American Film, Volume IX, Number 2
Subtitle: November 1983
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: November 1983
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 88
Copyright date: 1983
Other titles: Volume 10, Number 2
Description: Cover photo of director Philip Kaufman and the cast of "The Right Stuff" (Lance Henriksen, Scott Paulin, Ed Harris, Charles Frank, Scott Glenn, Fred Ward, and Dennis Quaid). $2.50 Cover price.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 10
title: Short news stories; title: "The Secret Agent," a documentary on Agent Orange.
label: Double Agent; title: Heart Like a Wheel gets a bigger release.
label: Wheel Finds Legs; title: ABC's "The Day After."
label: Nuke Film Fallout; title: The Bob Dylan documentary "Don't Look Back"
label: It Ain't Yours, Babe!; label: Explorations: Between Two Worlds
pagenum: 14
title: The work of Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky is little known in America. Here he describes the evolution of his new film, "Nostalghia."; label: Dialogue on Film: Martin Ritt
pagenum: 19
title: The director talks about money in Hollywood, getting politics on the screen, and his new film, "Cross Creek."; label: Riding High with The Right Stuff
pagenum: 23
title: Until now, Philip Kaufman's career seems to have stalled on the launchpad, but his new film may be just the right vehicle to boost him into orbit.; label: Fear of Spying
pagenum: 28
title: Hitchcock loosed a psycho on Janet Leigh and the birds on Tippi Hedren. For this he's become the director feminists love to hate. But the rerelease of Rear Window and Vertigo show that his murderous gaze was directed at the hearts of men.; label: Prime-Time Whitewash
pagenum: 36
title: Wanted: new plots and characters for televisions vast WASPland. Blacks and Jews need not apply.; label: Moonlighting with the Stars
pagenum: 40
title: You know the guy who used to sell no wine before its time? He directed 'Citizen Kane.' Orsone Welles traded on fame for fortune -- in true Hollywood tradition. Celebrities hawk merchandise.; label: Wild Style
pagenum: 48
title: Sick of valley girls? Meet the break boys, rappers and graffiti guerrillas of Charlie Ahern's new film.; label: New Kid on the Bloc
pagenum: 52
title: Polish and Czech cinema has gone from ashes to diamonds and back again. But the Hungarian film industry, which has been producing world-class films for two decades, is only now catching fire in the West.; label: VideoFile: To Have and Have Not
pagenum: 59
title: Why are so few classic films available on videotape?; label: Scanlines
pagenum: 62
title: News blurbs; title: Established filmmakers move to MTV.
label: Wanna Be Directing Something?; title: Critics and viewers hail "Hill Street Blues."
label: Copping Out; title: A documentarian gets her own TV-movie spin in "On the Basis of Sex"
label: Return of Willmar 8; label: Collector's Choice: Lost and Found
pagenum: 64
title: Films that failed in theaters thrive on cassette.; label: Classified Ads
pagenum: 80; label: AFI Calendar
pagenum: 82; label: Trailers
pagenum: 86
title: The Dresser, Star '80, Heaven, Savage Islands, Going Berserk; label: From the Director
pagenum: 88
title: Independents: Voices That Must Not Be Stilled; title: NOTABLE ADS; label: Walt Disney Home Video
pagenum: 15
title: TRON; label: MGM/UA Home Video
pagenum: 66
title: 2-page spread featuring That Championship Season, The White Rose, Brimstone and Treacle, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Dirty Dozen; label: Media Home Entertainment
pagenum: 70
title: The Grey Fox; label: Worldvision Home Video
pagenum: 83
title: Holocaust, The Gathering, Gideon's Trumpet, Give 'Em Hell Harry, The Fugitive; title: Blue Thunder, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
label: RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video