Cover:<br>
Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones & Richard Pryor in The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.<br>
Features:<br>
The Saga of Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars - Can a black film break the audience color line? Pix include Billy Dee Williams, Bertha DeWitt, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Stan Shaw, Rico Dawson, Marcia McBroom.
The Other Side of Orson Welles. Pix include Peter Bogdanovich, John Huston, Oja Kodar filming The Other Side of the Wind.<br>
The Image Makers - Hollywood's great studio photographers created portraits for millions of fans. Pix include: Jean Harlow by George Hurrell. Marlene Dietrich byEugene Robert Richee. Tallulah Bankhead. Buster Keaton by Clarence Bull. Clara Bow by Eugene Robert Richee.<br>
No Violence, No Profanity, No Nudity - Plagued by commercial interruptions, movies on television are at the mercy of the networks' three big No-Noes. Pix include: Brenda Vaccaro & Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy. Sophia Loren in Two Women. Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde.<br>
Hail to the Chief - There was a time when "Going Out to the Coast" meant a luxurious three-day trip on one of the crack specials. A lot happened on those trains ... Pix include: Carole Lombard & John Barrymore in Twentieth Century. Ginger Rogers. <br>
Satire on Saturday Night. Pix include: Chevy Chase. Raquel Welch & Gilda Radner. Lorne Michaels. Laraine Newman. Garrett Morris. John Belushi. Dan Aykroyd.<br>
Windows on a Made-Up World - American Movies and the Cultural Past. Includes pic of Fred Astaire in Swing Time.
Regular Monthly Departments: <br>
Festival Report - Cannes. Pix include: Robert DeNiro & Dominique Sanda in 1900. Anne Lambert in Picnic At Hanging Rock. Dennis Hopper in Tracks.<br>
McMurtry on the Movies (by Larry McMurtry) - All the President's Men, Seven Beauties, History, Innocence, Guilt, Redemption, and the Star System. Includes pic of Robert Redford & Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men.
Dialogue on Film - Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond. Pix include: Carol Burnett in The Front Page. Jack Lemmon. Marilyn Monroe & Tom Ewell in The Seven Year Itch. Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray & Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity. Ray Milland & Howard Da Silva in The Lost Weekend. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. William Holden in Stalag 17. Marlene Dietrich in A Foreign Affair.

Features:<br>
The Last of the Nine Old Men - The Nine Old Men was Walt Disney's term for his chief team of animators. Pix include Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark, Ward Kimball, John Lounsbery, Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Frank Thomas, Eric Larson, Oliver Johnston, John Culhane.<br>
New Grub Street-West - When scripts are written for television, there is a curious process that intervenes between the author's works and what is broadcast. <br>
"Withdraw the Picture!" the Commissioner Ordered - The Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling on The Miracle. For Lillian Gerard it was the end of a struggle with censorship that started two years earlier at her New York cinema, The Paris. Includes pic of Anna Magnani in The Miracle.<br>
Has Television Become the Real Thing? - Reflections on the past season evoke some thoughts on television's use of reality. Pix include: LeVar Burton in Roots. Charles Bronson in Raid on Entebbe. Stefan Gierasch, Burt Lancaster, Richard Dreyfus & Harris Yulin in Victory at Entebbe. Penny Marshall & Jaclyn Smith competing in The Battle of the Netword Stars. Farrah Fawcett (Majors).<br>
Going Deeper With MacNeil and Lehrer - With a lively format and a lot more than a few lines of commentary, the Report gives us what the nightly news can't. Pix include Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer.<br>
Heartbreak Hollywood - After the stardom, there is the legend. For the star, unfortunately, that's not enough. Pix include: Mae Murray in The Merry Widow. Rita Hayworth in Gilda. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.<br>

Regular Monthly Departments:<br>
McMurtry on the Movies (By Larry McMurtry) - The Disappearance of Love.<br>
Focus on Education (By Sam Kula) - The Canadian Curriculum.<br>
Dialogue on Film - Norman Lear interviewed. Pix include: Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton in All In the Family. Bea Arthur & Bill Macy in Maude. Esther Rolle & Ja'net DuBois in Good Times. Richard Crenna & Bernadette Peters in All's Fair. Bob Newhart, Judith Lowry & Graham Jarvis in Cold Turkey. Maureen O'Sullivan & Paul Ford in Never Too Late. <br>Jason Robards Jr. & Norman Wisdom in The Night They Raided Minsky's. Ewa Aulin in Start the Revolution Without Me. Louise Lasser & Victor Killian in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Dick Van Dyke, Jean Simmons & Jason Robards Jr. in Divorce, American Style. Tony Bill & Frank Sinatra in Come Blow Your Horn.<br>
Festival Report: London. Includes pic of Elena Solavey in The Slave of Love.<br>
Explorations: Ann Arbor Experimental - Two Views (by Ellen Frank & Edgar Daniels).

The Mel Brooks Memos (article by Gene Lees); Were Those The Days? (article by John Russell Taylor); The Day The Silents Stopped (article by Larry Swindell); Interview: Richard Brooks; Notes On Some European Directors: Bertolucci, Schroeter, Herzog (article by Alan Greenberg); Star-Spangled Studio (article on government-funded film-making by Alex Ward); Commercials: Another Kind Of Film-Making (article by Bruce Cook); Columns: McMurtry On The Movies (by Larry McMurtry); Focus On Education (by Stephen Zito); Sound Track (by Robert Fiedel); Berlin Festival Report (by David Robinson); Book Reviews: including a biography of David Sarnoff and "The Camera Never Blinks" by Dan Rather.

