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101
KPBX 91.1fm, Friday, 6:30pm
KSFC, 91.9fm, Saturday, 6pm
Bob Glatzer, Dan Webster,
and Mary Pat Treuthart
review movies (and each others' tastes) in a
roundtable discussion each week
from the KSFC studios.
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Movies 101
Bob Glatzer
is a former New York film director now turned film critic and writer.
Dan Webster is the Spokesman-Review film critic, who got seriously
into movies back in his UC San Diego days. Mary Pat Treuthart is
a tenured law professor and happens to be Dan's wife. Throw in KPBX classical/jazz
host and film lover Leonard Oakland, and the occasional guest reviewer,
and you have Movies 101 – the weekly film review program on KPBX
and KSFC.
The program
began mid-1999, as KSFC started establishing itself as a separate news
and information service. As KSFC as matured, so has Movies 101. The program
now airs Saturday evenings at 6 on KSFC, and Fridays at 6:30 p.m. on KPBX.
A few people
have written in with their opinions on what the reviewers have said, and
Bob hopes that continues. “Call, e-mail, beat us on the head with responses,”
he says. “I’d eventually like to be the Car Talk of films, where
people can call in on the air.” Bob is used to getting responses to his
reviews. “My kids call me on what I’ve said. When my son was eight, he
heard me pan “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” He wrote a letter to the station,
and the next week the announcer read the letter on the air: ‘My father
is a terrible reviewer.’ And my 29-year-old daughter just got me for giving
away the ending to a movie.”
So what does
it take to go from film fan to film critic? Bob says a lot of study of
the history of film and the different structures. “You need to have spent
some time dealing with the historical development, each era of film, in
a number of different countries. There are so many genres … Film Noir,
Neo-Noir films, Hollywood Musicals … you treat each film as an art form,
being aware of its complexities. Then, you need to be acquainted with
the bulk of directors and actors who created that art form. For example,
you need to know WHY Charlie Chaplin was the genius he was, as opposed
to other good comedians,” he says.
“Today, we
tend to devalue film. We can go at any time, watch a video. We tend to
take it for granted.” Hopefully, he says, Movies 101 will help people
consider the writing, directing, and acting, and help people know how
to articulate what they think of a movie."
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