Contents Cover:

Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones & Richard Pryor in The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.

Features:

The Saga of Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars - Can a black film break the audience color line? Pix include Billy Dee Williams, Bertha DeWitt, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Stan Shaw, Rico Dawson, Marcia McBroom.
The Other Side of Orson Welles. Pix include Peter Bogdanovich, John Huston, Oja Kodar filming The Other Side of the Wind.

The Image Makers - Hollywood's great studio photographers created portraits for millions of fans. Pix include: Jean Harlow by George Hurrell. Marlene Dietrich byEugene Robert Richee. Tallulah Bankhead. Buster Keaton by Clarence Bull. Clara Bow by Eugene Robert Richee.

No Violence, No Profanity, No Nudity - Plagued by commercial interruptions, movies on television are at the mercy of the networks' three big No-Noes. Pix include: Brenda Vaccaro & Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy. Sophia Loren in Two Women. Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde.

Hail to the Chief - There was a time when "Going Out to the Coast" meant a luxurious three-day trip on one of the crack specials. A lot happened on those trains ... Pix include: Carole Lombard & John Barrymore in Twentieth Century. Ginger Rogers.

Satire on Saturday Night. Pix include: Chevy Chase. Raquel Welch & Gilda Radner. Lorne Michaels. Laraine Newman. Garrett Morris. John Belushi. Dan Aykroyd.

Windows on a Made-Up World - American Movies and the Cultural Past. Includes pic of Fred Astaire in Swing Time.
Regular Monthly Departments:

Festival Report - Cannes. Pix include: Robert DeNiro & Dominique Sanda in 1900. Anne Lambert in Picnic At Hanging Rock. Dennis Hopper in Tracks.

McMurtry on the Movies (by Larry McMurtry) - All the President's Men, Seven Beauties, History, Innocence, Guilt, Redemption, and the Star System. Includes pic of Robert Redford & Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men.
Dialogue on Film - Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond. Pix include: Carol Burnett in The Front Page. Jack Lemmon. Marilyn Monroe & Tom Ewell in The Seven Year Itch. Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray & Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity. Ray Milland & Howard Da Silva in The Lost Weekend. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. William Holden in Stalag 17. Marlene Dietrich in A Foreign Affair.

Contents Features:

The Last of the Nine Old Men - The Nine Old Men was Walt Disney's term for his chief team of animators. Pix include Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark, Ward Kimball, John Lounsbery, Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Frank Thomas, Eric Larson, Oliver Johnston, John Culhane.

New Grub Street-West - When scripts are written for television, there is a curious process that intervenes between the author's works and what is broadcast.

"Withdraw the Picture!" the Commissioner Ordered - The Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling on The Miracle. For Lillian Gerard it was the end of a struggle with censorship that started two years earlier at her New York cinema, The Paris. Includes pic of Anna Magnani in The Miracle.

Has Television Become the Real Thing? - Reflections on the past season evoke some thoughts on television's use of reality. Pix include: LeVar Burton in Roots. Charles Bronson in Raid on Entebbe. Stefan Gierasch, Burt Lancaster, Richard Dreyfus & Harris Yulin in Victory at Entebbe. Penny Marshall & Jaclyn Smith competing in The Battle of the Netword Stars. Farrah Fawcett (Majors).

Going Deeper With MacNeil and Lehrer - With a lively format and a lot more than a few lines of commentary, the Report gives us what the nightly news can't. Pix include Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer.

Heartbreak Hollywood - After the stardom, there is the legend. For the star, unfortunately, that's not enough. Pix include: Mae Murray in The Merry Widow. Rita Hayworth in Gilda. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.


Regular Monthly Departments:

McMurtry on the Movies (By Larry McMurtry) - The Disappearance of Love.

Focus on Education (By Sam Kula) - The Canadian Curriculum.

Dialogue on Film - Norman Lear interviewed. Pix include: Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton in All In the Family. Bea Arthur & Bill Macy in Maude. Esther Rolle & Ja'net DuBois in Good Times. Richard Crenna & Bernadette Peters in All's Fair. Bob Newhart, Judith Lowry & Graham Jarvis in Cold Turkey. Maureen O'Sullivan & Paul Ford in Never Too Late.
Jason Robards Jr. & Norman Wisdom in The Night They Raided Minsky's. Ewa Aulin in Start the Revolution Without Me. Louise Lasser & Victor Killian in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Dick Van Dyke, Jean Simmons & Jason Robards Jr. in Divorce, American Style. Tony Bill & Frank Sinatra in Come Blow Your Horn.

