From the Film Vault
Program Notes: Paris, Texas (1984)
Sam Shepard doesn’t appear in Paris, Texas (1984), but his fingerprints are all over it. His dramas specialize in American families coming apart under the weight of spiritual emptiness.
New on the DVD Shelves: Exporting Raymond (2010)
When Everybody Loves Raymond ended its run after nine years and 210 episodes, creator Phil Rosenthal began thinking about whether his TV show about a bickering but basically loving middle-class family might translate to other cultures.
Program Notes: Days of Heaven (1978)
From the moment Sam Shepard first appeared on the screen in Terrence Malick’s turn-of-the-century folk-epic Days of Heaven (1978), audiences recognized something special.
Movie Quiz: Disney’s Leading Players
Match the lead character of these Disney animated films with the title of the picture they “starred” in. And try to identify the year each film was released.
Program Notes: Wait Until Dark (1967)
Today hardly anyone recognizes the name of Terence Young, director of 1967’s Wait Until Dark, a nerve-wracking crime yarn about a blind woman who is tormented in her basement apartment by a gang of nasty drug smugglers.