COVER:<br>
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John<br>

FEATURES :<br>
Musical GREASE - They had hoods in those days; they wore taps, pegged pants, and they bullied the girls. The movie of GREASE brings it back with song and dance (Pix include John Travolta, Stockard Channing, Jamie Donnelly, Dinah Manoff, Olivia Newton-John, director Randal Kleiser, choreographer Patricia Birch).<br>
MGM. The Lion Finds New Game - Production at the famous studio is on the rise, and there's a Las Vegas connection (Pix include Mark Hamill, Genevieve Bujold, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, William Powell, Mryna Loy, Porter Hall).<br>
Good Morning, Lanesville - From Lanesville, New York, the people with portapaks bring you Harriet, a docufantasy, and Harold's Bar Mitzvah, Audience, maybe three hundred. But why is this important? (Pix include Joel Gold, Bart Friedman, Shigeko Kubota).<br>
ROBERT ASHLEY - Studs Terkel of the Avant Garde.<br>
Dialogue on Film: GEORGE CUKOR discusses the fine art of dealing with stars - males, females and couples (Pix include Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Florence Nash, Phyllis Povah, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Hepburn, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Judy Halliday, Robert Taylor, John Barrymore, Rex Harrison, Cary Grant, Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Broderick Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Melvyn Douglas, Aldo Ray, Ruth Hussey, James Stewart, Cicely Tyson, Elizabeth Taylor).<br>
My Criticism, My Politics (by Andrew Sarris) - The noted critic examines the war inside himself.<br>
About Television: Music and the Medium.<br>
The Noble Hours of Brazilian Television (Pix include Isabel Ribeiro, Elza Gomes, Bete Faria, Carlos Poyart, Christiane Torloni, Francisco Cuoco, Laura Soveral).<br>
Letter From a Small Island (by Elsa Barnuow) - What happens when a television miniseries disembarks its cast and crew on an out-of-the-way island?<br>
Festival Report: New York - Lincoln Center's annual film festival has become a cultural obligation (Pix include Bruno Ganz, Angela Molina).<br>
Inner Circles: A Look at the Laurels - Top screenwriters are honored by their peers.<br>
Explorations: The Spaced-Out World of DOUGLAS TRUMBULL.

COVER:<br>
Richard Gere & Chick Vennera in Yanks<br>

FEATURES :<br>
The Rise of RICHARD GERE (Pix include Diane Keaton, Lisa Eichhorn, Wendy Morgan).
On the Make with AMERICAN GIGOLO (Pix include Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton).
FRANK GIFFORD - The Gentleman Caller (Pix include Don Meredith, Howard Cosell).
MARK RAPPAPORT - Man on a Shoestring (Pix include Charles Ludlam, Michael Burg, Lina Todd, Peter Evans, Ellen McElduff).<br>
DORE SCHARY Remembers MGM (Part 1) - Schary chronicles his encounters with such powers as Harry Rapf, L.B. Meyer, and Nicholas Schenck (Pix include Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Robert Young).<br>
TESS - ROMAN POLANSKI in Hardy Country - The Polish director has used the Normandy countryside to evoke the English classic Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Pix include Nastassia Kinski, Peter Firth).<br>
NASTASSIA KINSKI - A Perfect Tess.<br>
JAMES EARL JONES Opens in PARIS (Pix include Billy Dee Williams, Joel Fluellen).<br>

DEPARTMENTS:<br>
Dialogue on Film: ARTHUR HILLER talks about his Canadian origins, working with George C. Scott and Maximillian Schell, and some favorite movies (Pix include Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Maximillian Schell, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Peter O'Toole, Paddy Chayefsky, Julie Andrews, Robert Taylor, Rod Steiger, Billy Barty, Sandy Dennis, Jack Lemmon, Ali McGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Lee Grant, Walter Matthau). <br>
About Television: An Iron Curtian of Sameness.<br>
Point of View: Commercials - The Subtle Sell.<br>
The Video Scene: Late developments in recorders, discs and cable. <br>
AFI News<br>
Periodicals

Nijinsky, Summing up the Seventies, Astoria (NY's famous old studio) lives again, John Schlesinger.

Thy Neighbour's Television (article by Edwin Diamond); The New Season: Promises, Promises (article by Robert Sklar); Coming: Soaps And Spin-Offs (article by Jay Eldridge); The Aesthetics Of Fright (article by Morris Dickstein); John Huston At 74: No Formulas (article/interview by Bernard Drew); Interview with Tony Bill; About Television (article by Martin Mayer; Letter From Rio (article by Mark Ginsburg); Lehman At Large (column by Ernest Lehman); Robert Breer's Animated World (article by J. Hoberman); Book Reviews: including reviews of Penelope Gilliatt's "Three Quarter Face" and Sidney Poitier's "This Life"; AFI News (regular column).

