The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
There are a lot of things that haunt Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, but I don’t think there’s anything that gobs at it more than its...
Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
I more or less thought I knew the kind of movie that Take This Job and Shove It was promising; a slack jawed, halfwit good old boy...
Lion of the Desert (1981)
Given the difficult history of the Middle East through Western eyes it is difficult to approach a film like Lion of the Desert and not...
Caveman (1981)
I laughed about four times during Caveman and given that the movie averages about a joke every minute and a half in a 91-minute running...
Nighthawks (1981)
Nighthawks finds itself seated between two very interesting periods of Hollywood commercial filmmaking, between the last lingering days of the down-to-Earth urban thrillers started by...
City of Women (1981)
If there is one thing that I don’t want from the great Federico Fellini, it is a plate of reheated leftovers. Here is one of...
This is Elvis (1981)
If the death of Elvis Presley proved anything it might be that the cottage industry that came up around him did not die with him. ...
