MFB: November 1985

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

November 1985

Vol. 52 No. 622

Agonia

[see: Agony]

Agony
Агония
(aka: Rasputin)
USSR - 1975 - 148m - col and bw / scope
Thorn EMI (PG)
D: Alem Klimov

American Warrior
American Ninja

USA - 1985 - 95m - col

Cannon (18) (cut)

D: Sam Firstenberg
Followed by: American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987), American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1988), American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1990), American Ninja V (1992).

Beyond the Walls

מאחורי הסורגים

Israel - 1984 - 103m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (18)

D: Uri Barbash

The Bride

UK/France - 1985 - 119m - col

Columbia-EMI-Warner (15)

D: Franc Roddam
Dolby Stereo

Came a Hot Friday

New Zealand - 1984 - 101m - col

Miracle (PG)

D: Ian Mune
Dolby Stereo

Beyond the Walls

Colonel Redl

Redl ezredes

Hungary/W.Germany/Austria - 1984 - 149m - col

Cannon / Gala (15)

D: István Szabó

Defence of the Realm

UK - 1985 - 96m - col

Rank (PG)

D: David Drury

The Emerald Forest

UK - 1985 - 114m - col / scope

Rank (15)

D: John Boorman
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

The Goonies

USA - 1985 - 114m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (PG) (cut)

D: Richard Donner
35mm and 70mm release prints.
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

Gulag

USA - 1984 - 119m - col

Miracle (15)

D: Roger Young

The Inheritance

L’eredità Ferramonti

Italy - 1976 - 124m - col / scope

Topart (18)

D: Mauro Bolognini

Insatiable Alicia and the Marquis

El marqués: La menor y el travesti

Spain - 1982 - 76m - col

Eagle (18) (cut)

D: Alfonso Balcázar [as: Al Bagram]

My Beautiful Laundrette

Invasion U.S.A.

USA - 1985 - 107m - col

Cannon (18) (cut)

D: Joseph Zito
Dolby Stereo

Looker

USA - 1981 - 94m - col / scope

V: Warner (15)

D: Michael Crichton
Dolby Stereo

Love at First Gulp
Dracula Exotica

USA - 1980 - 80m - col
Topart (18) (cut)
D: Warren Evans

Me’Achorei Hasoragim

[see: Beyond the Walls]

Mother’s Day

USA - 1980 - 98m - col

V: VTC (pre-VRA)

D: Charles Kaufman
Rejected by the BBFC when submitted by Target in 1980, but released on video by VTC in 1984, pre-VRA. 'Approved' for video in 2015.

My Beautiful Laundrette

UK - 1985 - 97m - col

Mainline (15)

D: Stephen Frears

The Picture of Dorian Gray

USA - 1945 - 109m - bw and col

MGM (A)

D: Albert Lewin
Also reviewed: May 1945.

Plenty

USA - 1985 - 124m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (15)

D: Fred Schepisi
Dolby Stereo

Prizzi’s Honor

USA - 1985 - 129m - col

Rank (15)

D: John Huston
Dolby Stereo

Pumping Iron II: The Women

USA - 1984 - 107m - col

Blue Dolphin (PG)

D: George Butler
Series: Pumping Iron (1976, Nov/1977).
Dolby Stereo

Dracula Exotica

Red Sonja

USA - 1985 - 89m - col / scope

Columbia-EMI-Warner (PG) (cut)

D: Richard Fleischer

Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told

USA - 1965 - 81m - bw

V: Hikon (pre-VRA)

D: Jack Hill

The Supergrass

UK - 1985 - 107m - col

Recorded Releasing (15)

D: Peter Richardson
Dolby Stereo

Thunder

(aka: Thunder Warriors)

Italy - 1983 - 86m - col / scope

Entertainment (18) (cut)

D: Fabrizio De Angelis [as: Larry Ludman]
Followed by: Thunder II (1987), Thunder III (1988).
Dolby Stereo

Turtle Diary

UK - 1985 - 96m - col

Rank (PG)

D: John Irvin
Dolby Stereo

Weird Science

USA - 1985 - 94m - col

UIP (15)

D: John Hughes
Dolby Stereo