The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Wild Geese (1978)
I saw The Wild Geese for the first time on a crummy old UHF station when I was a kid and even then I knew...
Magic (1978)
There must have been, I can imagine, a great temptation to turn a movie like Magic into a freak show, an exercise in exploitation that...
Caravans (1978)
Caravans is the kind of movie made by, and for, people who constantly say “Why don’t they make movies like that anymore,” and then when...
Comes a Horseman (1978)
A good follow-up is hard to come by, and that’s what happened with Alan Pakula who followed his great 1976 Watergate thriller All the President’s...
Halloween (1978)
I was about 9 years-old when I saw Halloween for the first time, and if it is true that the movies that you are exposed...
The Late Great Planet Earth (1978)
Well, that’s it!We’re doomed!Get yourself a shovel, son.It’s about to get deep!According to this movie, the Bible says that the human race is headed on...
Goin’ Coconuts (1978)
I had no idea until about three hours ago that Donny and Marie Osmond had a feature film. Having seen it, I can say that...
