MFB: February 1986

Introduction for newcomers

Before Stonewall

Monthly Film Bulletin

February 1986

Vol. 53 No. 625

Alice in Wonderland

USA/France/UK - 1949 - 83m - col

Electric (U)

D: Dallas Bower

All the King’s Men

USA - 1949 - 109m - bw

Columbia (A) (cut)

D: Robert Rossen
Also reviewed: Mar-Apr 1950.

Before Stonewall

USA - 1984 - 87m - col and bw

The Other Cinema (15)

D: Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg

Best Defense

USA - 1984 - 94m - col

UIP (15) (cut)

D: Willard Huyck

Car Trouble

UK - 1985 - 93m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (18)

D: David Green
Dolby Stereo

Certain Fury

USA - 1985 - 86m - col

Medusa (18)

D: Stephen Gyllenhaal

Commando

USA - 1985 - 90m - col

20th Century Fox (18) (cut)

D: Mark L. Lester
Dolby Stereo

Le Cop

Les ripoux

(USA: My New Partner)

France - 1984 - 107m - col

Cannon (18)

D: Claude Zidi
Followed by: Le Cop 2 (1989, Jul/1991), Ripoux 3 (2003).

The Crazy Family

逆噴射家族

Japan - 1984 - 107m - col

The Other Cinema (18)

D: Sogo Ishii

Death in a French Garden

Péril en la demeure

(USA: Peril)

France - 1985 - 101m - col

Artificial Eye (18)

D: Michel Deville

Django

Italy/Spain - 1966 - 92m - col

V: Inter-Ocean (pre-VRA)

D: Sergio Corbucci
Rejected for cinema when submitted by Butcher's in 1969, then released on video by Inter-Ocean in 1980 (pre-VRA). The film was 'approved' uncut for video in 1993.
Followed by: Django 2: Il grande ritorno (1987).

Fire Festival

火まつり

Japan - 1984 - 120m - col

Recorded Releasing (18) (cut)

D: Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Gyakufunsha kazoku

[see: Crazy Family, The]

Himatsuri

[see: Fire Festival]

The Hustler

USA - 1961 - 135m - bw / scope

20th Century Fox (X)

D: Robert Rossen
Also reviewed: Dec 1961.
Followed by: The Color of Money (1986, Feb/1987).

I Be Done Been Was Is

USA - 1983 - 58m - col

Cinema of Women

D: Debra J. Robinson

Jagged Edge

USA - 1985 - 109m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (18)

D: Richard Marquand
Dolby Stereo

The Journey of Natty Gann

USA - 1985 - 101m - col / scope

Walt Disney (PG)

D: Jeremy Kagan
Dolby Stereo

No Surrender

UK - 1985 - 104m - col

Palace (15)

D: Peter Smith
Dolby Stereo

Rocky IV

USA - 1985 - 91m - col

UIP (PG)

D: Sylvester Stallone
35mm and 70mm release prints.
Series: Rocky (1976, Apr/1977).
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

The Sure Thing

USA - 1984 - 94m - col

Rank (15)

D: Rob Reiner

Teen Wolf

USA - 1985 - 92m - col

Entertainment (PG) (cut)

D: Rod Daniel
Followed by: Teen Wolf Too (1987, Feb/1988).