George Lucas

Reviewing Movies Like it’s 1999: PHANTOM MENACE and NOTTING HILL 0
- Film/TV
- May 19, 2021
It’s exhausting to be even the most casual of Star Wars fans. I think a lot of this collective grief can be traced back to the release of The Phantom Menace on May 19, 1999. Granted, the highly anticipated and “many years later” follow up to the groundbreaking trilogy was almost preordained to be the highest
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The INT. MAP ROOM Experience 0
- Film/TV
- May 7, 2021
In 1979, it is doubtful 30-year-old Lawrence Kasdan knew what was buried between p57 and p59. For the sophomore screenwriter, it was likely just a standard lead-in, a plot propellant that gets us into the thick of the adventure. In truth, it was to soon become an unparalleled moment in screen history, the Citizen Kane of adventure sequences – INT. MAP ROOM – DAWN.
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