Best Picture: #61Original Release Date: December 16, 1988Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 13 minutesDirector: Berry Levinson Quick Impressions:“I love this movie,” I told my daughter in excitement as we prepared to watch Rain Man. Then I realized I had only seen it once (as a new release on home video when …
Best Picture: #52Original Release Date: December 17, 1979Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 45 minutesDirector: Robert Benton Quick Impressions:Kramer vs. Kramer has haunted me my whole life—not in the sense that I’ve seen it and found it moving. It was simply Best Picture the year that I was born. (At least, in …
Best Picture: #42Original Release Date:Rating: R (Originally X)Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutesDirector: John Schlesinger Quick Impressions:This week we spent fifty-nine hours without power, including one night when the temperature outside was six degrees for several hours. During that time, I couldn’t use a computer, but I still did plenty of …
