The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Torchlight (1985)
I am fascinating by portraits of drug addicts, when they are done right. We see nice people, ordinary people falling down a spiral staircase of...
Maria’s Lover (1985)
I came to Maria’s Lovers with an open heart, ready to see a tense drama made by a master filmmaker and starring a cast of...
The Cotton Club (1984)
I arrive at Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club with a lot of mixed feelings. I don’t love it and I certainly don’t hate it. ...
Mass Appeal (1984)
Mass Appeal feels like something that Frank Capra might have made, and if he had, I could only wish that he included Jack Lemmon. This...
Just the Way You Are (1984)
Kristy McNicol is a man-magnet in the romantic drama Just the Way You Are. Wherever she goes, handsome men are automatically drawn to her like...
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
“The Little Drummer Girl” is the only book by John Le Carre that I have ever read all the way through, and it was a...
First Born (1984)
I knew nothing about Michael Apted’s First Born when I went in, and as the movie opened, I had some hope. In fact, for the...
