Editing David Stratton (section)

==Career==
Stratton arrived in Australia in 1963 under the "[[Ten Pound Poms|ten pound]]" migration scheme.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Maddox |first=Garry |date=2024-10-11 |title='I thought I'd go completely blind': Cruellest blow for a movie critic hits David Stratton |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/i-thought-i-d-go-completely-blind-cruellest-blow-for-a-movie-critic-hits-david-stratton-20240926-p5kdt6.html |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref> He soon became involved with the local [[film society]] movement. He directed the [[Sydney Film Festival]] (a job he landed after fighting [[film censorship]]<ref name=hennessy2023/>) from 1966 until 1983. At the time, he was the subject of surveillance by the [[Australian Security Intelligence Organisation]] (ASIO), due to the festival showing [[Cinema of the Soviet Union|Soviet films]], and his late-1960s visit to [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russia]]. This information was not made public until January 2014.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/david-stratton-oblivious-hes-been-cast-as-a-spy-asios-vault-shows-its-odd-choice-of-surveillance-targets-20140103-309hu.html|title=David Stratton oblivious he's been cast as a spy|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]| date=4 January 2014 | access-date=4 January 2014|last=Fenely|first=Rick}}</ref><ref name=asio/>

Stratton worked for [[Special Broadcasting Service|SBS]] from 1980, acting as their film consultant and introducing the SBS Cinema Classics on Sunday evenings and Movie of the Week for 24 weeks a year.<ref name=evershed2014/> From 30 October 1986<ref name=nfsa2011>{{cite web| url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/and-silver-goes-margaret-and-david| website= [[National Film and Sound Archive]]| title=Celebrating 25 years in 2011| first= Jan |last=Thurling |date=2011  | access-date=1 January 2024}}</ref> onwards Stratton co-hosted the long-running SBS TV program ''[[The Movie Show]]'' with [[Margaret Pomeranz]], who was also the show's original producer. Stratton and Pomeranz (often referred to as "Margaret and David"<ref name=evershed2014>{{cite web | last=Evershed | first=Nick | title=At the Movies: Margaret and David's most divisive films revealed | website=[[The Guardian]] | date=16 September 2014 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/sep/16/at-the-movies-margaret-and-davids-most-divisive-films-revealed | access-date=30 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=What Margaret and David say about 500 Oz Movies | website=Ozflicks | date=13 September 2016 | url= https://ozflicks.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/what-david-and-margaret-say-about-400-oz-movies/ | access-date=30 December 2023}}</ref>) left SBS in 2004.<ref name=hennessy2023/><ref name=abcprof>{{cite web| url=http://www.abc.net.au:80/goldcoast/stories/s1076954.htm| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080304143210/http://www.abc.net.au:80/goldcoast/stories/s1076954.htm| publisher= [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|website= ABC Gold and Tweed Coasts| title= David Stratton| date= 7 April 2004| first= Jane| last= Cowan| archive-date= 4 March 2008}}</ref>

From 1 July 2004,<ref name=nfsa2011/> they co-hosted the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] film show, [[At the Movies (Australian TV program)|''At the Movies with Margaret and David'']].<ref name="atmprof">{{cite web |date=2014 |title=David Stratton |url=http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s1138600.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706201441/http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s1138600.htm |archive-date=6 July 2017 |website=At the Movies with Margaret and David |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref> On 16 September 2014, Stratton and Pomeranz announced that they would be retiring at the end of the 2014 series. The ABC confirmed that the series would end, with the last episode broadcast on 9 December 2014.<ref name=atmend>{{cite news|title=Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton roll end credits on 28-year film review partnership; ''At The Movies'' will not return to ABC in 2015|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-16/margaret-pomeranz-and-david-stratton-roll-end-credits/5747214 |access-date=16 September 2014|work=[[ABC News (Australia)]] |date=16 September 2014}}</ref> 

Stratton wrote for US film industry magazine ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' from 1984,<ref name=hennessy2023/> and has also written for ''[[TV Week]]''. Stratton has presented a number of film reviews for [[Palace Nova]] cinemas, which are posted on their website.<ref>{{cite web |date=1 January 2024 |title=David Stratton Recommends |url=https://www.palacenova.com.au/david-stratton-recommends |access-date=1 January 2024 |website=Palace Nova}}</ref>

He lectured in film history at the [[University of Sydney]]'s [[University of Sydney Centre for Continuing Education|Centre for Continuing Education]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cce.sydney.edu.au/course/AHWC |title=A History of World Cinema Course with David Stratton|access-date=10 August 2015}}</ref> from around 1988 until December 2023, during which he covered around 840 films and showed 7,506 film clips. Many of his students re-enrolled year after year.<ref name="hennessy2023">{{cite web | last=Hennessy | first=Kate | title=David Stratton's closing credits: 'I've done the best I could' | website=[[The Guardian]] | date=22 December 2023 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/23/david-strattons-closing-credits-ive-done-the-best-i-could | access-date=30 December 2023}}</ref>   

In 2008 he released his autobiography called ''I Peed on Fellini'', a reference to a drunken attempt to shake director [[Federico Fellini]]'s hand while using a [[urinal]].<ref name="fellini" /> {{as of|2024}}, he had authored six books.<ref name="hennessy2023" /><ref name=":0" />