The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Teachers (1984)
Teachers, from high school on down, are an interesting lot. They are a mixture of people who are either staunchly professional, dedicated to molding young...
Windy City (1984)
I would rather eat a two-by-four than watch this movie again. Windy City is so saccharine sweet that I just wanted to throw salt on it. ...
Until September (1984)
I begin with the movie’s poster, which is a colossal miscalculation. That’s fitting because this whole movie is a colossal miscalculation. It features the film’s...
Places in the Heart (1984)
Places in the Heart is a one of those farmer’s wife vs. the bank movies in which a woman of resolve and determination battles not...
Amadeus (1984)
I didn’t really want to see a movie about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I had an idea of what it might look like; a dusty old...
A Soldier’s Story (1984)
Perhaps only director Norman Jewison could answer this question, but I am wondering if A Soldier’s Story isn’t supposed to be an extension of In...
Bolero (1984)
By strange twist of fate, I happened upon the John and Bo Derek sex film Bolero on the exact same day that I saw Until...