COVER:<br>
ISABELLE HUPPERT & KRIS KRISTOFFERSON<br>

FEATURES :<br>
MICHAEL CIMINO 's Way West - The director of The Deer Hunter has turned to the Johnson County War for a western called Heaven's Gate (Pix include Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston). <br>
What WILL H. HAYS Begat - Fifty years of the Production Code (Pix include Mae West, Maggie McNamara, Jon Voight).
Waiting for GRETA GARBO - At seventy-five, the legend and the enigma remain.
The Non-Hollywood Hustle - For independent filmmakers, raising the money is more of a struggle than shooting the film.<br>
GREGORY NAVA & ANNA THOMAS - They Made Their Films Their Way (Pix include Sheelagh Gilbey, William Bryan, Susannah Macmillan).<br>
All the News That Isn't the News - Is television overplaying the news?<br>
A Five-Year Sampler - Highlights from American Film (Pix include Faye Dunaway, John Wayne, Alec Guinness).<br>

DEPARTMENTS:<br>
Letters<br>
Lehman at Large: I Can Dream, Can't I?<br>
About Television: View From a Room In Tel Aviv<br>
Take Two: Pagnol's Marseilles Trilogy<br>
The Video Scene (Developments in programming & technology affecting the home viewer): A Premiere Approach / Have Video Camera, Will Travel<br>
Books: Take Two: A Life in Movies and Politics by Philip Dunne / Moving Places by Jonathan Rosenbaum.<br>
AFI News: Special Report - A new home for AFI-West<br>
Periodicals.

Excalibur Gambling on Chivalry, Robert DeNiro interview, creating a hit series, Timothy Hutton, A Wider World of Sports.

Jane Fonda, Letters of Raymond Chandler, Hollywood Abroad--Market and Image, Johathan Kaplan, Cable TV.

COVER:<br>
KLAUS KINSKI<br>

FEATURES :<br>
Why Is This Man Smirking? - After making only pennies from heaven, STEVE MARTIN is counting on dollars from film noir.<br>
My Dinner With Barry (by Robert Ward) - It's just a coupla Baltimore boys sitting around talking - about Diner (Pix include Robert Ward, Barry Levinson, Timothy Daly, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Kevin Bacon, Steve Guttenberg, Paul Reiser).<br>
WERNER HERZOG The God of Wrath - The dream of Fitzcarraldo became a nightmare (Pix include Claudia Cardinale, Klaus Kinski, Mick Jagger).<br>
War of the Wizards - There's no freeze on weapons in the escalating special effects race.
Caught in the Act - Video performance is making strange bedfellows of Robert Altman, Shirley Clarke, and Laurie Anderson <br>
Dialogue on Film: MARK RYDELL talks about working with Katharine Hepburn, Marsha Mason, and Bette Midler (Pix include Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Midler, Steve McQueen).<br>
Explorations: Back to Basics - ERNIE GEHR 's work explores the fundamental conditions of film itself.<br>
The Video Scene: Mondo Video (Director John Waters chooses ten videos worth staying home for) / Scanlines (Video news and notes) / Trial By Tape (Cassettes in court are becoming as common as criminals).<br>

OTHER CELEBRITIES PICTURED INCLUDE:<br>
Ben Cross & Ian Charleson. Pia Zadora & John Waters. Pam Grier. Daniel J. Travanti & Veronica Hamel. Aileen Quinn (in an ad for Annie). Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward (in and ad for Save the Children fund). Kirstie Alley & Leonard Nimoy. Sidney Poitier & Gene Wilder. Liv Ullman.

Disney's new image, Robin Williams 'Garp', Ordinary People, Renee Valente, Can movies kill?, Ted Turner.

Luis Bunuel, Jack Lemmon, homosexuality in recent movies, 'Night flight', musicals, Scoring with Synthesizers.

John Sayles, Wall Street goes to the movies, Carroll Ballard 'Never Cry Wolf', Time bandits, Lure of Trailers, BBC's War Game.

Jackie Gleason, Marcel Ophuls, film history is bunk!, Dyan Cannon, Mitterrand's Medialand, Martin Scorsese.

The Verdict' Sidney Lumet, Richard Price at the movies, Martin Sheen, Sneak Previews, lobby cards hobby, Couture Theory.

Jessica Lange, M*A*S*H pulls the plug, Computer graphics--life after Tron?, Sergei Eisenstein, Que' Viva Mexico!, Rouben Mamoulian interview, documentaries.

Gene Hackman, Future imperfect, Brazilian cinema, The star system, Brave new television sets, Richard Attenborough interview.

Movies for minors big business, Glenda Garson, New male melodrama, Louis Gossett Jr., Public televisioin's Prime-time politics, Perils of Pay-Per-View, The Lady is Willing, Dustin Hoffman interview.

COVER:<br>
SUSAN SARANDON<br>

FEATURES :<br>
SUSAN SARANDON - Who is she this time? (Includes pics of Richard Dreyfuss, Catherine Daneuve)<br>
Another Man's Method - While Lee Strasberg's name became a household word, Sanford Meisner was quietly training three generations of actors in his own acting style. (Includes pic of Meisner with Lillian Gish).<br>
Art for Film's Sake - With films like Diva, Blade Runner and Days of Heaven borrowing techniques from painters and sculptors, suddenly the scenery is the star. (Includes pics of Brooke Adams, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tim Curry, Peter Hinwood, Barry Bostwick)<br>
The Very Model of a Modern Minor Industry - Independent filmmaking in the United Kingdom is flourishing with help from the British Film Institute. This success may be its own undoing.<br>
JULIE CHRISTIE - Far From the Hollywood crowd.<br>
A Legend in Its Own Time - This new look at the making of Greed reveals a logic behind Erich Von Stoheim's obsession with realism. (Includes pic of Zasu Pitts).<br>
Dialogue on Film: John Badham (includes pics of Roy Scheider; Matthew Broderick)<br>
Behind the Scenes: Digesting Raoul (with pic of Richard Blackburn, Paul Bartel & Mary Woronov).<br>

OTHER CELEBRITIES PICTURED INCLUDE:<br>
Kristy McNichol; Rainer Werner Fassbinder; John Sayles; Mick Jagger, Ron Wood & Keith Richards; Robert Mitchum & Jane Greer; Robert De Niro; Gene Hackman; Dan Aykroyd; Gerard Depardieu & Nathalie Baye; Goldie Hawn & Burt Reynolds (in an ad for Warner Home Video).

