The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Without a Trace (1983)
Given the nature of even the title Without a Trace, we kind of already know how to feel. We know that this will be a...
Reckless (1984)
Well, somebody has been gorging on a steady diet of Marlon Brando and James Dean pictures. Reckless is a movie that comes right off the...
Gandhi (1982)
once referred to Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi as a Broccoli Movie – a term that I invented to describe any movie that is no-doubt very good, but also good for you. ...
Sophie’s Choice (1982)
I firmly believe that Meryl Streep will be one of only a handful of currently working actors who will be remembered in 300 years -...
First Blood (1982)
First Blood has a very comfortable connection and a very disturbing distance from the films that seem to have inspired it. It was inspired, I...
Lookin’ To Get Out (1982)
I have a particular love for movies that take me inside and show me another world, another life, a manner of living that I am...
Class of 1984 (1982)
I have a colleague who has a deep, passionate love for Class of 1984 that I am afraid that I can’t quite share. He has...
