Mon, Sep 10, 1979
Barry Norman returns with a weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Alien (1979): a galactic horror story including some of the most spectacular special effects ever filmed. The Main Event: Barbra Streisand co-stars with Ryan O'Neal in this film about the world of boxing, billed as 'a glove story'. Dracula (1979): Frank Langella portrays the famous vampire as a romantic Byronic figure in this latest adaptation of Bram Stoker s novel, also starring Laurence Olivier and Kate Nelligan. Deauville : a report from the Fifth Festival of American Cinema - showcase for current American films, attended by many of the stars and directors involved.
Mon, Sep 17, 1979
Hanover Street: Lesley-Anne Down stars with Harrison Ford and Christopher Plummer in a wartime romantic drama set in London in 1943. Old Boyfriends: the story of a woman's journey of revenge across America in search of her past lovers. New film Pretty Baby: director Louis Malle's controversial film featuring child-star Brooke Shields as a 12-year-old prostitute in a New Orleans brothel. Wanda Nevada: on location for her new film, Brooke Shields comments on her unusual role in Pretty Baby and Peter Fonda talks of the difficulties of being an actor/director.
Mon, Sep 24, 1979
Saint Jack: Peter Bogdanovich talks about his latest film shot in Singapore and starring Ben Gazzara as an expatriate hustler. Scum: Ray Winstone plays a Borstal boy in a film version of the controversial television play, directed by ALAN CLARKE from a screenplay by ROY MINTON. Meteor: Natalie Wood, Sean Connery and Karl Maiden discuss their roles in the forthcoming disaster movie directed by RONALD NEAME.
Mon, Oct 1, 1979
The In-laws: Peter Falk stars as a nutty CIA agent who involves his future brother-in-law, Alan Arkin, in a zany comedy of international adventure and danger. Woyzeck: Director WERNER HERZOG'S latest film features Klaus Kinski in this classic tale of a German soldier. Blood Feud: After a preview of her forthcoming film, Sophia Loren talks about the influences on her career and some of her favourite roles, as recounted in her recent autobiography.
Mon, Oct 8, 1979
Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Lost and Found: George Segal and Glenda Jackson star in their first comedy together since A Touch of Class in 1973, once again directed by Melvin Frank. Little Miss Marker: Walter Matthau talks to Barbra Paskin in Hollywood about working with six-year-old Sara Stimpson in a remake of the 1934 movie which made Shirley Temple a star. Airport 80 - The Concorde: Alain Delon and George Kennedy are the pilots, Sylvia Kristel is the cabin supervisor, and Cicely Tyson and Martha Raye are among the passengers in the fourth disaster movie in the Airport series.
Mon, Oct 15, 1979
Love on the Run: Jean-Pierre Leaud is the star of director Francois Truffaut's fifth film in his semi-autobiographical series which started 20 years ago with The Four Hundred Blows. The Human Factor: Nicol Williamson, John Gielgud and Richard Attenborough are interviewed on the location of Otto Preminger 's new film based on Graham Greene's spy thriller.
Mon, Oct 22, 1979
Barry Norman with a weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. A Perfect Couple: Robert Altman directs this contemporary boy-meets-girl romance. Paul Dooley and Marta Heflin star as the pair from very different backgrounds brought together by a dating service. Up in Smoke: This comedy starring Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin - counter culture's Abbot and Costello - follows their adventures smuggling marijuana. History of the World Part 1: The celebrated director Mel Brooks describes his forthcoming minor film project.
Mon, Oct 29, 1979
The Frisco Kid: Gene Wilder plays a Rabbi, and Harrison Ford his outlaw ally, in a comedy-drama set in San Francisco in the Gold Rush days. Zulu Dawn: Peter O'Toole , Burt Lancaster and John Mills are among the stars of this story of bravery in which 1,500 British soldiers were slaughtered by 25,000 Zulu warriors in the 1870s. There Goes the Bride: On location at Pinewood Twiggy recreates the flapper days of the 1920s in her first screen role for five years.
Mon, Nov 5, 1979
Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Yanks: John Schlesinger's film about GIs, set in wartime Britain. Richard Gere and William Devane play the American soldiers; Vanessa Redgrave and Lisa Eichhorn the English girls who love them. Monty Python's Life of Brian: a send-up biblical epic about a reluctant Messiah - played by Graham Chapman - whose fate is to be crucified. The entire Python team star and Terry Jones directs. Sybil: Joanne Woodward and Sally Field in a psychological drama about a case of multiple personality, focusing on the involvement between doctor and patient.
