The Stan Lee-published FILM INTERNATIONAL was ''a magazine devoted to the multi-faceted aspects of the film world" and intended for adult readers. It lasted for only four issues, all in 1975. By this time, Martin Goodman had left Magazine Management and was trying to make a go of it with Atlas/Seaboard Comics. Stan Lee was busy as editor of the black and white magazine line there.
The editor of FILM INTERNATIONAL was Alan LeMond who was also editing NOSTALGIA ILLUSTRATED at the same time. The consulting editor was noted film critic Hollis Alpert who is best known for founding the National Society of Film Critics. The vice president of production was another Marvel alumnus, Sol Brodsky, who held a similar post at Skywald Publications and was about to see his company--co-owned with Israel Waldman--also fold in 1975.
The lead story in this issue (May 1975) is a lengthy and insightful essay by Charles Champlin focusing on violence in the cinema. Champlin got his start writing for LIFE and TIME. He was also the long-time film critic for the LOS ANGELES TIMES. While at the TIMES he co-founded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Here, Champlin provides a well-written job contrasting the two perennial film bugaboos and bedfellows -- sex and violence.
Read another post about violence in the movies HERE.
