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George Lucas: Maker of Films (1971)

Jun 20, '09  ·  19 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

George Lucas on the set of THX 1138

Though it doesn’t quite beat a certain 125-page story conference transcript, I’ve managed to get my hands on what I think can rightfully be called a Lucas-rarity. It’s been referenced in a couple of books on Lucas1, but isn’t to my knowledge generally available, though it should hold the interest of anyone interested in THX 1138, American Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and filmmaking in general in the late 60’s and early 70’s.

Allow me to first give it some context (or skip to goods):

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  1. Page 47 of The Cinema of George Lucas and several places in Droidmaker [↩]

John Milius on Apocalypse Now

Mar 23, '07  ·  1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

I picked up The Apocalypse Now Book recently, and I’m eager to read it. Few movies — in fact, I can’t think of any off the top of my head — are as all-engrossing and poetic to me as Apocalypse Now.

I would buy the recent Dossier edition DVD set, but it still isn’t available in Denmark, and Sandrew-Metronome won’t allow for Danish stores to carry the region 1 set. Understandable; imagine what would happen if I could just walk into a store and buy it?! The horror. The horror.

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