The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1939 features the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Civil War-era epic Gone With the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming and starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard and Hattie McDaniel, Gone With the Wind won 10 Oscars including Best Picture.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Frank S. Nugent in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1939/12/20/archives/the-screen-in-review-david-selznicks-gone-with-the-wind-has-its.html), John C. Flinn in Variety (https://variety.com/1939/film/reviews/gone-with-the-wind-2-1200412649/), and The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/may/28/archive-gone-with-the-wind-1940).
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Dredd (2012 Future Cult Classic)
Spring Breakers (2012 Dave’s Pick)
Argo (2012 Best Picture Winner)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012 Sundance Award Winner)
Goon (2012 Jason’s Pick)
The Hunt (2012 Foreign Film)
Sound Of My Voice (2012 Josh’s Pick)
Stories We Tell (2012 Documentary)
Amour (2012 Cannes Palme d’Or Winner)
John Carter (2012 Box Office Flop)
Antiviral (2012 First Feature)
The Avengers (2012 Box Office Champ)
1953 Epilogue
The War of the Worlds (1953 Audience Choice)
Glen or Glenda (1953 Future Cult Classic)
House of Wax (1953 Dave’s Pick)
From Here To Eternity (1953 Best Picture Winner)
I Vitelloni (1953 Venice Film Festival Award Winner)
The Wild One (1953 Jason’s Pick)
Muppets Christmas Double Feature (1977 / 1992 Holiday Bonus)
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