American Film, Volume VI, Number 3
Subtitle: December 1980
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: December 1980
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1980
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall as Popeye and Olive Oyle in Robert Altman's "Popeye."
Table of contents: label: Advertisement
pagenum: 1
title: The Video Club of America; title: The Idolmaker starring Ray Sharkey
pagenum: 2; label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Lehman at Large: The Razor's Edge
pagenum: 8
title: One angry moviegoer denounced "Dress to Kill" as a rip-off of "Psycho," ignoring the fact that "Psycho" is a black-and-white film while "Dressed to Kill" is in red.; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 10
title: "A Christmas Carol" from VCI; title: Walt Disney Home Video (featuring Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice)
pagenum: 11; title: Robert Scorsese's "Raging Bull" starring Robert De Niro
pagenum: 12; label: About Television: Parting Shots From a Cable Crusader
pagenum: 13
title: "The problem in the future is that we're going to have a software shortfall. Are we up to the challenge of so many channels?... The cable companies can't afford not to have those channels filled."; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 15
title: MCA Videocassette, Inc. ("The Blues Brothers," "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie," "Coal Miner's Daughter"); label: Festival Report: The Shining Dark Horses of Edinburgh
pagenum: 16
title: Edinburgh has always been hotter after movie trouves than prestigious big-budget cinema, and this year's lineup was typically and wondrously eclectic.; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 18
title: A 2-page spread for "Magnetic Video, A 20th Century Fox Company," predominently featuring "All That Jazz" with small ads for "Alien," "The Fog" and "M*A*S*H."; title: Developments in programming and technology affecting the home viewer
label: The Video Scene; label: Hardware for the Holidays
pagenum: 21
title: The latest in home video.; label: All Over the World
pagenum: 25
title: Hollywood markets videos worldwide.; label: The Stormy Saga of Popeye
pagenum: 30
title: ...or, How an Unlikely Crew Guided a Musical to Port; title: Mork Meets Olive Oyl
pagenum: 35; label: Garlic and Other Ethnic Pleasures
pagenum: 38
title: Filmmaker Les Blank is the down-home poet of regional cultures. His films savor old traditions, strong family ties, local music - an good food. In his latest film, he celebrates the polka.; label: Television's Phantom Audience
pagenum: 42
title: To network decision makers, viewers exist not in the flesh but as statistics and computer print-outs. What effect does this have on programming decisions? For one thing, occasional arrogance.; label: Buck Henry Gets Cagey
pagenum: 46
title: The deadpan comic of "Saturday Night Live" has graduated to film director. Is he ready to get serious in an interview? Not quite.; label: Dialogue on Film: Ned Beatty
pagenum: 53
title: The versatile character actor talks about shuttling between films and television, working with directors such as Robert Altman and John Huston, and the virtues and limits of improvisation.; label: American Film Books 1980
pagenum: 63
title: A holiday-buying guide to the best books about film and television.; label: AFI News
pagenum: 77; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 78; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80