A weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Kurt Russell, Donald Pleasence and Ernest Borgnine star in
Escape from New York (1981), director John (Halloween and The Fog) Carpenter's nightmare vision of American lawlessness in 1997. Bo Derek becomes the 14th actress to play Jane, and newcomer Miles O'Keeffe portrays her jungle hero in
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981). Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and director Karel Reisz talk about the making of
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), based on John Fowles' best-selling novel.
—Radio Times