Festival Report: London. Includes pic of Elena Solavey in The Slave of Love.

Explorations: Ann Arbor Experimental - Two Views (by Ellen Frank & Edgar Daniels).

Contents The Mel Brooks Memos (article by Gene Lees); Were Those The Days? (article by John Russell Taylor); The Day The Silents Stopped (article by Larry Swindell); Interview: Richard Brooks; Notes On Some European Directors: Bertolucci, Schroeter, Herzog (article by Alan Greenberg); Star-Spangled Studio (article on government-funded film-making by Alex Ward); Commercials: Another Kind Of Film-Making (article by Bruce Cook); Columns: McMurtry On The Movies (by Larry McMurtry); Focus On Education (by Stephen Zito); Sound Track (by Robert Fiedel); Berlin Festival Report (by David Robinson); Book Reviews: including a biography of David Sarnoff and "The Camera Never Blinks" by Dan Rather.

Contents COVER:

John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John


FEATURES :

Musical GREASE - They had hoods in those days; they wore taps, pegged pants, and they bullied the girls. The movie of GREASE brings it back with song and dance (Pix include John Travolta, Stockard Channing, Jamie Donnelly, Dinah Manoff, Olivia Newton-John, director Randal Kleiser, choreographer Patricia Birch).

MGM. The Lion Finds New Game - Production at the famous studio is on the rise, and there's a Las Vegas connection (Pix include Mark Hamill, Genevieve Bujold, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, William Powell, Mryna Loy, Porter Hall).

Good Morning, Lanesville - From Lanesville, New York, the people with portapaks bring you Harriet, a docufantasy, and Harold's Bar Mitzvah, Audience, maybe three hundred. But why is this important? (Pix include Joel Gold, Bart Friedman, Shigeko Kubota).

ROBERT ASHLEY - Studs Terkel of the Avant Garde.

Dialogue on Film: GEORGE CUKOR discusses the fine art of dealing with stars - males, females and couples (Pix include Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Florence Nash, Phyllis Povah, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Hepburn, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Judy Halliday, Robert Taylor, John Barrymore, Rex Harrison, Cary Grant, Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Broderick Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Melvyn Douglas, Aldo Ray, Ruth Hussey, James Stewart, Cicely Tyson, Elizabeth Taylor).

My Criticism, My Politics (by Andrew Sarris) - The noted critic examines the war inside himself.

About Television: Music and the Medium.

The Noble Hours of Brazilian Television (Pix include Isabel Ribeiro, Elza Gomes, Bete Faria, Carlos Poyart, Christiane Torloni, Francisco Cuoco, Laura Soveral).

Letter From a Small Island (by Elsa Barnuow) - What happens when a television miniseries disembarks its cast and crew on an out-of-the-way island?

Festival Report: New York - Lincoln Center's annual film festival has become a cultural obligation (Pix include Bruno Ganz, Angela Molina).

Inner Circles: A Look at the Laurels - Top screenwriters are honored by their peers.

Explorations: The Spaced-Out World of DOUGLAS TRUMBULL.

Contents COVER:

Richard Gere & Chick Vennera in Yanks


FEATURES :

The Rise of RICHARD GERE (Pix include Diane Keaton, Lisa Eichhorn, Wendy Morgan).
On the Make with AMERICAN GIGOLO (Pix include Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton).
FRANK GIFFORD - The Gentleman Caller (Pix include Don Meredith, Howard Cosell).
MARK RAPPAPORT - Man on a Shoestring (Pix include Charles Ludlam, Michael Burg, Lina Todd, Peter Evans, Ellen McElduff).

DORE SCHARY Remembers MGM (Part 1) - Schary chronicles his encounters with such powers as Harry Rapf, L.B. Meyer, and Nicholas Schenck (Pix include Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Robert Young).

TESS - ROMAN POLANSKI in Hardy Country - The Polish director has used the Normandy countryside to evoke the English classic Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Pix include Nastassia Kinski, Peter Firth).

NASTASSIA KINSKI - A Perfect Tess.

JAMES EARL JONES Opens in PARIS (Pix include Billy Dee Williams, Joel Fluellen).