George Lucas dreams, 3-D is coming back, El Salvador films, Ingmar Bergman, HBO, Los Olvidados, Kim Stanley interview.

A Star is Born, Walter Matthau, educational films, Twilight of the drive-in, Skip Blumberg, Ten Tough Broads, David & Leslie Newman interview.

David Bowie 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence', Hollywood glamour photography, Steadicam & Skycam cameras, violence in horror films, westerns, Life Among the Americans, Grant Tinker interview.

Andrzej Wajda, Sigourney Weaver, The Big Chill, Ordinary People, Robert Bresson, Labor unions on TV, Roman Holiday, Stewart Stern interview.

The Right Stuff, Fear of spying, Orson Welles, Charlie Ahearn, Hungarian film industry, Lost and Found, Nostalghia, Martin Ritt interview.

Brian De Palma films, Fifties sci-fi, Meryl Streep, William Castle, Ten Great Originals, Sweet Smell of Success on Broadway, Richard Levinson & William Link interviews.

Jack Nicholson, The Year of Living Dangerously, Jonathan Demme interview, Murdoch's battle with the stars, Rock of Ages, John Huston interview.

Cover:<br>
Lillian Gish<br>

Features:<br>
Lillian Gish - A celebration of the year's Life Achievement Award winner. Pix include John Gilbert, King Vidor, Irving Thalberg.<br>
Red Harvest - Cuban Cinema, in its 25th year, draws on both history and current events to inspire a crop of new films. Pix include Tomas Gautierrez Alea, Santiago Alvarez, Humberto Solas.<br>
All the Right Moves - In the world of film publicists, you've got to promote new faces, massage tired egos and protect reluctant stars.<br>
Band of Outsiders - In the early sixties, and education in film was something you earned on your own. Your idol was Godard, and you lived your life in the dark.<br>
Ripped from the Headlines - After Saturday Night Fever, Hollywood and journalism looked like a match made in heaven, but real-life stories such as Silkwood can mean bigger than life hassles. Pix include Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Meryl Streep, John Travolta, Cher, Kurt Russell. <br>

Regular Monthly Departments:<br>
Flashback - My Brush With Painting (by Emile de Antonio). Encounters with contemporary painters from Jasper Johns to Andy Warhol - off and on screen. <br>
Dialogue on Film - Sven Nykvist talks about Ingmar Bergman, the art of simplicity, and working in Hollywood.
Collector's Choice - Cops and Robbers. Ten tapes you can't refuse. Pix include: Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar. James Cagney in White Heat. <br>
Trailers - Pix include: Nastassia Kinski, Rob Lowe & Jodie Foster in The Hotel New Hampshire. Robby Benson & Paul Newman in Harry and Son. Tom Hanks & Daryl Hannah in SPLASH.<br>
From the Director - The Great Day After Flap (By Jean Furstenberg).<br>

COVER:<br>
Donald Sutherland<br>

FEATURES :<br>
Dialogue on Film: PETER YATES - The director of Breaking Away talks about American myths, his new movie, The Dresser, and producing his own films (Pix include Albert Finney, Steve McQueen, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher).<br>
DONALD SUTHERLAND's Seventh Inning Stretch - After a decade of averaging three films a year, and of working with directors as varied as Fellini, Malle and Altman, the actor is ready for a rest.<br>
Tender is the Light (by Tom McDonough) - In which the intrepid cinematographer embarks on peregrinations through the mysterious world of images with digressions on literature, abnormal psychology, and Chinese food (Pix include Marlon Brando, Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol, Woody Allen, Gordon Willis, Teddy Churchill, Billy Bitzer, D.W. Griffith).
Local Heroes - A savvy festival, creative exhibitors, and adventurous audiences have made Seattle a movie trend setter.<br>
Reelin' and Rockin' - The beat goes on in a spate of new films with rock tracks, but arranging a movie that will top the charts in both Variety and Billboard isn't as easy as it sounds (Pix include Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Jane Fonda, Vic Morrow, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda).<br>
Letter From Beijing: A Small Leap Forward - China's new liberal policies are resulting in fresh topics, foreign coproductions, and a new voice for the world's largest film audience. <br>
Videofile: Homes for Old Movies - Independent television stations are finding gold in classic films.<br>
Collector's Choice: Woman of the Year - Coming to terms with the career of SHIRLEY MacLAINE (Includes pic of Jack Lemmon).

Glenn Close, Ten cheap movies, Should the government support film and TV?, Today's musicals, Film piracy, Bourgeois Blues, Aaron Spelling interview.

Once Upon a Time in America, Jean-Luc Godard, Streets of Fire, Ozzie and Harriet, Strange Loves, Martha Coolidge interview.

Under the Volcano, San Francisco alternative film capital, Peril of TV Pilots, Good Sports, Jeanne Moreau interview.

Charlie Chaplin Redux, Francesco Rosi, Where Eagle Dares, private eyes in film, School Daze, Erendira, Richard Pearce interview.

