Though I was too young at the time to completely appreciate it, PBS' 1972 series Film Odyssey, hosted by critic Charles Champlin, changed me irrevocably. I never hung around for Champlin's post-movie interviews with filmmakers, which is something I would eat with a spoon today.
But what the series certainly did was kindle my love for movies by showing me they were more than what were shown on TV to fill afternoon and late night time slots. This list of the movies shown is, in part, to help me track down the films I didn't see, and to help my son in his filmic education.
