The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
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Windows (1980)
No one would actively refuse the great cinematographer Gordon Willis the chance to direct a movie. After all, this is the famed DP of such...
Just Tell Me What You Want (1980)
I have a feeling that if Just Tell Me What You Want were in the hands of a lesser director and came from a lesser...
The Best Films of 1979
This ten best list was fairly easy to make. 1979 was a good year at the movies, not just foreign films or documentaries but with...
Going in Style (1979)
I don’t think that it is too keen an observation to say that Hollywood tends to run scared from stories about elderly people. For the...
The Electric Horseman (1979)
At a moment when Hollywood seemed trapped in the crucible of Star Wars and it's imitators, there was a demand for the old fashioned kind of...
Cuba (1979)
I walked away from Richard Lester’s Cuba feeling that maybe I’d missed something, some crucial element that was tying the film together for me. It...
The Black Hole (1979)
In the science fiction sweepstakes to cash in on the success of Star Wars, Disney's The Black Hole feels very much like its trailing behind. It's not...
