American Film, Volume IV, Number 8
Subtitle: June 1979
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: June 1979
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1979
Description: Cover photo of Lee Marvin in Sam Fuller's "The Big Red One." Color spreads for "The Big Red One" & "The Muppet Movie." $1.75 cover price.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Point of View: Open Season on Critics
pagenum: 6
title: The film critic as entrepreneur; label: Lehman at Large: Ubiquity Will Get You Nowhere
pagenum: 8
title: How to see and hear everything at the same time.; label: Letters
pagenum: 10; label: About Television: Save the Children
pagenum: 12
title: The aesthetics of children's commercials.; label: Festival Report
pagenum: 14
title: Independent spree at Ann Arbor.; label: Sam Fuller Lands with The Big One
pagenum: 20
title: Terror of the b-movies, hero of the cultists, cigar-chomping, fast-talking Sam Fuller has finally completed his magnum opus. At 66, Fuller's back - after a decade of silence - and ready for more action.; label: The Muppets Make It Big
pagenum: 25
title: Kermit and Miss Piggy are now movie stars.; label: Lawyers: Hollywood's New Power Brokers
pagenum: 28
title: Today's movie lawyers are wheelers and dealers, challenging agents for Hollywood dominance and affecting the movies we see.; label: Dialogue on Film: Vilmos Zsigmond and Laszlo Kovacs
pagenum: 35
title: In separate dialogues, the cinematographers of some of Hollywood's top films talk about their work with directors like Michael Cimino and Martin Scorsese.; label: The War Between Writers and Directors, Part II: The Directors
pagenum: 48
title: Whose movie is it, anyway? Here the directors state their case.; label: About Faces
pagenum: 54
title: The evolving art of the close-up.; label: The Short Harried Life of Mrs. Columbo
pagenum: 62
title: Would you believe Lieutenant Columbo had a 23 year-old wife? Mistake number one.; label: Books
pagenum: 68
title: Reviews.; title: "Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down" by Tom Dardis; title: "American Film Now: The People, the Power, the Money, the Movies" by James Monaco; label: AFI News
pagenum: 75; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80