American Film, Volume VI, Number 5
Subtitle: March 1981
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: March 1981
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Copyright date: 1981
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover features the wedding scene from "Excalibur" starring Nigel Terry and Cherie Lunhi.
Table of contents: label: Ad
pagenum: 4
title: "Smokey and the Bandit II" on videocassette; label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 5; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: About Television: J.R. Is Alive and Well in Turkey
pagenum: 8
title: Something is going on here with respect to "Dallas," and it is more than American cultural aggrandizement.; label: Lehman at Large: Hollywood Comes of Age
pagenum: 13
title: "Harry, enough with retirement, make pictures again. What do you want with that empty, meaningless, predictable life of yours...?"; label: Explorations: Sympathy for the Devil
pagenum: 16
title: After a long period spent wandering in the wilderness, Kenneth Anger has finally premiered "Lucifer Rising," his first finished film in nearly a dozen years.; label: Ad
pagenum: 20
title: "Mickey Mouse Disco" on home video; label: The Video Scene: A Wider World of Sports
pagenum: 21
title: A look at the expanding menu of sports available on pay and cable television - and a close-up view of two new cable networks catering to insatiable sports fans.; label: Ad
pagenum: 25
title: Neil Simon for Save the Children; label: How We Created Columbo - And How He Nearly Killed Us
pagenum: 26
title: It was a detective series with a twist - no mayhem, no chases. What went on behind the scenes was another story - one that exposes the inner workings of network television.; label: The World of King Arthur According to John Boorman
pagenum: 30
title: With "Excalibur," the British director turns to tales of knights and sorcerers.; label: Dialogue on Film: Robert De Niro
pagenum: 39
title: The usually reticent actor talks about his performance in "Raging Bull," how he prepares for a role, and his collaborations with his favorite director, Martin Scorsese.; label: From "Breaking Away" to "Eyewitness": [Peter] Yates and [Steve] Tesich Shift Gears
pagenum: 49
title: Can the team who celebrated coming of age in Indiana meet the challenge of a whodunit set in Manhattan?; label: Why Movie Audiences Aren't Safe Anymore
pagenum: 54
title: A directing ploy invites viewers to participate - with sinister results. By Roger Ebert; label: Doing What Comes Naturally
pagenum: 62
title: Actor Timothy Hutton, says one admirer, has "an instinctive sense of precisely what is right."; label: Festival Report: The London Marathon
pagenum: 69
title: The new Australian cinema is delving into its country's most aboriginal history; Manganinnie has the flavor of The Wild Child, but mostly it's a work of sui generis beauty and resonance.; title: Reviews.
label: Books; label: Can a Book Capture a Film?
pagenum: 71
title: "Two or Three Things I Know About Her: Analysis of a Film by Godard" by Alfred Guzzetti; label: TV Guide for Parents
pagenum: 72
title: "Teaching Television: How to Use TV to Your Child's Advantage" by Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer and Diana M. Zuckerman; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 76; label: From the Director
pagenum: 80
title: Inaugural column by Jean Firstenberg, director of the AFI.