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Saturday Night at the Movies is a long-standing tradition at TVOntario. A triple bill of feature-length films is presented every Saturday evening at 8pm EST. The movies are interpersed with clips from TVO's archives of over 1200 interviews with Hollywood actors, directors, producers and other personalities. TVO runs SNAM in conjunction with courses given at York University's film studies department and other post-secondary institutions.

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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

"Fahrenheit 451" (1966) IMDb, inspired by Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel of the same name, delivers a disturbing vision of a futuristic world where books are contraband to be burned by the state. For those of us who love books, this is a truly scary and undesirable future reality. Werner Oskar stars as the fireman who begins to question the purpose behind burning books in the oppressive police state. Julie Christie plays the double role of the witless wife of the fireman, Linda, and the open minded free spirit, Clarisse.

Check out Thom Ernst's blog for the scoop on his interview with the original author, Ray Bradbury, for the TVO Saturday Night at the Movies Interviews.

View the TVO video web preview for "Fahrenheit 451" (includes snippets of the Bradbury interview)