American Film, Volume IV, Number 6
Subtitle: April 1979
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: April 1979
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1979
Description: Cover photo of Jill Clayburgh on the set of "La Luna;" color advertisement for "Hair" on reverse side. $1.75 cover price.

Color photo spreads for "An Unmarried Woman," "La Rotonda," and "Time After Time."

Larry McMurty returns for the first time since his column "McMurtry on the Movies" ended in November 1977.
Table of contents: label: Comment: Tube Tactics
pagenum: 7
title: Do we need to learn how to watch television?; title: Richard A. Hawley; label: Lehman at Large: The Industry
pagenum: 8
title: Why is everyone always attacking the Industry?; title: Ernest Lehman; label: Letters
pagenum: 10; label: About Television: Proposals and Prescriptions
pagenum: 11
title: The problem with the current Carnegie commission is that it has nothing to say, doesn't know much about television, and doesn't really care about television at all.; title: Martin Mayer; label: Inner Circles
pagenum: 15
title: When W. Somerset Maugham went Hollywood.; title: Wilmon Menard; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 17
title: The Bradford Exchange, "Gone With the Wind" Scarlett collector's plate.; label: The Basic Training of Jill Clayburgh
pagenum: 19
title: The actress reflects on the hard road up.; title: Bernard Drew; label: The Afterlife, Hollywood-Style
pagenum: 25
title: "Heaven Can Wait" is only the latest incarnation of what decades ago was a virtual genre: characters caught in a realm between life and death. The films were marked by wit and style - and a tendency to reveal more about the here and now than the there and after.; title: Andrew Sarris; label: Don Giovanni: Opera Into Film
pagenum: 28
title: Can opera work on film? Director Joseph Losey is gambling that it can. He's bringing Mozart's masterwork about the legendary rake to the screen. But the stage has been abandoned for the architectural splendors of northern Italy.; title: Roland Gelatt; label: Dialogue on Film: Carl Foreman
pagenum: 35
title: The man who wrote "High Noon" and "The Bridge on the River Kwai" talks about his films, his blacklist days, and his latest project, the life of Steve Biko.; label: William Fraker's Magic Camera
pagenum: 48
title: "I hate the reality of reality," declares the cinematographer of "Rosemary's Baby," "Bullitt," "Heaven Can Wait" - and now "1941." To take the edge off the everyday, Fraker will try everything from smoke to mustard.; title: Patrick McGilligan; label: Take Two
pagenum: 54
title: A reassessment of Roberto Rossellini's "General della Rovere."; title: Stanley Kauffmann; label: Video Spectrum: The Satellite Boom
pagenum: 58
title: The satellites are proliferating. Stay tuned.; title: Jonathan Miller; label: Q: What's H.G. Wells Doing in San Francisco? A: Chasing Jack the Ripper.
pagenum: 60
title: It's the "what if" premise of the whimsical new film "Time After Time."; title: Michael Dempsey; label: Books
pagenum: 66
title: Reviews.; title: "The View From Sunset Boulevard: America as Brought to You by the People Who Make Television" by Ben Stein
label: Larry McMurtry; title: "Creative Differences: Profiles of Hollywood Dissidents" by David Talbot and Barbara Zheutlin
label: Patrick McGilligan; title: "Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film" by Bruce F. Kawin
label: James Monaco; label: AFI News
pagenum: 75; title: Sue McDonoghue; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80