DEPARTMENTS:

Dialogue on Film: ARTHUR HILLER talks about his Canadian origins, working with George C. Scott and Maximillian Schell, and some favorite movies (Pix include Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Maximillian Schell, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Peter O'Toole, Paddy Chayefsky, Julie Andrews, Robert Taylor, Rod Steiger, Billy Barty, Sandy Dennis, Jack Lemmon, Ali McGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Lee Grant, Walter Matthau).

About Television: An Iron Curtian of Sameness.

Point of View: Commercials - The Subtle Sell.

The Video Scene: Late developments in recorders, discs and cable.

AFI News

Periodicals

Contents Nijinsky, Summing up the Seventies, Astoria (NY's famous old studio) lives again, John Schlesinger.

Contents Thy Neighbour's Television (article by Edwin Diamond); The New Season: Promises, Promises (article by Robert Sklar); Coming: Soaps And Spin-Offs (article by Jay Eldridge); The Aesthetics Of Fright (article by Morris Dickstein); John Huston At 74: No Formulas (article/interview by Bernard Drew); Interview with Tony Bill; About Television (article by Martin Mayer; Letter From Rio (article by Mark Ginsburg); Lehman At Large (column by Ernest Lehman); Robert Breer's Animated World (article by J. Hoberman); Book Reviews: including reviews of Penelope Gilliatt's "Three Quarter Face" and Sidney Poitier's "This Life"; AFI News (regular column).

Contents COVER:

ISABELLE HUPPERT & KRIS KRISTOFFERSON


FEATURES :

MICHAEL CIMINO 's Way West - The director of The Deer Hunter has turned to the Johnson County War for a western called Heaven's Gate (Pix include Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston).

What WILL H. HAYS Begat - Fifty years of the Production Code (Pix include Mae West, Maggie McNamara, Jon Voight).
Waiting for GRETA GARBO - At seventy-five, the legend and the enigma remain.
The Non-Hollywood Hustle - For independent filmmakers, raising the money is more of a struggle than shooting the film.

GREGORY NAVA & ANNA THOMAS - They Made Their Films Their Way (Pix include Sheelagh Gilbey, William Bryan, Susannah Macmillan).

All the News That Isn't the News - Is television overplaying the news?

A Five-Year Sampler - Highlights from American Film (Pix include Faye Dunaway, John Wayne, Alec Guinness).


DEPARTMENTS:

Letters

Lehman at Large: I Can Dream, Can't I?

About Television: View From a Room In Tel Aviv

Take Two: Pagnol's Marseilles Trilogy

The Video Scene (Developments in programming & technology affecting the home viewer): A Premiere Approach / Have Video Camera, Will Travel

Books: Take Two: A Life in Movies and Politics by Philip Dunne / Moving Places by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

AFI News: Special Report - A new home for AFI-West

Periodicals.

Contents Excalibur Gambling on Chivalry, Robert DeNiro interview, creating a hit series, Timothy Hutton, A Wider World of Sports.

Contents Jane Fonda, Letters of Raymond Chandler, Hollywood Abroad--Market and Image, Johathan Kaplan, Cable TV.

Contents COVER:

KLAUS KINSKI


FEATURES :

Why Is This Man Smirking? - After making only pennies from heaven, STEVE MARTIN is counting on dollars from film noir.

My Dinner With Barry (by Robert Ward) - It's just a coupla Baltimore boys sitting around talking - about Diner (Pix include Robert Ward, Barry Levinson, Timothy Daly, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Kevin Bacon, Steve Guttenberg, Paul Reiser).

WERNER HERZOG The God of Wrath - The dream of Fitzcarraldo became a nightmare (Pix include Claudia Cardinale, Klaus Kinski, Mick Jagger).

War of the Wizards - There's no freeze on weapons in the escalating special effects race.
Caught in the Act - Video performance is making strange bedfellows of Robert Altman, Shirley Clarke, and Laurie Anderson

Dialogue on Film: MARK RYDELL talks about working with Katharine Hepburn, Marsha Mason, and Bette Midler (Pix include Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Midler, Steve McQueen).

Explorations: Back to Basics - ERNIE GEHR 's work explores the fundamental conditions of film itself.

The Video Scene: Mondo Video (Director John Waters chooses ten videos worth staying home for) / Scanlines (Video news and notes) / Trial By Tape (Cassettes in court are becoming as common as criminals).