Sam Shepard, Bertrand Tavernier, billboard advertising, films of people on the edge of society, Gremlins to Go, Bob Bennett interview.

Kathleen Turner, The Day After, Alfred Hitchcock, Cheers cast of characters, Gregory's Girl, Jill Godmilow, David Puttnam interview.

Gregory Hines, Dreamscapes, Elmore Leonard, independent film distributors, women in film, Falling in Love, Akio Morita interview.

Director Gillian Armstrong, Jean Renoir, Roger Corman, Ladies' night, Bringing the War Home, Saul Zaentz interview.

Gene Kelly, Images in Exile, Yukio Mishima, Emilio Estevez, Television History of Central America, Paper tiger TV, Eastwood tapes, John Bailey interview.

Sam Peckinpah, The great escape for gays, Rebecca DeMornay, Blackboard Jungle, Life after Punk, Ten spy films, Paul Bartel interview.

Francois Truffaut, Return to Ox, Heimat German saga, Rip Torn, New York Independents make movies, The Ratings game, The Peckinpah Tapes, Masahiro Shinoda interview.

Reminiscences and reflections on the art of filmmaking, 1975-1985 Ten Years That Shook the World, Nineteen people who shaped the decade, The Big Picture, The Best of 'American Film'.

COVER:<br>
ROSANNA ARQUETTE<br>

FEATURES :<br>
Dialogue on Film: BARBARA CORDAY tells how Cagney & Lacey was born and where she thinks television is headed (Includes pic of Sharon Gless & Tyne Daly).<br>
Point of View: Rear-Garde - This year's 'Biennial' testifies to the weakness of the movement.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE - Material Girl (Pix include Madonna, Tommy Lee Jones). <br>
Directors at War - While GEORGE STEVENS was filming the army in Europe, JOHN FORD was fighting the navy in the Pacific.<br>
Fiction: My First Script, by Ellie Burns.<br>
Fear Ate His Soul - Afraid of being alone, RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER created a tawdry world of hangers-on to fill the void.<br>
Once Upon a Time in the West - Heaven's Gate director MICHAEL CIMINO wanted to get it right, down to the last blade of grass.<br>
The Evolution of a Monkee- MICHAEL NESMITH has come a long way, baby.<br>
From the Director: Film, a Cultural Travelogue by Jean Furstenberg (With small pic of Sissy Spacek).

Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran', Off-Hollywood producers, The Emerald Forest, Who really wrote 'Citizen Kane'?, Brazil, SPFX 101, Betaville, Caleb Deschanel interview.

John Malkovich, Indian cinema, A place in the sun, Tony Buba, The Bullfighter and the Director, The rise and fall of Britain's leading theoretical film journal 'Screen', Bud Yorkin interview.

Claude Lanzmann in Poland, Ally Sheedy, South Africa independent filmmakers, Jean A. Mercier, Film editors, Federico Fellini, Alan J. Pakula interview.

Whoopi Goldberg, Director Andrei Konchalovsky, Guns in movies, The price of Japan's prosperity, Gotta Dance, Richard Sylbert interview.

Julie Christie, Yugoslavia filmmakers, Grace Jones, American Playhouse, children's television, Fred Zinnemann interview.

Billy Wilder, Heartburn, Alec Guinness, Red Dawn, Alan Rudolph, Mission to Moscow, Acting for John Ford, Writing bloody writing, Great Balls of Fire, Peter Weir interview.

Sean Penn, Fine Art of Tasteless Television, Robert Mandel Director, Christine Lahti, 9 1/2 Weeks, James Wong Howe, baseball films, Hector Babenco interview.

Barbara Hershey, Movies morals & kids, Artifacts of moviemaking, Gordon Willis, Moonlighting, What's wrong with today's films?, The Big Trail, John Sayles interview.

William Desmond Taylor murder, Top Gun, commercials in public television, Stephen King as director, Chords and discords, The Wild One, Peter Bogdanovich interview.

William Hurt, How not to make a movie, Films Alfresco, Channel 4, Menahem Golan & Yoram Globus, network news shows, Wheel of Fortune success, Hollywood's vintage 'goddesses', Wayne Wang interview.

Producer Michael Mann, Name of the Rose, Joe Bob Briggs, Caravaggio, Spike Lee, Louise Brooks' last days, Slices of the Big Apple, Agnieszka Holland interview.

Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas team up, David Byrne 'Talking Heads', British Producer David Puttnam, Jim Jarmusch, Cloning of 'Cosby', Christopher Isherwood remembered, Bernardo Bertolucci in the Forbidden City, Horton Foote interview.

The Mission, Laurence Olivier on his life, The Color of Money, Alex Cox, Hollywood does Broadway, Land of the Pharaohs, Luis Puenzo interview.

Peter Weir & Harrison Ford 'The Mosquito Coast', Gone With the Wind sequel?, Beth Henley, CBS Morning News, Jerzy Skolimowski 'The Lightship', Call of the wild, Legacy of Langlois, Sydney Pollack interview.

The Russians are Coming, The Color of Money, Australian director Bruce Beresford, happy endings, Rock Hudson in the closet, Platoon, Crocodile Dundee & Stand by me, Ismail Merchant & James Ivory interview.

