1990 and 1988 Devised and produced two Movie Masterclass series for Channel 4 television, an innovative way of looking, in detail, at films by great masters of cinema.
The presenter discusses with a group of students at the NFTS every aspect of a film: mise-en-scéne, editing, narrative, performance etc.
The original sessions lasted 4 hours, the edited version one hour.
(Later the format was expanded to discussing films with audiences of up to 500.)
Presented two of the programmes. The first was Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. Kurosawa Productions championed the programme, which was successfully aired in Japan on NHK
Masterclass on Satyajit Ray’s The World of Apu is an ‘extra’ on the Artificial Eye DVD of The Apu Trilogy. Satyajit Ray wrote: ‘It was a lesson for me too’
Criterion’s re-mastered The Apu Trilogy includes a 44-minute video, entitled ‘A Closer Look by Mamoun Hassan’
