The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
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 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...
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...
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
God love The Academy for trying to stay topical. Between 1979 and 1981 the divorce rate in The United States was at an all-time high. ...
1941 (1979)
I suppose that every great director has to have at least one movie that tests the patience of the audience. For Spielberg, that was a...
Chapter Two (1979)
I generally have a problem with Neil Simon’s work, and I say that knowing what a celebrated playwright he was. Who am I to question...
Wise Blood (1979)
John Huston’s Wise Blood is a movie in which I merely stand ringside. That’s not a good thing because it means that I stand away...
