Mon, Jan 26, 1981
News, reviews, interviews from the cinema world. Bette Midler , filmed in concert, demonstrates her raunchy singing and comic abilities in Divine Madness. Burt Lancaster stars as a small-time hood in Atlantic City, French director Louis Malle 's romantic thriller set against the gambling background of this famous American resort. Producer David Puttnam, actors Dennis Christopher, Brad Davis and Ian Charleson talk on location at Liverpool about Chariots of Fire, this year's royal film, which is based on the true story of a group of athletes and their bid for Olympic glory in 1924.
Mon, Feb 2, 1981
News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Marlon Brando received one million dollars a scene for his role in The Formula (1980), a thriller in which he plays an oil tycoon with a war-time secret to hide. In a remake of The Jazz Singer (1980), immortalised in the 20s by Al Jolson, recording star Neil Diamond takes on the musical role with Laurence Olivier as his sceptical Jewish father. Chicago is the setting for My Bodyguard (1980), a dramatic comedy about a high-school dominated by Matt Dillon as its extortionist gang-leader, until the new boy, Chris Makepeace, finds a way to challenge him.
Mon, Feb 16, 1981
Alec Guinness and Ricky Schroder star in a new screen version of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980), the classic story of a boy brought up in America who becomes heir to a British title. The controversial Raging Bull (1980) finally opens later this week, with Robert de Niro as boxing champion Jake La Motta. On location Albert Finney and Martin Sheen offer an unusual insight into their forthcoming film Loophole (1981), the story of a remarkable robbery.
Mon, Feb 23, 1981
News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Ellen Burstyn stars in Resurrection (1980), the story of a young American woman who recovers from a near-fatal car accident to discover she possesses the power of faith healing. Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn and George Peppard are among the intrepid warriors fighting for survival in the space fantasy Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). On location in Hungary, footballers Pele and Bobby Moore join actors Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone to talk about Victory (1981), a World War II adventure which focuses on a group of Allied prisoners who play the German all-star soccer team in a life and death match.
Mon, Mar 2, 1981
News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Robert Redford makes his début as a director in Ordinary People (1980) with Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland as the prosperous couple whose lives are shattered by a death in the family. Angela Lansbury plays Miss Marple in Agatha Christie 's The Mirror Crack'd (1980), with a distinguished cast that also includes Rock Hudson, Edward Fox and Elizabeth Taylor. On location in San Francisco Peter Ustinov talks about his role as the famous Chinese detective in Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981).
Mon, Mar 9, 1981
News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Robert Duvall is The Great Santini (1979), a fiercely-dedicated hard-living US Marine fighter pilot, who is unwilling to compromise his own brand of leadership even when it involves his family. Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell are the turn-of-the-century American pioneers facing the harsh reality of Wyoming life in Heartland (1979). Gene Wilder talks in New York about his re-teaming with Richard Pryor in Stir Crazy (1980), a comedy in which they play a couple of showbiz hopefuls who inadvertently find themselves framed for robbery and jailed for life.
Mon, Mar 16, 1981
Sissy Spacek won an Oscar nomination for best actress for her portrayal of country and western star Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). The Academy Award-winning documentary Best Boy (1979) tells the story of the New York parents struggling to make their ageing and retarded son ready for life without them. On location in Egypt Lesley-Anne Down and Frank Langella talk of their roles in Sphinx (1981), a thriller set in the Valley of the Kings.
Mon, Mar 23, 1981
News, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Paul Michael Glaser (alias Detective Starsky from the TV series), who stars in Phobia (1980), a psychological thriller directed by John Huston, comments on this role and his ambitions for the future. Director Richard Donner's Inside Moves (1980) features John Savage (best known for The Deer Hunter), and takes a compassionate look at a group of physically-handicapped people coming to terms with everyday life.
Mon, Mar 30, 1981
The last programme in the present series offering news, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Chariots of Fire (1981), chosen for tonight's Royal Film Performance, is the story of two British Olympic athletes and their contrasting attitudes to victory. Michael Crawford talks on location about his role in Condorman (1981) as the cartoonist who tries to live his characters with hilarious results. La Cage aux Folles II (1980) is a sequel to the enormously successful performance by Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi as the gay couple running a St Tropez night club.
Mon, Sep 28, 1981
A weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Kurt Russell, Donald Pleasence and Ernest Borgnine star in Escape from New York (1981), director John (Halloween and The Fog) Carpenter's nightmare vision of American lawlessness in 1997. Bo Derek becomes the 14th actress to play Jane, and newcomer Miles O'Keeffe portrays her jungle hero in Tarzan the Ape Man (1981). Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and director Karel Reisz talk about the making of The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), based on John Fowles' best-selling novel.
Mon, Oct 5, 1981
James Caan plays an independent thief who becomes involved with organised crime in Thief (1981), filmed on location in Chicago. Marilyn Monroe is the subject of this new film biography, Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980) - starring Catherine Hicks - which confirms the continuing fascination with the actress who died 18 years ago. A report from Los Angeles, where Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland are making ]tt0082250] - a sequel to Death Wish, the controversial film about urban vigilantes - directed by Michael Winner.