OTHER CELEBRITIES PICTURED INCLUDE:

Ben Cross & Ian Charleson. Pia Zadora & John Waters. Pam Grier. Daniel J. Travanti & Veronica Hamel. Aileen Quinn (in an ad for Annie). Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward (in and ad for Save the Children fund). Kirstie Alley & Leonard Nimoy. Sidney Poitier & Gene Wilder. Liv Ullman.

Contents Disney's new image, Robin Williams 'Garp', Ordinary People, Renee Valente, Can movies kill?, Ted Turner.

Contents Luis Bunuel, Jack Lemmon, homosexuality in recent movies, 'Night flight', musicals, Scoring with Synthesizers.

Contents John Sayles, Wall Street goes to the movies, Carroll Ballard 'Never Cry Wolf', Time bandits, Lure of Trailers, BBC's War Game.

Contents Jackie Gleason, Marcel Ophuls, film history is bunk!, Dyan Cannon, Mitterrand's Medialand, Martin Scorsese.

Contents The Verdict' Sidney Lumet, Richard Price at the movies, Martin Sheen, Sneak Previews, lobby cards hobby, Couture Theory.

Contents Jessica Lange, M*A*S*H pulls the plug, Computer graphics--life after Tron?, Sergei Eisenstein, Que' Viva Mexico!, Rouben Mamoulian interview, documentaries.

Contents Gene Hackman, Future imperfect, Brazilian cinema, The star system, Brave new television sets, Richard Attenborough interview.

Contents Movies for minors big business, Glenda Garson, New male melodrama, Louis Gossett Jr., Public televisioin's Prime-time politics, Perils of Pay-Per-View, The Lady is Willing, Dustin Hoffman interview.

Contents COVER:

SUSAN SARANDON


FEATURES :

SUSAN SARANDON - Who is she this time? (Includes pics of Richard Dreyfuss, Catherine Daneuve)

Another Man's Method - While Lee Strasberg's name became a household word, Sanford Meisner was quietly training three generations of actors in his own acting style. (Includes pic of Meisner with Lillian Gish).

Art for Film's Sake - With films like Diva, Blade Runner and Days of Heaven borrowing techniques from painters and sculptors, suddenly the scenery is the star. (Includes pics of Brooke Adams, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tim Curry, Peter Hinwood, Barry Bostwick)

The Very Model of a Modern Minor Industry - Independent filmmaking in the United Kingdom is flourishing with help from the British Film Institute. This success may be its own undoing.

JULIE CHRISTIE - Far From the Hollywood crowd.

A Legend in Its Own Time - This new look at the making of Greed reveals a logic behind Erich Von Stoheim's obsession with realism. (Includes pic of Zasu Pitts).

Dialogue on Film: John Badham (includes pics of Roy Scheider; Matthew Broderick)

Behind the Scenes: Digesting Raoul (with pic of Richard Blackburn, Paul Bartel & Mary Woronov).


OTHER CELEBRITIES PICTURED INCLUDE:

Kristy McNichol; Rainer Werner Fassbinder; John Sayles; Mick Jagger, Ron Wood & Keith Richards; Robert Mitchum & Jane Greer; Robert De Niro; Gene Hackman; Dan Aykroyd; Gerard Depardieu & Nathalie Baye; Goldie Hawn & Burt Reynolds (in an ad for Warner Home Video).

Contents George Lucas dreams, 3-D is coming back, El Salvador films, Ingmar Bergman, HBO, Los Olvidados, Kim Stanley interview.

Contents A Star is Born, Walter Matthau, educational films, Twilight of the drive-in, Skip Blumberg, Ten Tough Broads, David & Leslie Newman interview.

Contents David Bowie 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence', Hollywood glamour photography, Steadicam & Skycam cameras, violence in horror films, westerns, Life Among the Americans, Grant Tinker interview.

Contents Andrzej Wajda, Sigourney Weaver, The Big Chill, Ordinary People, Robert Bresson, Labor unions on TV, Roman Holiday, Stewart Stern interview.

Contents The Right Stuff, Fear of spying, Orson Welles, Charlie Ahearn, Hungarian film industry, Lost and Found, Nostalghia, Martin Ritt interview.

Contents Brian De Palma films, Fifties sci-fi, Meryl Streep, William Castle, Ten Great Originals, Sweet Smell of Success on Broadway, Richard Levinson & William Link interviews.

