MFB: December 1984

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1984

Vol. 51 No. 611

Annie’s Coming Out

Australia - 1984 - 93m - col

Enterprise (PG)

D: Gil Brealey

Le bal

France/Italy/Algeria - 1982 - 112m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (PG)

D: Ettore Scola

Bolero

USA - 1984 - 104m - col

Cannon (18)

D: John Derek
Dolby Stereo

Chastnaya zhizn

[see: Private Life]

A Christmas Carol

UK (TV) - 1984 - 101m - col

Enterprise (U)

D: Clive Donner
Dolby Stereo

Desires of a Nymphomaniac

La frigida y la viciosa

(aka: Frigid Fantasies)

Spain - 1981 - 94m - col

Tigon (18) (cut)

D: Carlos Aured

Emmanuelle Goes to Cannes

Emmanuelle à Cannes

France - 1980 - 84m - col

Transworld (18) (cut)

D: Jean-Marie Pallardy

Erotic Fantasies

Proibito erotico

(USA: Eros Perversion)

(aka: Perverse Analysis III)

Italy/UK - 1978 - 98m - col

Transworld (18) (cut)

D: Luigi Batzella [as: Paul Selvin], Derek Ford

Full Moon in Paris

Les nuits de la pleine lune

France - 1984 - 101m - col

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Eric Rohmer

Ghost Busters

USA - 1984 - 105m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (PG)

D: Ivan Reitman
35mm and 70mm release prints.
Followed by: Ghostbusters II (1989, Dec/1989).
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Give My Regards to Broad Street

UK - 1984 - 108m - col

20th Century Fox (PG)

D: Peter Webb
Dolby Stereo

The Glitter Dome

USA (TV) - 1984 - 94m - col

Thorn EMI (15) (cut)

D: Stuart Margolin

Gremlins

USA - 1984 - 106m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (15)

D: Joe Dante
35mm and 70mm release prints.
Followed by: Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, Aug/1990).
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting

L’hypothèse du tableau volé

France - 1978 - 66m - bw

BFI

D: Râúl Ruiz

The Killing Fields

UK - 1984 - 142m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (15)

D: Roland Joffé
Dolby Stereo

The Last Starfighter

USA - 1984 - 101m - col / scope

Miracle / Videoform (PG)

D: Nick Castle
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Love on the Ground

L’amour par terre

France - 1984 - 127m/169m - col

Cannon / Gala (15)

D: Jacques Rivette

Making the Grade

(aka: The Last American Preppy)

USA - 1984 - 104m - col

Cannon (15)

D: Dorian Walker
Dolby Stereo

Metropolis

Germany - 1926 - silent - bw

Wardour (A) (cut)

D: Fritz Lang
Also reviewed: Apr 1976.

Naughty Blue Knickers

Les folies d’Élodie

(USA: Secrets of the Satin Blues)

(aka: The Follies of Elodie)

France - 1981 - 91m - col

New Realm (18) (cut)

D: André Génovès

Nineteen Eighty-Four

UK - 1984 - 110m - col

20th Century Fox (15)

D: Michael Radford

Private Life

Частная жизнь

USSR - 1983 - 104m - col

Contemporary (PG)

D: Yuli Raizman

Scarred

USA - 1983 - 85m - col

Black Cat / VideoForm (18)

D: Rose-Marie Turko

Success is the Best Revenge

UK/France - 1984 - 91m - col

BFI (15)

D: Jerzy Skolimowski

Three Crowns of the Sailor

Les trois couronnes du matelot

France - 1983 - 122m - bw and col

BFI (15)

D: Râúl Ruiz