The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
They Went That-a-Way & That-a-Way (1978)
Tim Conway’s career peaked in the 70s largely because he was the secret ingredient to “The Carol Burnett Show,” an insane display of virtuoso slapstick...
Oliver’s Story (1978)
[written March 10, 2009]Here’s a confession with, I suppose, some meat on it: I didn’t like Love Story. I didn’t hate it, but it didn’t...
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Hollywood did not begin to deal with the Vietnam War on film until it was over. When the war officially came to a close on...
Uncle Joe Shannon (1978)
Sometimes a movie can have so much heart and so much sincerity that you want to give it a pass no matter how schmaltzy it...
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Completely by accident, I saw Force 10 from Navarone on the exact same day as The Wild Geese, and while neither is what you might...
Movie Movie (1978)
At a moment when the movies were changing fast in the wake of the auteur era and certainly in the wake of the success of...
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
I arrive at Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings with a great many mixed feelings. This is a film of so much style, so...