Mon, Nov 19, 1979
A Little Romance: Laurence Olivier stars as an elegant French pick-pocket, who helps two young teenage lovers, played by Diane Lane and Thelonious Bernard, to fulfil an adolescent dream. Slow Dancing in the Big City: John Avildsen (who won an Oscar for Rocky) directs this romance between a New York columnist (Paul Sorvino) and a ballerina (Anne Ditchburn). London Film Festival: the 23rd festival, which presents the best films of this year's European festivals, includes Those Wonderful Movie Cranks, a Czech film about a travelling picture-show.
Mon, Nov 26, 1979
Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news. reviews and interviews from the movie world. Yesterday's Hero The first major British film with a football background stars Ian McShane and Adam Faith in a story about a has-been football hero who fights his way back to the top. Martin Vampire or psychopath? American director George A. Romero poses the question- in his modern-day monster movie. Wind River On location in Wyoming Charlton Heston talks about playing a fur trapper, and his 24-year-old son Fraser explains his role as the screenwriter.
Mon, Dec 3, 1979
Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. The Outsider (1979): a controversial story of an Irish-American Vietnam veteran (Craig Wasson), who joins the IRA in Ireland, and is exploited by both sides in the conflict. Fedora (1978): Billy Wilder 's latest film is featured in a retrospective season at the National Film Theatre. Somewhere in Time (1980): a location report from Canada, in which Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer comment on their roles in this time travel love story.
Mon, Dec 10, 1979
Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. The Prisoner of Zenda: Peter Sellers stars in the latest remake of this classic tale of romance and impersonation, made famous by Ronald Colman in 1937. The House on Garfbaldi Street, set in Buenos Aires in I960, Israeli actor Topol leads the hunt for Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmam. The Man with Bogart's Face: on location in Hollywood, actor Robert Sacchi, the Humphrey Bogart look-alike, tells Barbra Paskin about his role as -Los Angeles private eye ' Sam Marlowe.
Mon, Dec 17, 1979
Barry Norman presents a Christmas round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Apocalypse Now (1979): Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen star in Francis Ford Coppola 's epic film about the Vietnam war. The Black Hole (1979): this Walt Disney space adventure stars Maximilian Schell, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine and a blood-red, man-mashing robot. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): based on the classic science-fiction TV series and featuring television regulars William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
Mon, Jan 7, 1980
Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news. reviews and interviews from the movie world. Breaking Away: Peter Yates, of Bullitt fame, directs this comedy about an American teenager played by Dennis Christopher , who dreams of becoming a cycle champion. Bear Island: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Widmark are among the stars of this action adventure set in the Arctic and based on the ALASTAIR MACLEAN thriller.
Mon, Jan 14, 1980
Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. The Amityville Horror: James Brolin, Margot Kidder and Rod Steiger star in this story about the nightmare that overtakes a young family when they move to their new home. Time After Time: Malcolm McDowell playing H. G. Wells travels in a time machine from Victorian England to contemporary America. David Warner as Jack the Ripper is his fellow traveller. Wise Blood: John Huston directs this story about a religious fanatic in the rural south of America.
Mon, Jan 28, 1980
The Big Fix: Richard Dreyfuss plays Moses Wine, a not-so-thriving private detective, whose investigations lead him through a complex web of intrigue. Escape from Alcatraz: Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel are reunited eight years after Dirty Harry, for a prison tale based on the true story of the only escape from Alcatraz. Clint Eastwood Appreciation Society: a report from the West Midlands, where fans talk about their hero and the club devoted to him.
Mon, Feb 4, 1980
The Human Factor: who is the double agent in the British Secret Service? Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough and Robert Morley are among the stars of director Otto Preminger's screen version of the Graham Greene novel. 10: does life begin at 40? Dudley Moore thinks not as he grapples with the conflict of his longstanding relationship with Julie Andrews and his obsession with the stunning newcomer Bo Derek. Middle Age Crazy: on location in Canada Bruce Dern and Ann-Margret comment on their roles in a comedy about the currently popular theme of coping with a mid-life crisis.
