American Film, Volume VIII, Number 7
Subtitle: May 1983
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: May 1983
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1983
Other titles: Volume 8, Number 7
Description: Cover photo of Susan Sarandon. $2.00 cover price.
Table of contents: label: Contents
pagenum: 3; label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 5
title: Summer blockbusters; label: Letters
pagenum: 8; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 10
title: Short news stories.; title: Sam Fuller's "White Dog."
label: Hot Dog; title: Bulgarian International Festival of Comedy and Satirical Films accepts submissions.
label: Commie Comedy; title: "Kamikaze '89"
label: Fassbinder, Superstar; title: John Sayles wins MacArthur Foundation Prize
label: Smooth Sayling; label: Behind the Scenes: Digesting Raoul
pagenum: 14
title: When Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov made it big by "Eating Raoul," their phones started ringing off the hook. Every weirdo in Hollywood wanted something.; label: VideoFile: The New British Invasion
pagenum: 17
title: Some of today's best rock videos are directed by Englishmen.; label: Scanlines
pagenum: 20
title: Short news stories.; title: Richard Nixon hosts "Leaders."
label: Heeeeere's Nixon!; title: Feminism at the "Television Transformations and New Forms" festival.
label: Visionary Video; title: AdVideo Journal is released for an annual subscription cost of $1,800.
label: Video Magazine; label: Collector's Choice: Film Noir
pagenum: 21
title: A dozen gloomy movies on cassette that shine in a darkened living room.; label: Dialogue on Film: John Badham
pagenum: 26
title: Even after "Saturday Night Fever," no one knew his name. But "Blue Thunder" and "War Games" could make him this year's Spielberg.; label: Who Is She This Time?
pagenum: 30
title: Turning her flaky image into an asset, Susan Sarandon has created a gallery of offbeat characters in films like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "The Tempest." In her latest, "The Hunger," she vamps the vampire.; label: Another Man's Method
pagenum: 34
title: While Lee Strasberg's name became a household word, Sanford Meisner was quietly training three generations of actors in his own version of the often-misunderstood acting style.; label: Art for Film's Sake
pagenum: 40
title: With films like "Diva" and "Days of Heaven" borrowing techniques from painters, suddenly there's scenery in the stars.; label: The Very Model of a Modern Minor Industry
pagenum: 46
title: Independent filmmaking in the United Kingdom is flourishing with the help from the British Film Institute. The achievement holds lessons for Americans, but this success may be its own undoing.; label: Julie Christie: Far from the Hollywood Crowd
pagenum: 48
title: Q&A; label: A Legend in its Own Time
pagenum: 56
title: "Greed" has the reputation for being an overambitious project by an extravagant, self-indulgent director. But this new look at the making of the movie reveals a logic behind Erich von Stroheim's obsession with realism.; label: Calendar for AFI Members
pagenum: 70; label: Books
pagenum: 72
title: "Howard Hawks," "Hawks on Hawks," "Howard Hawks, Storyteller," and "Hawks," reviewed by Dave Kehr.; label: Trailers
pagenum: 78
title: Doctor Detroit, Heart Like a Wheel, Kipperbang, Rock & Rule, The Return of Martin Guerre; label: From the Director
pagenum: 80
title: Films for All-Time?; label: NOTABLE ADS; title: Betamax featuring Jaws, Inner-cover
label: Sony; label: CBS FOX
pagenum: 2
title: The MASH finale.; label: RCA Columbia
pagenum: 29
title: "The Toy" on videocassette.; label: MGM/UA
pagenum: 38
title: Video-for-Lovers Collection featuring Gigi, Doctor Zhivago, Singin' in the Rain, My Favorite Year, Midnight Cowboy, Yes Giorgio, Victor Victoria, and Lady Chatterly's Lover. 2 pages.; label: Fugi
pagenum: 50
title: SHG Videocassette; label: Warner Home Video
pagenum: 79
title: Screwball comedies featuring a photo from "Best Friends" with Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn.