Movie commentaries for television

During the years 1996-98 the Access Television Network offered me the opportunity to host two 26-week series of television broadcasts of films that I was able to handpick from a rather restricted list of films available to them. The first series ranged from older Hollywood movies to films of the 1990s. The second was divided into two parts: 18 weeks of classic film noir, and 8 weeks of films directed by John Ford. Each film showing was preceded by a commentary, and followed by another one. At the time of broadcast these commentaries were accompanied by individual clips illustrating critical points I was trying to make. But what you can see here is just the original text scripts of some of the programs, more or less unaltered. Obviously the intended audience was a broad and everyday one, and I was trying to do something not too far from serious analysis without stampeding people towards the remote.

Miscellaneous Hollywood movies

• Dark Victory (1939)

• Now, Voyager (1942)

• Deliverance (1972)

• Mean Streets (1973)

• Badlands (1973)

• All the President’s Men (1976)

• Prince of the City (1981)

• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

• Pale Rider (1985)

• Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

• Robocop (1987)