American Film, Volume VIII, Number 5
Subtitle: March 1983
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: March 1983
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 88
Copyright date: 1983
Other titles: Volume 8, Number 5,
Description: Cover photo of Gene Hackman by Greg Gorman. $2.00 cover price.
Table of contents: label: Contents
pagenum: 3; label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 6; label: Letters
pagenum: 8; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 10
title: Short articles; title: Jean-Jacques Beineix's follow-up to "Diva," "The Moon in the Gutter."
label: Diva's Encore; title: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Querrelle."
label: Querrelle Quarrel; title: Handicapped folks want the right to star in films.
label: Able to Act; title: A potential re-release of the extended version of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."
label: Chopping Mad; label: Dialogue on Film: Richard Attenborough
pagenum: 16
title: The director of "Gandhi" recalls his move from a successful career in front of the camera to an even more successful one behind it.; label: VideoFile: Brave New Television Sets
pagenum: 25
title: We have seen the future of video and it's flat, stereo, wall-sized, and three-dimensional.; label: Scanlines
pagenum: 28
title: Short articles; title: Thorn-EMI's budgeted video releases.
label: Kind Hearts and Videocassettes; title: Women's roles in cable TV.
label: New Old-Boy Network; title: The Z Channel unearths the uncut version of Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate."
label: Cable Heaven for Cimino's Gate?; label: Collector's Choice: Personal Films
pagenum: 29
title: "Exposed"'s director fingers 10 cassettes he wouldn't gamble with for love or money.; label: Letter from Paris: Tempest in a Demy-tasse
pagenum: 36
title: While the critics shower praise on Jacques Demy's new film, Jean-Paul Belmondo leaves the public breathless.; label: "I'm Not a Movie Star; I'm an Actor!"
pagenum: 40
title: Gene Hackman found that fame got in the way of work. At the height of his career, he announced his retirement. Now, with three new films, he's back in a major way, still leery of stardom.; label: Future Imperfect
pagenum: 46
title: Is there life after the twentieth century? Recent sci-fi suggests that the future belongs to the androids.; label: Sell It Again, Sam!
pagenum: 50
title: UA Classics' shoestring ingenuity is making money on movies like "Cutter's Way" and "Chilly Scenes of Wintewhich once defied the laws of distribution.; label: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Stars...
pagenum: 57
title: Veteran screenwriter William Goldman calls them pampered, ill-tempered, virtually interchangeable - and absolutely indispensable.; title: How Do Stars Happen?; title: Wealth; title: Extras; title: The Great Santini; title: Protecting the Star; title: Get the Star in Early; title: Describing the Star; title: Exposition; title: Filmmakers Worry that money and worldwide recognition are eroding their national identity.
label: Will Success Spoil Brazilian Cinema?; label: Books; label: Bergmania
pagenum: 71
title: A new biography of Ingmar Bergman by Peter Cowie relies on previously inaccessible sources, but it is not the definitive treatment.; label: Trailers
pagenum: 85
title: Mike's Murder, Tender Mercies, The Black Stallion Returns, High Road to China, Breathless; label: From the Director
pagenum: 88
title: The Critical Link Between Artist and Audience