The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Priest of Love (1981)
I hear over and over again that sometimes the best advice when writing about a legendary person is to simply ‘print the legend’. Let’s face...
Only When I Laugh (1981)
I did not relate to one single thing in Neil Simon’s Only When I Laugh. Here is a comedy-drama about fractured relationships, about familial problems,...
Das Boot (1981)
I ask any film to challenge me, to ask questions, to jog my intellectual muscles and consider what is on the screen. Das Boot is...
Mommie Dearest (1981)
What a miserable, ugly experience this movie is. What unremitting pain and despair is trotted out for public entertainment. Okay, so we have it on...
Continental Divide (1981)
I suppose that all romantic comedies are basically pure fantasy, but Continental Divide kind of hits me where I live. It’s about a chubby, average-looking...
Pixote (1981)
I once heard an interview with a retired judge who had spent more than four decades in the family court in my hometown of Birmingham,...
