FILM FUN

Rip It Up, Issue 26, 1 September 1979, Page 18

FILM FUN

The Who’s film The Kids are Alright opens throughout NZ late in October. A fave with the British music press, The K[ds are Alright is a celluloid history of The Who with lots of mods, guitar smashing, old interviews and more recent concert footage ... Peter Weir, director of Aussie’s Picnic at Hanging Rock fame is slated to direct a film based on the best selling novel The Thorn Birds... Ken Russell is reportedly having strong differences of opinion with screenwriter Paddy Chayevsky on his new film Altered Stages ... You can’t keep a good director down Allan Dwan, who directed his first movie in 1909 has just written an original screenplay to star Telly Savalas ... Midnight Express has just celebrated its first anniversary of non-stop showing in London’s West End ... Frederico Fellini’s new film City of Women has suspended shooting for at least a month because of the death of leading actor Ettore Manni ... Two contrasted films at the head of the top grossers list in Variety The Amityville Horror edging The Muppet Movie out of top place by a million and a half dollars takings ... Al Pacino’s new film Cruising which is about a series of homosexual murders is being disrupted in New York by the actions of gay demonstrators ... Halas and Batchelor’s new short film Autobahn is based on the song by Kraftwerk popular way back in the midseventies sometime.