The Year In Movies
May, 1981
Face it. It was a very bad year for movies. In Chicago, critics found themselves going back to 1979 for films to complete their ten-best lists (citing the incredible Black Stallion). In New York, one theater made money by running the 1979 hit La Cage aux Folles--a quaint movie about flaming gay-ety in France--for 82 consecutive weeks. L.A. film critic Charles Champlin resigned from his beat in disgust, saying that he could not write about films if there were nothing to write about. How did we fi...
