Category: The Star Wars Archives: Episodes IV-VI, 1977-1983
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Book Review: ‘The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005’ (Taschen 40 Edition, 2023)
The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005 – Taschen 40 Edition (2023) By: Paul Duncan, with Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc Publisher: Taschen Books Reviewer’s Note In January of 2021, I purchased, purely on impulse, the original Collector’s Edition of The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005, a hefty 600-page tome about the making…
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Book Review: ‘The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005’
Movies are an illusion. Cinema is the art of the moving image; the moving image isn’t more truthful than are cave paintings, or hieroglyphics, or the Sistine Chapel. What the artist finds is the truth behind the “truth.” Art portrays the aspirations of the society in which it is made.- George Lucas, The Star Wars…
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Book Talk: ‘The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005’….Look at the Size of that Book!
Hi again, Dear Reader. It’s now late afternoon and heading into early evening here in New Hometown, Florida. Currently, it’s 63˚F (17˚C) under cloudy skies. With the wind blowing from the west-northwest at 13 MPH (21 KM/H) and humidity at 63%, the feels-like temperature is 63˚F (17˚C). The light that attempting to stream through my…
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Book Review: ‘The Star Wars Archives: Episodes IV-VI, 1977-1983 (40th Anniversary Edition)
In the beginning, I was struggling with the plot, just figuring out what it was going to be. I had a sense of what the Force was, how it worked, and they could do with it, but the story didn’t have room for that – yet. – George Lucas to Paul Duncan, explaining how the…
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