American Film, Volume V, Number 8
Subtitle: June 1980
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: June 1980
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 72
Copyright date: 1980
Description: Final issue with $1.75 cover price. Cover photo of the Fritz Lang's Metropolis exhibit at La Cinémathèque française. Ads for "The Competition," "Bronco Billy," "The Long Riders," and "Fame," home video ads for "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," "Jaws," "King Kong," and "An Interview with Dustin Hoffman: The Making Moments of Kramer vs. Kramer," plus a 2-page Kodak ad featuring Garry Marshall.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: About Television: Mr. Wizard
pagenum: 8
title: "3-2-1 Contact" is the best children's series - the best instructional series - since the Children's Television Workshop began "Sesame Street."; label: Explorations: The Cinema of Structure
pagenum: 12
title: Structuralism was not only the dominant sensibility of the last decade's avant-garde, but the most troublesome term in its critical lexicon.; label: Festival Report: Berlin
pagenum: 16
title: The Berlin festival made brave motions toward achieving that comprehensiveness that any big festival should aim at.; label: Film Treasures of the Palais de Challot
pagenum: 18
title: The Cinémathèque Française has long been famed for public showings of its massive film collection. Now it has a museum that, says the author, "is nothing less than the cinema's equivalent of the Louvre.; label: Carl Sagan's Guided Tour of the Universe
pagenum: 22
title: This fall, when PBS launches "Cosmos," the man who will smile at you week after week during this guided tour of the universe is none other than Carl Sagan, television's top pitchman for science.; label: Breaking Away, Mogul Style
pagenum: 28
title: When Arthur Krim and friends stormed out of United Artists, Orion Pictures was born. And so was a new executive trend.; label: Stalmaster, the Master Caster
pagenum: 34
title: What do John Travolta, Jill Clayburgh, and Christopher Reeve ow this man? Lynn Stalmaster is regarded as film's preeminent casting director. Who he is and how he works.; label: Dialogue on Film: James L. Brooks
pagenum: 41
title: The much-honored television producer and writer talks about the series he has done ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Lou Grant," "Taxi"), his recent move into film (he wrote "Starting Over"), and what he sees as the current depressing state of television.; label: [Stanley] Kubrick Goes Gothic
pagenum: 49
title: His new film is "The Shining" - an $18 million scare. Oh, the horror.; label: Lehman at Large
pagenum: 58
title: The Hollywood Party; label: Books
pagenum: 62
title: Reviews.; title: "Cinema, A Critical Dictionary: The Major Film-Makers" edited by Richard Round; title: "When the Lights Go Down" by Pauline Kael; title: "Before My Eyes" by Stanley Kauffmann; label: AFI News
pagenum: 69; label: American Film Classified
pagenum: 70; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 72