Features:<br>
Mia Farrow. <br>
Dance, Girl, Dance - The Red Shoes is the ultimate ballet movie, but Moira Shearer had to be dragged kicking and screaming into her starring role.<br>
Michael Powell interviewed.<br>
Bleak Chic - Forget the feel good movies of the eighties. This decade will be remembered for its tales from the dark side - the New American Gothic.<br>
Up In Smoke - How far should film and television go in sponsoring the antidrug message? Pix include: Cheech and Chong. Scenes from Reefer Madness, Easy Rider, The Man With the Golden Arm, Platoon and Sid and Nancy.<br>

Plus regular monthly departments:<br>
Dialogue On Film - Stanley Kramer. Pix include Frank Lovejoy & James Edwards in Home of the Brave. Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind.<br>
Newsreel - Pix include: Tom Selleck & mother. Dennis Quaid.<br>
On the Air - Out of Africa, by JM Coetzee. Ali Mazrui's The Africans was denounced as anti-Western propaganda. A white South African gives his perspective.<br>
Close Up - Stuart Gordon. The director of Re-Animator strikes again with Dolls.<br>
Fast Forward - Pix include: Robert Mitchum & Barrie Chase in Cape Fear. Danny DeVito in Ruthless People.
Trailers - Pix inlcude: Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon. Mickey Rourke & Charlotte Rampling in Angel Heart. Richard Dreyfus & Danny DeVito in Tin Men.<br>
From the Director - The Producer: The Person With the Dream (by Jean Picker Furstenberg).<br>
Freeze Frame - Full page pic of Lucille Ball & Eddie Albert in The Fuller Brush Girl.

Raising Arizona, The Ten Best unproduced Screenplays, Barbara Stanwyck, Business for Art's Sake, movie stars on TV, The truth about lying in Hollywood, Paul Bern, Robert Townsend, Stuart Cornfeld interview.

Inside 'Ishtar', Trying to take over Disney, Jimmy Woods, Joe & Kenneth & Gertrude & Alice-the treatment of gays in film, a round-table discussion of producers, Robert Redford 'The Milagro Beanfield War', 'Swimming to Cambodia', Leonard Goldberg interview.

Cover:<br>
Kevin Costner & David Mamet<br>

Features:<br>
I Lost It At the Movies - How a virgin from Broadway learned to stop worrying, love Hollywood, write The Untouchables and direct House of Games from his own script. By David Mamet. Pix include Robert De Niro, Kevin Costner, Andy Garcia. <br>
Kevin Costner - The Untouchables' New Ness. <br>
The Tavianis - A Family Affair. On the set with two Italian brothers making a film about two Italian brothers on the set with D. W. Griffith. Pix include Greta Schacchi, Desiree Becker, Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Omero Antonutti in Good Morning Babylon . <br>
The Last Days of Orson Welles - In which his friends are candid about the great man and one another. <br>
Regular Monthly Departments:<br>
Newsreel - Includes pic of Peter Falk in The Sky Above Berlin. <br>
Dialogue on Film - Jessica Lange. Includes pic of Sam Shepard in Country.<br>
Behind the Scenes - Light at the End of the Tunnel. Stanley Kubrick turned his East London set into a Vietnamese city for Full Metal Jacket. Includes pic of Adam Baldwin.<br>
Off the Set - Truth or Consequences. David Freeman used to write "true" stories for New York magazine that he really made up. Then he made up a screenplay based on his own true story. The result was Street Smart . Includes pix of Christopher Reeve. <br>
Close-Up - William Richert. Beat poet-turned-filmmaker breaks all the molds with Jimmy Reardon.<br>
Fast Forward - Best bets among the month's releases on tape. Pix include: Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight. <br>
Trailers - Pix include: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon & Cher in The Witches of Eastwick. Tom Hanks & Dan Aykroyd in Dragnet 1987 . John Candy in Spaceballs . <br>
Freeze Frame - Full page pic of Janet Leigh in Living It Up .

Madonna, James Bond at twenty-five, Platoon, writers forum, Luis Valdez 'Zoot Suit', The Witches of Eastwick, Fred Schepisi interview.

Tony Huston 'The Dead', Stanley Kubrick 'Full Metal Jacket', Bruce Weber in Hollywood, Bob Hoskins, Executive discussion, John Sayles, Emily Lloyd, working for Samuel Goldwyn, Phil Joanou, Jim McBride interview.

Matthew Modine, Alex Cox in Nicaragua, RoboCop Paul Verhoeven, Austin Furst Jr, Norman Mailer as director, Dennis Franz, Hope and Glory, Karen Arthur interview.

Micky Rouke, Bernardo Bertolucci 'The Last Emperor', Gore Videl lawsuit, 'Thirtysomething', 'Forever', the 'Billionaire Boys Club', Jean Harlow-Greta Garbo & the Blacklist, Mary Lambert, John Schlesinger interview.

Oliver Stone, Eddie Murphy, Hollywood unions, your favorite old movie stars, new young European-trained cinematographers, Miranda Richardson, TV Justice programs, Barbara Hershey 'Shy People', Meet Frank Capra, Roland Joffe interview.

STREEP AND NICHOLSON: MAKING IRONWEED

In this issue:

(Re)Creating Ironweed - The author likens adapting novels for the screen to self-amputation. But sometimes the operation is a success.

Bright Lights, Camera, Action - You're not eh kind of novelist who imagines himself on a movie set, see, but you want the film version of your book done right ... Jay McInerney and James Bridges talk about Bright Lights, Big City.

Private Eye - When people talk, Errol Morris listens - the better to create his deadpan, offbeat documentaries. The Thin Blue Line, an investigation of a Texas crime, may be his breakthrough.

