House on Carroll Street
USA - 1987 - 101m - col
Rank (PG)
D: Peter Yates




Imagine
USA - 1988 - 106m - col
Warner (15)
D: Andrew Solt
Dolby Stereo

Law of Desire
La ley del deseo
Spain - 1987 - 100m - col
The Other Cinema (18)
D: Pedro Almodóvar

Les Patterson Saves the World
Australia - 1987 - 94m - col / scope
Recorded Releasing (15)
D: George Miller
Dolby Stereo

The Light
Yeelen
(aka: Brightness)
Mali - 1987 - 106m - col
Artificial Eye (PG)
D: Souleymane Cissé

The Lighthorsemen
Australia - 1987 - 131m - col / scope
Medusa (PG) (cut)
D: Simon Wincer
Dolby Stereo

Midnight Crossing
USA - 1987 - 104m - col
Vestron (18)
D: Roger Holzberg
Dolby Stereo

Nico
Above the Law
USA - 1988 - 99m - col
Warner (18) (cut)
D: Andrew Davis
Dolby Stereo

Ososhiki
[see: Death Japanese Style]

The Seventh Sign
USA - 1988 - 97m - col / scope
Columbia TriStar (15)
D: Carl Schultz
Dolby Stereo

A Summer Story
UK - 1987 - 96m - col
Warner (15)
D: Piers Haggard
Dolby Stereo

Taffin
UK/USA - 1987 - 96m - col
Vestron (18)
D: Francis Megahy

Tiger Warsaw
USA - 1987 - 93m - col
Recorded Releasing (15)
D: Amin Q. Chaudhri

To Kill a Priest
USA/France - 1988 - 117m - col / scope
Columbia TriStar (15) (cut)
D: Agnieszka Holland
Dolby Stereo

Veronico Cruz
La deuda interna
(aka: The Debt)
Argentina/UK - 1987 - 96m - col
Recorded Releasing (PG)
D: Miguel Pereira

Monday, 27 February 2017

MFB: October 1988




Monthly Film Bulletin
October 1988
Vol. 55 No. 657




68
USA - 1988 - 98m - col
Entertainment (15)
D: Steven Kovacs

Au revoir les enfants
France/W.Germany - 1987 - 104m - col
Curzon (PG)
D: Louis Malle
Dolby Stereo

Backfire
USA - 1987 - 91m - col
Virgin (18)
D: Gilbert Cates

Backlash
Australia - 1986 - 90m - col
Blue Dolphin
D: Bill Bennett
Dolby Stereo

Bagdad Café
Out of Rosenheim
W.Germany - 1987 - 108m - col
Mainline (PG)
D: Percy Adlon

Big
USA - 1988 - 104m - col
20th Century Fox (PG)
D: Penny Marshall
Dolby Stereo

Distant Voices, Still Lives
UK - 1988 - 84m - col
BFI (15)
D: Terence Davies
Dolby Stereo




Drowning by Numbers
UK - 1988 - 119m - col
Recorded Releasing (18)
D: Peter Greenaway
Dolby Stereo

Family Viewing
Canada - 1987 - 86m - col
The Other Cinema (18)
D: Atom Egoyan

A Fish Called Wanda
UK - 1988 - 108m - col
UIP (15)
D: Charles Crichton

Good Morning, Vietnam
USA - 1987 - 108m - col
Warner (15)
D: Barry Levinson
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Hanna’s War
USA - 1988 - 148m - col / scope
Cannon (15)
D: Menahem Golan
Ultra-Stereo

The Last Temptation of Christ
USA/Canada - 1988 - 163m - col
UIP (18)
D: Martin Scorsese
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Masquerade
USA - 1988 - 91m - col
UIP (18)
D: Bob Swaim
Dolby Stereo

Midnight Run
USA - 1988 - 126m - col
UIP (15) (cut)
D: Martin Brest
Dolby Stereo




My Demon Lover
USA - 1987 - 87m - col
Palace (15)
D: Charlie Loventhal

No Man’s Land
USA - 1987 - 106m - col
Rank (15)
D: Peter Werner
Dolby Stereo

Poltergeist III
USA - 1988 - 98m - col
UIP (15)
D: Gary Sherman
Series: Poltergeist (1982, Sep/1982).
Dolby Stereo

The Principal
USA - 1987 - 110m - col
Columbia TriStar (18)
D: Christopher Cain
Dolby Stereo

The Running Man
USA - 1987 - 101m - col
Rank (18)
D: Paul Michael Glaser
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

The Sicilian
USA - 1987 - 146m/119m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (15)
D: Michael Cimino
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

The Wizard of Speed and Time
USA - 1988 - 98m - col
Medusa (PG)
D: Mike Jittlov
Dolby Stereo

MFB: September 1988




Monthly Film Bulletin
September 1988
Vol. 55 No. 656




And God Created Woman
USA - 1987 - 98m - col
Vestron (18)
D: Roger Vadim
Dolby Stereo

Big Business
USA - 1988 - 98m - col
Warner (PG)
D: Jim Abrahams
Dolby Stereo

Biloxi Blues
USA - 1987 - 107m - col / scope
UIP (15)
D: Mike Nichols
Series: Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986, May/1987).
Dolby Stereo

Braddock: Missing in Action III
USA - 1988 - 103m - col
Cannon (18)
D: Aaron Norris
Series: Missing in Action (1984, Apr/1985).

Buster
UK - 1988 - 102m - col
Vestron (15)
D: David Green
Dolby Stereo

The Deceivers
UK/India - 1988 - 103m - col
Entertainment (15)
D: Nicholas Meyer
Dolby Stereo

Frantic
USA - 1988 - 120m - col
Warner (15)
D: Roman Polanski
Dolby Stereo

George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
USA - 1982 - 60m - col
BFI
D: Gustavo Vazquez O., David Hallinger

Haizi wang
[see: King of the Children]

Jimmy Reardon
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
USA - 1988 - 93m - col
Entertainment (15)
D: William Richert
Dolby Stereo

King of the Children
孩子王
China - 1987 - 106m - col
ICA (15)
D: Chen Kaige


King of the Children

Long Live the Lady!
Lunga vita alla signora!
Italy - 1987 - 115m - col
Artificial Eye (15)
D: Ermanno Olmi

The Manchurian Candidate
USA - 1962 - 126m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: John Frankenheimer
Also reviewed: Dec 1962.

Manifesto
USA - 1988 - 96m - col
Cannon (18)
D: Dusan Makavejev

My Little Girl
USA - 1986 - 117m - col
Entertainment (15)
D: Connie Kaiserman

Pathfinder
Ofelaš
Norway - 1987 - 86m - col / scope
Guild (15)
D: Nils Gaup
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Rambo III
USA - 1988 - 102m - col / scope
Columbia TriStar (18) (cut)
D: Peter MacDonald
Series: First Blood (1982, Jan/1983).
Dolby Stereo SR

Shag
USA - 1987 - 98m - col
Palace (15)
D: Zelda Barron
Dolby Stereo

She Must Be Seeing Things
USA - 1987 - 91m - col
The Other Cinema (18)
D: Sheila McLaughlin

Stars and Bars
USA - 1988 - 94m - col
Columbia TriStar (15)
D: Pat O’Connor
Dolby Stereo

Sticky Fingers
USA - 1988 - 97m - col
Virgin (15)
D: Catlin Adams

Vincent
Australia - 1987 - 105m - col
Artificial Eye (PG)
D: Paul Cox

Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh
[see: Vincent]