The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Author! Author! (1982)
It is tough to write a movie about a writer. What are the tenants? Writer’s block, deadlines, weak material, slipping potential. The most dramatic scenes...
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky III is about as subtle as a Sherman Tank, and that’s a giant letdown given what preceded it. Whatever complexity, humanity and warmth existed...
Circle of Deceit (1982)
Watching Volker Schlondorff’s Circle of Deceit was, for me, a humbling experience. Here I am, a well-fed American living in the quiet suburb experiencing, night...
If You Could See What I Hear (1982)
I learn second-hand that the movie If You Could See What I Hear is based on a real person, Tom Sullivan, who is blind and...
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
I really think that Neil Simon has a grasp on family drama, of people disconnected and reconnected with all of the messy emotional baggage that...
Cannery Row (1982)
It always drives me nuts when I see characters on the screen who come from a particular time and place, whose form and function in...
Night Crossing (1982)
Night Crossing was an attempt by the Walt Disney Company to abandon it’s past, to move onto more seriously and modern stories far from sentient...
