The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Uncle Joe Shannon (1978)
Sometimes a movie can have so much heart and so much sincerity that you want to give it a pass no matter how schmaltzy it...
Movie Movie (1978)
At a moment when the movies were changing fast in the wake of the auteur era and certainly in the wake of the success of...
Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
[written November 8, 2004]Nearly every review that I have read of John G. Avildsen’s Snow Dancing in the Big City resorts to affectionately calling it...
Caravans (1978)
Caravans is the kind of movie made by, and for, people who constantly say “Why don’t they make movies like that anymore,” and then when...
Comes a Horseman (1978)
A good follow-up is hard to come by, and that’s what happened with Alan Pakula who followed his great 1976 Watergate thriller All the President’s...
Midnight Express (1978)
How am I suppose to approach Midnight Express? I know going in that the movie is based on the true story of the nightmarish journey...
The Big Fix (1978)
The biggest problem with The Big Fix is that it never lands on an idea of what it wants to be. It’s a comedy, a...
