The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Terms of Endearment (1983)
[reviewed February 8, 2016] Historically, I have not been entirely kind to Terms of Endearment. In at least one previous essay, I declared that I was...
Yentl (1983)
When Yentl was over, I caught myself smiling. I got caught up in the story and even teared up at one point while Barbra Streisand...
The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
When I bash the good ‘ol boy movies that Burt Reynolds makes, it is only in the hopes that he will make something serious, and...
Silkwood (1983)
I lived the early years of my life in Arkansas and my family often took road trips that took us past the Nuclear Power Plant...
Scarface (1983)
One of the saddest images in movie history occurs at the end of The Godfather Part II, as Michael Corleone sits out back of his...
The Dresser (1983)
I have seen marriages that have functioned pretty much like Sir and Norman in The Dresser. Norman, a dresser who devotes his life to the...
Testament (1983)
I entered into Lynn Littman’s Testament knowing only that it had something to do with nuclear war. I had visions of the nightmare scenario, of...