Who's On Next - Ten people to watch in the coming year.

Daniel's Day - Daniel Day-Lewis can transform himself from a working-class brat into an aristocratic snob in an instant. His newest films should move the quirky British actor into the mainstream.

Focus: Au Revoir les Enfants - Louis Malle's new film, suffused with grief.

Focus: Television - Fifty years wandering throught the vast wasteland.

Dialogue On Film: Alan Parker - "It's not my job to make you comfortable in the cinema", says the director of Midnight Express and Angel Heart.

Behind The Scenes: Class Act - School Daze, the new film from the director of She's Gotta Have It, takes an unorthodox look at black student life - and some folks aren't too happy about that.

Viewfinder: White Wash - Bathed in liberal sentiment, Sir Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom offers one-dimensional characters and astonishingly simplistic politics.

AFI Life Achievement Award Winner JACK LEMMON

In this issue:

The Old Gringo - With The Milagro Beanfield War, Robert Redford takes on a byzantine novel about Latino culture, bad weather, and an army of character actors. Who says Redford always plays it safe.

Jack Of All Trades - Jack Lemmon has done it all - acting, directing, producing - and won two Oscars along the way. Plus, he's survived a fickle Hollywood for over thirty years.

Nuts - Ace screenwriter Jay Presson Allen returns to television to produce 'Hothouse', a show about a psychiatric clinic where the shrinks can be as neurotic as their patients.

Back In The USSR - An inside look at glasnost in action by the head of the Soviet Filmmakers Union.

Blonde On Blonde - A love letter for Melanie Griffith

Focus: Beatrice - Betrand Tavernier's latest look back in anguish.

Focus: The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On - A banzai film from Japan throws darts at the emperor.

Dialogue On Film: Stirling Silliphant - The Oscar-winning screenwriter is a consumate craftsman. Here he tells how to keep the bankable scripts coming.

Off The Set: Revenge Of The Nerd - Producer Paul Maslansky was just another Hollywood schlepper - until Police Academy. Four sequels and millions of dollars later, everyone in town takles his calls.

Behind The Scenes: True Colors - Sure, Dennis Hopper's on screen and off drugs. But can he still direct?

Flashback: The Paper Chase - On a roll - in one way, at least.

Viewfinder: Wars Of The World - In the nuclear age, do science-fiction fantasies - like the author's new film, Light Years - provide an escape from reality?

Gary Oldman, 'Track', CBS '48 Hours', black film artists, Ed Pressman, 'The Wizards of Speed and Time', Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minnelli films, Tony Bill interview.

LILY TOMLIN

In this issue:

All Of Her - In the mainstream yukster Big Business, Lily Tomlin defies genre and gender to concentrate on the human comedy.

Hollywood And It's Discontents - Broadway's golden boy goes out West.

Broadcast Blues - When CBS News executives challenged "The A-Team" with a news show, they learned the true meaning of Nielsen.

Bombs Away - They say you're only as good as your last movie, yet some of the biggest names in Hollywood have made some of the biggest flops.

Focus: White Mischief - The sun sets on the British Empire - In this black comedy aboutcolonial Africa.

Focus: Who Killed Vincent Chin - Japan-bashing turns murderous in Motor City

Dialogue On Film: Percy Adlon - Bagdad Cafe, the latest film from the German director of Sugarbaby, takes a long gentle look at America.

Preservation: Some Enchanted Evenings - If dance is the most perishable art, television runs a close second. The restoration of Fred Astaire's acclaimed TV specials gives new life to both.

Close-Up: Shawn Slovo - The personal is the political for this screenwriter, daughter of South Africa's most famous white radicals.

Francis Coppola, Wim Wenders, agent Jeremy Zimmer, Garth Drabinsky, 'Call me Madame', 'The Commissar', A guide to political discourse TV-talk-show-style, Steven Spielberg interview.

Debra Winger, Paintings of Davis Cone, Robert Zemeckis, The Jewish problem, 'Eight Men Out', 'Boyfriends and Girlfriends', James Dearden ' Pascali's Island', Frank Sinatra on tape, Steven Bochco interview.

Clint Eastwood, director Paul Schrader, Marcel Ophuls interview, American flops-European Hits, 'Running on Empty', Black comedians and their roles, 'Shame', Adrian Lyne interview.

Jodie Foster, Yoko Ono & John Lennon 'Imagine', David Cronenberg 'Dead Ringers', Martin Scorsese, Willem Dafoe, entertainment lawyers discussion, Haskell Wexler interview.

Steve Martin 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrel', How Hollywood fixed an election, Julien Temple rock video whiz, The Kennedys, Hilary Henkin, 'A Dangerous Life', director Ivan Passer interview.

Dustin Hoffman, Stephen Frears, 'Mississippi Burning', TV movies, director Martha Coolidge interview.

The future of talking pictures, What to expect in movies, Ted Turner, Robert Towne 'Tequila Sunrise', Lawrence Kasdan 'The Accidental Tourist', Larry McMurtry, Tuesday Weld, producer Michael Shamberg interview.

Gregory Peck, Dennis Potter, 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen', The incredible shrinking epic, Martin Scorses, British sex dramas, Carole Lombard, director John Frankenheimer interview.

Sexual cynicism in the movies, Theresa Russell, Hollywood 'sex goddesses', Thomas McGuane, first-time directors, Alec Guinness, 'The Wild Bunch', French director Louis Malle interview.

