Cinema Premieres in january 1978

A Different Approach (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Michael Keaton, Stockard Channing, Melissa Sue Anderson, Lucie Arnaz
• Director: Fern Field

A Tasteful Romance (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Dana Andrews

Abe Lincoln: Freedom Fighter (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Brock Peters, Andrew Prine, Allen Williams
• Director: Jack Hively

Almost Crying (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Harvey Chao, Frances Leeming
• Director: George Manupelli

Amazing World of Ghosts (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Sidney Paul
• Director: Wheeler Dixon

Amours sous la révolution: André Chénier et la jeune captive (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Anny Duperey, Nicolas Silberg, Jacques Toja
• Director: Jean-Paul Carrère

Are We Alone in the Universe? (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Asthamayam (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Auditions (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Linnea Quigley, Bonnie Werchan
• Director: Harry Hurwitz

Betty Kaplowitz (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Big Apple Birthday (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Blue Nude (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Gerardo Amato, Susan McBain, Renato Romano, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart
• Director: Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Luigi Scattini

Blue Voodoo (1984)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Samantha Fox, Vanessa del Rio, Jean Dalton
• Director: Armand Weston

California New Wave (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Candy Stripers (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Chris Cassidy, Nancy Hoffman, Amber Hunt
• Director: Bob Chinn

Chameleon (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Ellen Blake, Robert Glaudini
• Director: Jon Jost

Christmas Snows, Christmas Winds (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Ivan Crosland
• Director: Sterling Van Wagenen

City Archives (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Columnburium (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Controlling Interest: The World of the Multinational Corporation (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Whack Attack (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Philip Michael Thomas, Rosalind Cash, Frankie Crocker, Vernee Watson-Johnson
• Director: Oscar Williams

Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Der Graf von Ru (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Don't Count on Us (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Sergio Nuti
• Director: Sergio Nuti

Double Strength (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Barbara Hammer
• Director: Barbara Hammer

Duplicity II (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Electric Light Orchestra: Discovery (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan, Mik Kaminski
• Director: Mike Mansfield

Episodic Generation (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Every Girl Should Have One (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Robert Alda, Alice Faye, Herb Vigran
• Director: Robert Hyatt

Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (1980)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Feyzo, the Polite One (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Adile Naşit, İlyas Salman, Kemal Sunal
• Director: Atıf Yılmaz

Forever and Always (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Godzilla 12: Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Yuriko Hishimi, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Minoru Takashima, Tomoko Umeda
• Director: Jun Fukuda

Godzilla 13 - Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Robert Dunham, Hiroyuki Kawase, Katsuhiko Sasaki
• Director: Jun Fukuda

Nuclear Terror (1977)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, Gordon Jackson, John Vernon
• Director: Ashley Lazarus

Grand Opera: An Historical Romance (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Michael Snow
• Director: James Benning

Guerillere Talks (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Lydia Lunch

Hardware Wars (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Jeff Hale, Frank Robertson
• Director: Ernie Fosselius

Hot Honey (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Jamie Gillis
• Director: William Lustig

Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell (1977)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Lindsay Bloom, Royal Dano, Victor Holchak, David McLean
• Director: Larry Buchanan

I Was a Contestant at Mother's Wet T-Shirt Contest (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Jokes My Folks Never Told Me (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Dave Adams, J.J. Barry, Warren Burton
• Director: Gerry Woolery

Kahala (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

The Barricade at Point Du Jour (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Danièle Delorme, Anicée Alvina, Jean-Luc Bideau, Philippe Noiret
• Director: René Richon

Les amours sous la révolution: La passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Bernard Alane, Françoise Christophe, Claude Jade, Jean Martinelli
• Director: Jean-Paul Carrère

Likely Stories, Vol. 2 (1983)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Paul Reubens, Patrick Macnee, Sarah Torgov
• Director: David Wechter

Lmno (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Long Journey Back (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Cloris Leachman, Stephanie Zimbalist, Katy Kurtzman
• Director: Mel Damski

In Search of Manbeast! Myth or Monster Specials (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Don Hood
• Director: Nicholas Webster

Mandy's Grandmother (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Maureen O'Sullivan, Philip Carlson, Amy Levitan, Kathryn Walker
• Director: Andrew Sugerman

Mr. Too Little (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Ray Ballard, Rossano Brazzi
• Director: Stuart E. McGowan

Murita Cycles (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

My Boys Are Good Boys (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Ida Lupino, Ralph Meeker, Lloyd Nolan, Sean Roche
• Director: Bethel Buckalew

My Name Called Bruce (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Castles of Clay (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Derek Jacobi, Orson Welles
• Director: Alan Root

Mystery of the Sacred Shroud (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's the Bollocks (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Chris Frantz

Newtonian I (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Newtonian II (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Night of Dreams (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Nightmare Series (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

One Night a Week (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One-Two-Three (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Outside Chance (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Yvette Mimieux, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Susan Batson

Pass/Fail (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Pearl Harbor & the Explosions (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Pearl E. Gates
• Director: Geoff Leighton

Pencil Booklings (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Purity, and After (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Sammy Stops the World (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Sammy Davis Jr.
• Director: Mel Shapiro