Mon, Feb 11, 1980
The Rose: Bette Midler in her first screen role stars as a 60s rock singer caught up in the seedy world of the music business. The Seduction of Joe Tynan: Alan Alda as an American senator seduced by both power-politics and by the charms of Meryl Streep as an activist lawyer. Breaking Glass: on location in London Phil Daniels, star of Quadrophenia, comments on his first adult role in a film about the contemporary rock music scene with newcomer Hazel O'Connor.
Mon, Feb 18, 1980
Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979): Dustin Hoffman talks about his role - as a father left to bring up a 6-year-old son - in a performance which has made him a hot contended to win one of this year's Oscars. Meatballs (1979): a zany comedy which takes a look at life in, a, North American kids" summer camp; under the watchful eye of Bill Murray. Rising Damp (1980): Leonard Rossiter playing the bigoted landlord and Frances de la Tour his spinster tenant in this film version of the popular TV series.
Mon, Feb 25, 1980
The Onion Field: starring John Savage and James Woods and based on Joseph Wambaugh's best-selling novel which tells of the kidnapping of two police officers and the subsequent murder of one of them. Black Jack (1979): a story of a young boy in 1750 who is forced to accompany a fearsome highway-man; directed by Ken Loach and produced by Tony Garnett, who return to feature film-making after seven years. Going in Style: George Burns and Art Carney talk about their latest roles as aged folk living a humdrum life, who suddenly decide to rob a bank.
Mon, Mar 3, 1980
Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Dawn of the Dead (1978): American director George Romero's sequel to Night of the Living Dead is a suspense horror film set in Pennsylvania. Saturn 3 (1980): Kirk Douglas and Stanley Donen talk about their roles as star and director of this science-fiction fantasy about a futuristic Garden of Eden. Academy Awards: who is in the running for next month's Oscars? A look at some of the stars and films recently nominated.
Mon, Mar 10, 1980
S.O.S. Titanic (1979): the latest film version of the tragic story of the sinking of the 45,000-ton liner Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912. Among the cast are David Janssen, David Warner, Helen Mirren and Susan Saint James. The Runner Stumbles (1979): with Dick Van Dyke and Kathleen Quinlan, based on an actual murder case involving a Catholic priest accused of murdering a young nun. Stanley Kramer, the director of The Runner Stumbles, talks about the film and about its star, Dick Van Dyke, who returns to feature films after an absence of nine years.
Mon, Mar 17, 1980
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979): tonight's royal film, already nominated for nine Oscars, stars Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in a modern-day drama about separation, divorce and child custody. The Electric Horseman (1979): Robert Red-ford plays Sonny Steele, ex-world champion cowboy turned horse thief, and Jane Fonda the TV reporter who pursues him across America's wild, desolate terrain. Silver Dream Racer (1980): David Essex , returning to the screen after a six-year absence, talks about his role as an aspiring champion motorcycle rider, in a love story set around international race tracks.
Mon, Mar 24, 1980
Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Murder by Decree (1979): starring Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes and James Mason as Dr Watson, in the latest mystery which involves royal marital indiscretions and Jack the Ripper. North Dallas Forty (1979): starring Nick Nolte as a professional ball-player who reaches a crisis point in his life when he realises he will never be as good as he was yesterday. Bhumika (1977): directed by Shyam Benegal, it tells the story of a famous Indian actress who starts with nothing and ends with success, but without any of life's fulfilments.
Mon, Mar 31, 1980
When Time Ran Out... (1980): Paul Newman, William Holden and Jacqueline Bisset are among the stars of Irwin Allen's latest disaster movie set in a volcanic Polynesian island. North Sea Hijack (1980): a contemporary thriller centred on the oil rigs featuring Roger Moore as an eccentric underwater espionage expert, who becomes involved in a terrorist plot led by Anthony Perkins. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978): Bertrand Blier's Oscar-winning comedy stars Gerard Depardieu as a man who tries to cheer up his wife by finding her another man.
Mon, Apr 14, 1980
Tom Horn: Steve McQueen stars as Tom Horn, whose relentless pursuit to eliminate rustling earned him the reputation as one of the most fearless men who ever lived. Bad Timing: Nicholas Roeg directs Art Garfunkel and Theresa Russell in a story about a man's obsessive love for a woman and her inability to handle the emotion. Starting Over: Burt Reynolds finds that starting over after a marriage split between Candice Bergen and himself is not that easy despite his meeting with Jill Clayburgh.