Mon, Sep 22, 1980
A weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the world of cinema. John Travolta talks about his return to the screen as the Urban Cowboy (1980), and about the ups-and-downs of his career. Gene Kelly is Olivia Newton -John's latest dancing partner in the musical spectacular Xanadu (1980). AI Pacino plays an undercover police officer in Cruising (1980), a controversial film about a homicidal maniac who preys on homosexuals in their cruising grounds.
Mon, Sep 29, 1980
A weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the world of cinema. Jack Nicholson stars in STANLEY KUBRICK's The Shining (1980), playing a man who is gradually possessed. Shelley Duvall is interviewed about her role in this film and her forthcoming movie Popeye. Michael Caine plays a psychiatrist in BRIAN DE PALMA's new suspense drama Dressed to Kill (1980) which features Angie Dickinson as his patient. Christopher Walken, Colin Blakely and director John Irvin talk on location in London where they have been making The Dogs of War (1980), based on FREDERICK FORSYTH's best-seller.
Mon, Oct 6, 1980
Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill are featured in The Big Red One (1980) a World War II drama which follows the fortunes of a tough army sergeant and his young squad from North Africa to Czechoslovakia. Roy Scheider, star of Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical musical All That Jazz (1979), explains how he tackled his unusual role. Oliver Reed on location in Los Angeles talks about his dual character in the comedy spoof Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980).
Mon, Oct 13, 1980
John Hurt stars as The Elephant Man (1980), a Victorian circus freak who is taken up by society. Anthony Hopkins plays the doctor who befriends him. Brothers David, Keith and Robert Carradine and Stacy and James Keach play brothers in The Long Riders (1980), a film about the Jesse James gang. Michael Caine, David Warner and writer Peter Benchley talk on location in the Bahamas about The Island (1980), Benchley's follow-up to Jaws and The Deep.
Mon, Oct 20, 1980
Steve McQueen stars as 'Papa' Thorson, a modern-day bounty hunter in The Hunter (1980). Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins are the teenage lovers stranded on a South Sea island in The Blue Lagoon (1980), a remake of the 1949 classic. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the death of D.H. Lawrence. We join Ian McKellen, who plays the writer, and Janet Suzman, his wife Frieda, at Shepperton Studios for Priest of Love (1981), which examines the last years of the writer's life.
Mon, Oct 27, 1980
A weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the world of cinema. Edward Woodward plays the title role in Breaker Morant, a true story of a court martial during the Boer War. Bruce Beresford directs this Australian production. Charlton Heston stars in The Mountain Men, a Western based on a screenplay by his son Fraser. Jack Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson talk on location in California to Barbra Paskin about remaking the classic thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Mon, Nov 17, 1980
New York - a special report with news and interviews from the city which has once again become one of the film capitals of the world. Plus a look at some of the films currently on show there, including Stardust Memories, Woody Allen's ninth movie as writer-director-star; and Ordinary People, the story of a family in crisis, starring Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland, which marks the directorial debut of Robert Redford.
Mon, Nov 24, 1980
Over 90 films from 27 countries are being screened at the 24th London Film Festival. The varied programme includes Kurosawa's Kagemusha and Abel Gance's 1927 epic Napoleon. Burt Reynolds talks on the location of Smokey and the Bandit II about his career and latest film. Michael Caine and David Warner star in Peter 'Jaws' Benchley's third watery adventure The Island.
Mon, Dec 1, 1980
A weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the world of cinema. Jason Robards stars as the leader of an American expedition to "Raise the Titanic", and Sir Alec Guinness plays an octogenarian survivor of the 1912 disaster. Sam Neill and Lisa Harrow talk on location in St Austell about making "The Final Conflict" - the second and final "Omen" sequel. The competition this week - 'Groucho gags' - is based on the humour of the Marx Brothers.
Mon, Dec 8, 1980
A progress report on the continuing saga of the fall and rise of the British film industry, including two current British releases, Breaking Glass and Babylon. Stars Alec Guinness and Ricky Schroder and director Jack Gold, on location at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, talk about their remake of Little Lord Fauntleroy
Mon, Dec 15, 1980
Barry Norman with a Christmas round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Sam Jones plays the super hero and Melody Anderson his lovely side-kick Dale Arden, in Flash Gordon, producer Dino de Laurentiis' galactic adventure based on the popular 1930s comic strip. Woody Allen, who stars as Sandy Bates, the famous film director in Stardust Memories, comments in York about the similarities between his own life and the character he plays. Clint Eastwood wishes his British fans a merry Christmas and talks about his latest comedy role in Any Which Way You Can, in which he co-stars again with Sondra Locke and Clyde the orangutan.
Tue, Dec 30, 1980
Barry Norman looks back at the films of 1980 and selects his 12 best. Will Kramer vs Kramer make the final list? How does Stanley Kubrick's The Shining compare with Brian de Palma's Dressed to Kill? Is Kagemusha the best foreign-language film? Where does British director Alan Parker's Fame rank? Did Peter Sellers give the best comedy performance in Being There?
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.