Cover: Emerging Cinema: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Marguerite Duras, and Ken Russell
Features: Fassbinder by Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson, and interviewed by John Hughes Brooks Riley
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? By John Hughes
Fist-Right of Freedom by Roger Greenspun
Douglas Sirk by James McCourt
Douglas Sirk by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Russell by Stephen Farber
Duras interviewed by Jan Dawson
New cinema in Eastern Europe by Graham Petrie
Edinburgh Film Festival by Robin Wood
Midsection: “Four-wall” film companies by Wayne Kabak
New York Film Festival by Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson, Elliot Stein
TV news live coverage by Richard Corliss
Ethnographic film by Amos Vogel
Journals: Telluride by Elliot Stein
Books: Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies by various authors, reviewed by Gerald Weales