Friday, 27 July 2018

Unimpressed: The negative 1977 reviews of Star Wars

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Not everybody was excited by Star Wars The majority of contemporary critics liked Star Wars . When I first began researching the subj...
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Friday, 20 July 2018

The OTHER films of 1977: Star Wars vs Damnation Alley

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Damnation Alley , 1977 Star Wars was not Twentieth Century-Fox's only science fiction film of 1977. In fact, it wasn't e...
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Friday, 13 July 2018

What Star Wars owed to westerns

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Star Wars owes a lot to westerns Here's something that isn't often acknowledged about Star Wars : Parts of it are like a ...
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Friday, 6 July 2018

Hear the difference between the mono and stereo 1977 versions of Star Wars

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C-3PO had more to say in the mono mix of Star Wars If you saw Star Wars two or three times in 1977, it may not have been the same ea...
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Friday, 29 June 2018

Plain old Star Wars: Why this blog doesn't tend to say A New Hope

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Around here, we don't tend to use the phrase A New Hope . I suspect that may have cost me a bit of Google traffic, but there...
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Friday, 22 June 2018

Star Wars debuts part 2: The first work of the people behind the film

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The principal heroes of Star Wars Last time, I looked back at the earliest work of some of the older people behind Star Wars . We fo...
Friday, 15 June 2018

Star Wars debuts: The first work of the people behind the film

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Gilbert Taylor, director of photography on Star Wars Star Wars owed its huge success largely to the young people who came out to see...
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