Contents Jack Nicholson, The Year of Living Dangerously, Jonathan Demme interview, Murdoch's battle with the stars, Rock of Ages, John Huston interview.

Contents Cover:

Lillian Gish


Features:

Lillian Gish - A celebration of the year's Life Achievement Award winner. Pix include John Gilbert, King Vidor, Irving Thalberg.

Red Harvest - Cuban Cinema, in its 25th year, draws on both history and current events to inspire a crop of new films. Pix include Tomas Gautierrez Alea, Santiago Alvarez, Humberto Solas.

All the Right Moves - In the world of film publicists, you've got to promote new faces, massage tired egos and protect reluctant stars.

Band of Outsiders - In the early sixties, and education in film was something you earned on your own. Your idol was Godard, and you lived your life in the dark.

Ripped from the Headlines - After Saturday Night Fever, Hollywood and journalism looked like a match made in heaven, but real-life stories such as Silkwood can mean bigger than life hassles. Pix include Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Meryl Streep, John Travolta, Cher, Kurt Russell.


Regular Monthly Departments:

Flashback - My Brush With Painting (by Emile de Antonio). Encounters with contemporary painters from Jasper Johns to Andy Warhol - off and on screen.

Dialogue on Film - Sven Nykvist talks about Ingmar Bergman, the art of simplicity, and working in Hollywood.
Collector's Choice - Cops and Robbers. Ten tapes you can't refuse. Pix include: Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar. James Cagney in White Heat.

Trailers - Pix include: Nastassia Kinski, Rob Lowe & Jodie Foster in The Hotel New Hampshire. Robby Benson & Paul Newman in Harry and Son. Tom Hanks & Daryl Hannah in SPLASH.

From the Director - The Great Day After Flap (By Jean Furstenberg).

Contents COVER:

Donald Sutherland


FEATURES :

Dialogue on Film: PETER YATES - The director of Breaking Away talks about American myths, his new movie, The Dresser, and producing his own films (Pix include Albert Finney, Steve McQueen, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher).

DONALD SUTHERLAND's Seventh Inning Stretch - After a decade of averaging three films a year, and of working with directors as varied as Fellini, Malle and Altman, the actor is ready for a rest.

Tender is the Light (by Tom McDonough) - In which the intrepid cinematographer embarks on peregrinations through the mysterious world of images with digressions on literature, abnormal psychology, and Chinese food (Pix include Marlon Brando, Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol, Woody Allen, Gordon Willis, Teddy Churchill, Billy Bitzer, D.W. Griffith).
Local Heroes - A savvy festival, creative exhibitors, and adventurous audiences have made Seattle a movie trend setter.

Reelin' and Rockin' - The beat goes on in a spate of new films with rock tracks, but arranging a movie that will top the charts in both Variety and Billboard isn't as easy as it sounds (Pix include Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Jane Fonda, Vic Morrow, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda).

Letter From Beijing: A Small Leap Forward - China's new liberal policies are resulting in fresh topics, foreign coproductions, and a new voice for the world's largest film audience.

Videofile: Homes for Old Movies - Independent television stations are finding gold in classic films.

Collector's Choice: Woman of the Year - Coming to terms with the career of SHIRLEY MacLAINE (Includes pic of Jack Lemmon).

Contents Glenn Close, Ten cheap movies, Should the government support film and TV?, Today's musicals, Film piracy, Bourgeois Blues, Aaron Spelling interview.

Contents Once Upon a Time in America, Jean-Luc Godard, Streets of Fire, Ozzie and Harriet, Strange Loves, Martha Coolidge interview.

Contents Under the Volcano, San Francisco alternative film capital, Peril of TV Pilots, Good Sports, Jeanne Moreau interview.

Contents Charlie Chaplin Redux, Francesco Rosi, Where Eagle Dares, private eyes in film, School Daze, Erendira, Richard Pearce interview.

Contents Sam Shepard, Bertrand Tavernier, billboard advertising, films of people on the edge of society, Gremlins to Go, Bob Bennett interview.

Contents Kathleen Turner, The Day After, Alfred Hitchcock, Cheers cast of characters, Gregory's Girl, Jill Godmilow, David Puttnam interview.

Contents Gregory Hines, Dreamscapes, Elmore Leonard, independent film distributors, women in film, Falling in Love, Akio Morita interview.