The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
I want to love Picnic at Hanging Rock so much that it hurts. Here is a strange Australian drama that spools out such a tasty and...
Once in Paris . . . (1979)
Once in Paris is hardly really a movie. It’s a project made for financial reasons. Some studio execs put a project together with a likable...
The Last Wave (1979)
There lives eternally in me a passionate love of films from Australia. Like films from Japan or Sweden, they just seem to walk and talk...
Ice Castles (1978)
When I was in the fifth grade, there was a girl that sat next to me who was forever reading a series of teen romance...
California Suite (1978)
I have a tendency to step into Neil Simon’s work with my hackles up because I generally know what I am going to get: good...
Moment by Moment (1978)
As terrible as it is, I find it difficult to be mean to Moment by Moment. No, there isn’t a second of the movie that...
Oliver’s Story (1978)
[written March 10, 2009]Here’s a confession with, I suppose, some meat on it: I didn’t like Love Story. I didn’t hate it, but it didn’t...
