- Title: Bob Mckee Reel Secrets
- Date: 14th April 1992
- Summary: A PROGRAMME DEVOTED LARGELY TO 'THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY', THE INGMAR BERGMAN FILM THAT EMBARRASSED BERGMAN HIMSELF AND WHICH PARTLY AS A CONSEQUENCE HAS BEEN NEGLECTED BY SOME CRITICS. ROBERT MCKEE FEELS IT IS PERFECT, BOTH IN ITS SCREENPLAY AND ITS DIRECTION AND HE ARGUES THAT BERGMAN'S REJECTION OF IT LIES IN IT BEING TOO CLOSE TO BERGMAN'S INNER PERSONAL STRUGGLES, AS AN ATHEIST DIRECTOR BUT THE SON OF A LUTHERAN PASTOR. MCKEE WISHES TO RESCUE BERGMAN FROM THE DRY ANALYSIS OF HIS ADMIRERS AND EMPHASISES THE WAY BERGMAN USES POWERFUL STORIES TO EXPRESS DIFFICULT AND PAINFUL TRUTHS. MCKEE DOES THIS THROUGH CLOSE ANALYSIS OF 'THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY' WHICH IS THE FIRST IN BERGMAN'S TRILOGY OF CHAMBER FILMS EXAMINING LIFE IN A GODLESS WORLD. MCKEE SETS OUT WHY FOR HIM THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST FILMS EVER MADE.
- Description:ICONCLASTIC FILM DECONSTRUCTIONIST ROBERT MCKEE,DISECTS POPULAR MOVIES (FOR WITHOUT WALLS)
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:FULMAR WEST LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 3
- Transmission Date:14/04/1992
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s