'Gone With the Wind' Should Just Be Gone

Film critic J Hoberman was sitting at his desk in the offices of legendary defunct paper The Village Voice in the early ’90s when the phone rang. “I received a call from an assistant editor at Entertainment Weekly who thought it would be fun to publish an article on the 10 worst films of all time and was polling various critics. I told him that although it would take me a bit of time to compile a list, I could give him the worst film off the top of my head: Gone with the Wind. Addressing me as though I were a backward child, he explained that they were interested in the worst films, not the best ones. I assured him that I understood and asked that he call back in an hour to get my other nine films. Needless to say, I never heard from him again.”