Sean Connery & his career & future, Comic books into movies, John Cassavetes, James L. Brooks, Bruce Weber documentary on Chet Baker jazz, 'Moonlighting', Joan Micklin Silver interview.

Dennis Quaid 'Jerry Lee Lewis', Gale Ann Hurd, Return of the Return of the summer sequel, The price club, Independent filmmakers, Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, Fellini's '8 1/2', Otto Preminger films, Jill Godmilow interview.

Spike Lee & Robert Townsend, Rob Reiner & Billy Crystal, Film School Confidential, John Fante, Lucille Ball, Shelley Duvall, Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Schrader interview.

Sergio Leone, Euzhan Palcy, Foreign intrigue, Danny DeVito, David Weisman, Robert Bolt, John Patrick Stanley interview.

Robert DeNiro, Sound designers, Laura Dern, Irwin Winkler devoted to betrayal, William Wellman, Midge Sanford & Sarah Pillsbury interviews.

American Film critic's poll of the 1980s, 'Not Afraid of the Dark', Martin Ritt conversation, paternity pictures, video classics reviewed, Jim Henson interview.

Holly Hunter, Ron Shelton, Production Code enforcer Joe Breen, Wild pitches to sell your movie, Bert Fields entertainment lawyer, holiday tearjerkers, production designer Richard Sylbert interview.

Sylvester Stallone, Ron Kovic 'Born on the Fourth of July', Isabelle Adjani, Irish writer Neil Jordan, military techno-thrillers, Anthony Mann, Paul Mazursky interview.

Jack Nicholson, Hollywood 50s scandal rag 'Confidential', Bob Rafelson, wide-screen movies, Julie Christie, on-location in Arizona, actress-director Lee Grant interview.

Tribute to David Lean, Rules of the Game, Natsha Richardson 'The Handmaid's Tale', John Turturro, on-location in Florida, Alejandro Jodorowsky cinematic master of the surreal.

Tom Hanks, If critics picked the Oscars, John Waters, Hitchcock goes 'Psycho', riddle of the archives, David Lynch 'Twin Peaks', Garry Marshall interview.

In praise of actors, 'Last Exit to Brooklyn', AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival, Top 40 entertainment companies, Peter Guber & Jon Peters, Laser-disc machines, James Woods interview.

Nicolas Cage, Great scenes written at the last minute, Summer movie preview, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roger Corman, Bill Moyers interview.

Julia Roberts, Canadian film, Michael Powell, Casting characters, Louis Malle, producers Richard & Lili Zanuck interview.

The script men, Denzel Washington, Patrizia von Brandenstein, Film school pop quiz, Yugoslavia's director, Greta Garbo, Cannes publicity, Jessica Lange interview.

Philip Kaufman, 35 years of rock in film, Jim Sheridan director, Spanish Dracula, Uma Thurman, Michael Apted & Alan Parker, Television sports, screenwriter Larry Ferguson interview.

Jeff Bridges, Jim Morrison, Tribeca stories, Sex for kicks, Fritz Lang, actor Tim Reid interview.

Anjelica Huston, Barry Levinson in Baltimore, 1990 movie-book collection, J. Stuart Blackton, Robert Altman, Hair-and-Makeup on the job, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond interview.

Coppola's 'Godfather' third chapter, Andy Garcia, Bernardo Bertolucci, The diary of Anne Archer, Producer duos A-list, Liam Neeson, Super 8 memories, William Friedkin interview.

Michelle Pfeiffer, location manager Bruce Lawhead, Michael Curtiz Hungarian director, 1991 Film Festival guide, 'An American Family', director John Schlesinger interview.

Matt Dillon, Looking for trouble, Radio heirwaves, State of the art of film composing, Ennio Morricone interview, Penelope Spheeris & Danny Elfman rebels, production designer Ken Adams interview.

Sissy Spacek, Tribute to Kirk Douglas, Oliver Stone discussion, 10 Best Unproduced Screenplays, Amblin producer Frank Marshall interview.

The critics picks, Andrei Konchalovsky and Roman Polanski about Soviet sets, Young Bogart prep-school rebel, Jazz movie classics, Keith Carradine, editor Anne Goursaud interview.

Cutting-edge director John McNaughton, Producers as masters of the deal, Robert Mitchem video classics, documentarist Frederick Wiseman interview, Susan Sarandon, Oscor Micheaux, Stanley Kramer & Paul Winfield interview.

The Summer movies, Method acting, writer-director Richard Brooks, Vincent Spano & Chazz Palminteri, Americans in Europe, John Sayles.

Betting on bestsellers, The film-school way, Kathryn Bigelow & James Cameron, 'The Addams Family', Laura Dern.

Cinema Psyche, Joel & Ethan Coen's bizarre 'Barton Fink', Who's minding the archives?, directors Charles Burnett & Charles Lane, Myrna Loy, Sean Penn with attitude.

Gus Van Sant, 'Madame Bovary', editor Thelma Schoonmaker, Sidney Poitier dialogue, Costumers' sketch pad, Andrei Codrescu, Kenneth Branagh 'Dead Again'.

In bed with America, Peter Greenaway, Sizing up Jodie Foster, Glenn Close dialogue, Richard Ford, Jeremy Irons.

David Cronenberg 'Naked Lunch', Akira Kurosawa, Pedro Almodovar 'High Heels', Randa Haines dialogue, Armand Assante 'Mambo King'.