Remembering MR MOVIES

GOLDEN YEARS OF HOLLYWOOD: TRIBUTE TO BILL COLLINS

Watch from June 6, Saturdays at 8.30pm on FOX Classics [113]

It’s been a year since the man affectionately known as ‘Mr Movies’ died peacefully in his sleep, aged 84. This month, FOX Classics pays tribute with a carefully curated program featuring some of Bill Collins’ all-time favourites.

Included is Gone With the Wind, which he credited with sparking his lifelong obsession with cinema, having first seen it, at age 10, in the theatre his aunt worked at.

For more than five decades, Collins (pictured, inset) spoke from the heart, sharing his passion for – and encyclopedic