The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Elephant Man (1980)
I first heard about Joseph “John” Merrick in grade school in a section of a weekly reader magazine for kids, the same reader that also...
Kagemusha (1980)
About halfway through Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha, I kept questioning what he was trying to do. This is not a criticism; this is standard operating procedure...
Somewhere in Time (1980)
I want to love Somewhere in Time, but I come away with mixed feelings. This is a fantasy romance that spends way too much time...
Terror Train (1980)
I feel like I’ve been watching this movie all year. Every third movie I’ve seen has been a repeat of this same set-up: a group...
Coast to Coast (1980)
There is something off about the tone of Coast to Coast, something about the inward and outward plots that don’t match up. The movie is...
Oh God!, Book II (1980)
Oh, God! Book II is the story of how God came down to Earth and imparted his wisdom to a little girl and asked her...
Stardust Memories (1980)
Stardust Memories opens, rather lovingly, with a scene borrowed from Fellini’s 8-1/2. Sandy Bates (Woody Allen) sits in a train car populated by sad and...