She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Lydia Lunch

Sketches of a Strangler (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Allen Garfield, Meredith MacRae
• Director: Paul Leder

So Long to Run (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: John Dunsworth

Squires of San Quentin (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Sun Tunnels (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Teenage Father (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Suzanne Crough
• Director: Taylor Hackford

The Adventures of Jody Shanan (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Year of the Caribou (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

The Barking Dog (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Mary Logan
• Director: Alan Smithee

The Brain Leeches (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

The Girl with the Red Scarf (1977)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Kadir İnanır, Ahmet Mekin, Türkan Şoray
• Director: Atıf Yılmaz

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Director's Cut) (1976)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Seymour Cassel, Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey
• Director: John Cassavetes

The Lost City of Atlantis (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

The Lucifer Complex (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Robert Vaughn, Aldo Ray, Merrie Lynn Ross, Keenan Wynn
• Director: Kenneth Hartford, David L. Hewitt

Deviation (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Carol Kane, Lee Grant, Will Geer
• Director: Karen Arthur

Tut: The Boy King (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Orson Welles

UFO: Top Secret (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Uncle Joe Shannon (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Burt Young, Jason Bernard, Doug McKeon, Madge Sinclair
• Director: Joseph C. Hanwright

Unknown Powers (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Samantha Eggar, Jack Palance, Will Geer

Visions of a City (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Michael McClure
• Director: Lawrence Jordan

Woman in Love (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Samantha Fox, Vanessa del Rio, Laurien Dominique
• Director: Kemal Horulu

Xenogenesis (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

• Main cast: Margaret Undiel
• Director: James Cameron, Randall Frakes

Zerda's Children (1978)
Premiere January 1, 1978

Beartooth (1978)
Premiere January 2, 1978

• Main cast: Judy Nugent, Buck Taylor, Dub Taylor
• Director: Zack Belcher

Everest Unmasked (1978)
Premiere January 2, 1978

• Main cast: Leo Dickinson, Peter Habeler, Reinhold Messner

Hawaii Heat (1978)
Premiere January 2, 1978

• Main cast: Lisa Hartman, Robert Hegyes, Debralee Scott
• Director: Tony Mordente

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank (1978)
Premiere January 2, 1978

• Main cast: Carol Burnett, Charles Grodin, Linda Gray, Alex Rocco

The Living Sands of Namib (1978)
Premiere January 2, 1978

• Main cast: Burgess Meredith
• Director: David Saxon

Works in the Field (1978)
Premiere January 2, 1978

Manimals (1978)
Premiere January 3, 1978

Coma (1978)
Premiere January 6, 1978

• Main cast: Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Geneviève Bujold, Elizabeth Ashley
• Director: Michael Crichton

Il lupo dei mari (1975)
Premiere January 6, 1978

• Main cast: Barbara Bach, Chuck Connors, Giuseppe Pambieri
• Director: Giuseppe Vari

9/30/55 (1977)
Premiere January 6, 1978

• Main cast: Richard Thomas, Deborah Benson, Lisa Blount, Susan Tyrrell

Leave Yesterday Behind (1978)
Premiere January 11, 1978

• Main cast: Carrie Fisher, Buddy Ebsen, John Ritter
• Director: Richard Michaels

Dirty Lilly (1978)
Premiere January 12, 1978

• Main cast: C.J. Laing, Sharon Mitchell, Marlene Willoughby
• Director: Chuck Vincent

The Duellists (1977)
Premiere January 13, 1978

• Main cast: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Edward Fox, Albert Finney
• Director: Ridley Scott

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1977)
Premiere January 15, 1978

• Main cast: Edward Herrmann, Ramon Bieri, Blythe Danner, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
• Director: Fielder Cook

Nowhere to Run (1978)
Premiere January 16, 1978

• Main cast: Linda Evans, Allen Garfield, David Janssen
• Director: Richard Lang

The Late Great Planet Earth (1979)
Premiere January 17, 1978

• Main cast: Judith Roberts, Orson Welles
• Director: Robert Amram, Rolf Forsberg

Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)
Premiere January 18, 1978

• Main cast: Susan Sarandon, Joe Don Baker, Larry Hagman
• Director: Alan Gibson

Standing Tall (1978)
Premiere January 21, 1978

• Main cast: Robert Forster, Will Sampson
• Director: Harvey Hart

The Mud Monster (1978)
Premiere January 21, 1978

• Main cast: Barnard Hughes, JoBeth Williams, Richard Fitzpatrick, Granville Van Dusen
• Director: Noel Black

The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978)
Premiere January 23, 1978

• Main cast: Alan Arkin, Richard Jordan, Donald Pleasence
• Director: David Lowell Rich

Renaldo and Clara (1978)
Premiere January 25, 1978

• Main cast: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Ronnie Hawkins
• Director: Bob Dylan

Verna: USO Girl (1978)
Premiere January 25, 1978

The Serpent's Egg (1977)
Premiere January 26, 1978

• Main cast: Liv Ullmann, Heinz Bennent, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe
• Director: Ingmar Bergman

From Holly with Love (1978)
Premiere January 28, 1978

• Main cast: Patty Boyd, Michael Gaunt
• Director: Roberta Findlay