Mon, Oct 12, 1981
A weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Mel Brooks directs and stars in History of the World: Part I (1981), an irreverent saga of man's evolvement from the dawn of creation to the French Revolution. William Hurt plays the Eyewitness (1981) whose life becomes endangered after a murder involves him with glamorous TV reporter Sigourney Weaver. American teenage actress Brooke Shields comments on her life as an international star, prior to the opening of her latest film Endless Love (1981).
Mon, Oct 19, 1981
William Devane and Beverly D'Angelo star in John Schlesinger's comedy - Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) - in which the citizens of Ticlaw in Florida, by-passed by the new freeway, try to attract motorists to their town. Bruce Dern stars in Tattoo (1981), as a psychopathic tattoo artist determined to leave his mark on Maud Adams. Billie Whitelaw and director Chris Petit talk about An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982) (based on a P. D. James crime thriller), the low-budget film they are currently making on location in Berkshire.
Mon, Oct 26, 1981
A weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. John Travolta and Nancy Allen star as a couple of strangers caught in a web of terror following a murder, in director Brian De Palma's thriller Blow Out (1981). Blending comedy with drama, The Fox and the Hound (1981) is the 20th full-length animated feature from the Disney studios-the most expensive film of its kind. In Los Angeles, Candice Bergen, Jacqueline Bisset and veteran Hollywood director George Cukor are interviewed on the set of Rich and Famous (1981), a film which explores the tempestuous friendship between two writers.
Mon, Nov 2, 1981
News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Burt Reynolds stars as a successful bachelor businessman, who wants a son and heir, and Beverly D'Angelo is the surrogate mother he picks to help him, in Paternity. Keith Carradine finds himself in a Louisiana swamp pursued by Cajun Indians in Southern Comfort. A report on the 25th London Film Festival - including Gallipoli, an Australian epic film set against the background of the famous World War I battle.
Mon, Nov 9, 1981
News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Jenny Agutter and David Naughton star in An American Werewolf in London (1981), a contemporary spoof horror on the wolf-man classics, written and directed by John Landis. Richard Burton plays schoolmaster-priest Fr Goddard and Billy Connolly makes his dramatic film debut in Absolution (1978), a suspense thriller set in a Roman Catholic boys' school. Oscar-winning actress Sally Field teams up with Tommy Lee Jones in Back Roads (1981), an off-beat romantic comedy which follows their unlikely friendship as they travel across America together.
Mon, Nov 16, 1981
News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Policeman Albert Finney is confronted with a series of baffling murders in Wolfen (1981), which are not the work of mere mortals. Paul Le Mat plays a CB operator determined to clean up the airwaves in Citizens Band (1977), Jonathan Demme's affectionate look at small-town America. A further report from the 25th London Film Festival, including King Vidor's silent classic, The Crowd (1928), with an original score by Carl Davis.
Mon, Nov 23, 1981
News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Faye Dunaway discusses her portrayal of Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981), the film based on Christina Crawford 's controversial book about her mother. Richard Chamberlain stars as the samurai hero in Shogun (1980), a story of adventure and romance set in 17th-century feudal Japan. Sally Sharp makes her film debut in The End of August (1981), playing a society wife trying to come to terms with her individuality in turn-of-the-century New Orleans.
Mon, Nov 30, 1981
Including a report on The Standard 1981 British Film Awards held last night in London. Among the films in contention are: The French Lieutenant's Woman, Gregory's Girl (1980), Chariots of Fire, The Long Good Friday (1980).
Mon, Dec 7, 1981
Including Australian director Peter Weir's World War I adventure Gallipoli (1981), which follows two young men who cross desert and ocean to take part in the Anzac landings; and Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981), director Bernardo Bertolucci's contemporary Italian drama concerning a tycoon whose son is kidnapped.
Mon, Dec 14, 1981
Treat Williams plays a Prince of the City (1981) in Sidney Lumet's film about corruption in the New York Police Department. Heavy Metal (1981) combines animation and rock music in a comic strip adventure story. A background report on the making of Gone with the Wind (1939), the most legendary film in movie history, which will be screened on British television for the first time this Christmas.
Mon, Dec 21, 1981
A round-up of Christmas films. Dudley Moore plays the world's richest drunk, who falls in love with waitress Liza Minnelli under the watchful eye of his valet John Gielgud, in the romantic comedy Arthur (1981). Peter Falk is the manager of ...All the Marbles (1981), a ladies' wrestling team fighting its way to the top in director Robert Aldrich's off-beat comedy. George Hamilton re-creates the legendary masked hero in Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981), a spoof remake of the swashbuckling adventure first made famous by Douglas Fairbanks in 1920. Sylvia Kristel and Nicholas Clay star in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981), the screen adaptation of D. H. Lawrence 's classic erotic novel.
Mon, Dec 28, 1981
Barry Norman looks back at the films of 1981 and selects his 12 best. Will Robert Redford 's directorial debut, Ordinary People, make the final list? How does Raiders of the Lost Ark compare with Superman II? How does Burt Lancaster 's performance in Atlantic City rate with Robert de Niro's in Raging Bull? How will British films Chariots of Fire and The Long Good Friday fare?