But, none the less, what retrospective viewer didn't get goose pimples at the start of the film, when Gary Rhodes referred to its subject in the past tense, and then again, towards the end, when Allen's voiceover spoke of "pictures [of Floyd asleep], mendaciously used in Part I to suggest he was in a coma"?
The one-hour retrospective includes scenes from viewer-favorite episodes, including "I Think You're Beautiful," "Made Love for the First Time" and "The Last Waltz".
Loach turned 75 in June, and next month the BFI is showing a retrospective that will take viewers from his early television work – including the harsh, effective, 1966 exposé of homelessness Cathy Come Home – to his most recent film, Route Irish, about the experiences of private security contractors in Iraq.
New Year's Rockin' Eve 2012 brought ABC's highest ratings on New Year's Eve since ABC 2000 Today; an average 8.4 million viewers watched the 40th anniversary retrospective, the primetime hour brought in 12.9 million viewers, and the first hour of the main broadcast peaked at 22.6 million viewers.
NBC won the night in total viewers with a midcycle recap of "The Apprentice 3" at 9 p.m.: an estimated average of 11.5 million viewers chose this retrospective episode, which beat the N.C.A.A. tournament on CBS, the expected ratings champ.
And beginning on Nov. 15, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where Mr. Weiner will be given his first major American museum retrospective, he will be asking viewers to take on that responsibility, even at the risk of finding themselves, as good artists do, "perplexed in public," as he described it to Donna De Salvo, the Whitney's chief curator.
Walker never comforts nor reassures her viewers, so her retrospective would be a refreshing counterpoint to the consumer-friendly curation we've seen with MoMA pop culture icons.
This year marks her very first museum retrospective, allowing a new generation of viewers the opportunity to fall in love with her works all over again.
It is not until the fifth room of the new Agnes Martin retrospective at Tate Modern, London, that the viewer discovers the artist struggled with schizophrenia throughout her adult life.
The retrospective was viewed by an estimated 12.7 million viewers, while the finale drew 18.43 million viewers and a Nielsen rating of 11.5/18, making it the most watched episode of the final two seasons of Will & Grace.
The James Ensor retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art will affect many viewers like the detonation of a bomb whose fuse has been fizzing inconspicuously for a century.
