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Stanley Kubrick: Eyewitness by Paul Duncan: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1077708629 Seven Scars: Noir Short Stories: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBPVZXPS
Michelangelo Antonioni talking about the future of cinema in 1982.
From Wim Wenders' documentary ROOM 666.
October 17, 2002: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: "They can fly now!!!" Early concept artwork by Ryan Church showing the clone troopers hang-gliding into the sinkhole as they begin their attack.
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Star Wars: A New Hope (1997): Digital matte artist Paul Huston, who had been a model builder on the original film, worked on the Special Edition: “Ben Kenobi’s hut was my design. I built a model and photographed it, and photographed a model of Luke’s landspeeder to use as source material.”
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October 13, 1978: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: #OTD Triple-I created this DIGITAL X-wing fighter, constructed from 60k polygons by Art Durinski, for @ILMVFX to make “Star Wars 2,” but it was too expensive. See Triple I’s test footage here: youtu.be/i8zjMQz5Ftg
14.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2Isn't that what book/film reviewers do? And then we completely ignore them and read/watch them anyway to make up our own mind? 🤔
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October 11, 1976: Star Wars: The Death Star surface & foreground guns for shot 243 were filmed. After being combined with 2 X-wings, stars, gun flash,& lasers, Lucas OK’d the shot on Dec 21, but it was redone for May 9, 1977 approval for May 25 release.
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October 10, 1996: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Doug Chiang’s concept painting for the victory celebration in Theed. It took Doug 8.3 days to complete and you can understand why.
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October 9, 1985: Star Wars: Droids: Don't you think that the Roller Gulper design for the Droids episode “The Great Heep” resembles General Grievous’s wheel bike seen 20 years later in Revenge of the Sith (2005)?
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It was a pleasure meeting Raymond Benson at the launch of his new FELIX LEITER novel THE HOOK AND THE EYE, set in a Noirish 1950s America.
We chatted about our shared love for Noir author Jim Thompson, as well as filmmakers Bergman, Welles and Melies.
Thanks to Ajay Chowdhury for the foto.
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: George Lucas writes which lightsabers are to be used by which characters.
From left: Anakin Skywalker (Ep III)/Luke Skywalker (Eps IV-V), Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Eps I-II), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Eps III-IV), Mace Windu, and Count Dooku.
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Happy to announce that ROCKY: THE COMPLETE FILMS, a photo book detailing the life of @sylvesterstallon2.bsky.social's everyman hero, will be on sale Nov (EU) / Jan (US).
Order here: www.taschen.com/.../02207/ro...
My unboxing of the SOLD OUT ART EDITION here: youtu.be/oStYNWvswBw?...
Just watched Season 4, episode 5 of @thebearfx.bsky.social and was surprised to find Ritchie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) with a copy of the 2006 MICHAEL MANN book I edited, especially because the character is a devote Ridley Scott fan.
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Did you know that James Bond was one of the influences George Lucas put into the mix when he created The Star Wars? Here's a page from my original manuscript for #StarWarsArchives19771983: youtu.be/fgKQaRMBuVs
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October 3, 2002: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: This Ryan Church concept shows a Star Destroyer (top left) docking on Mustafar, and collection panels overhanging the lava at right.
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Found this in my files—before MICHAEL MANN: THE COMPLETE FILMS was published in 2006, the chapter on COLLATERAL was published in a booklet for the 2005 Oscar run.
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October 2, 1995: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Doug Chiang (OFFICIAL)’s Tatooine concept art was later adapted for Beggar’s Canyon in the Pod Race.
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I always thought that this looked like the Pink Panthermobile.
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September 30, 1999: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: Doug Chiang’s computer generated speeder concept.
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September 26, 2001: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: Ryan Church’s concept art showing Palpatine surveying the clone troops, in formation, preparing for the war ahead. So EPIC I had to put it across a double-spread in my book.
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September 25, 1997: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: The Theed estuary scene was shot with the actors at Pinewood Studios.
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September 23, 1999: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: Jay Shuster successfully merged the eyes of the Mandalorian bounty hunter helmet with the mouth of the Stormtrooper helmet, leading to the Clone Trooper helmet.
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Happy to hear that you enjoy them. It was an amazing exprience to make them.
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September 22, 1978: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: The blueprint for the Main Hangar Deck by Michael Lamont (who worked on Bond, Harry Potter, Aliens) shows the precise location and sizes of all the vehicles, as well as the detail of the ice caves.
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September 20, 1995: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Terryl Whitlatch has air whales as part of the Gungan air force, an idea that was not used in the film. #StarWarsArchives19992005
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Vinegar Syndrome: I opened a random box at the Sony Archives and got the unmistakeable whiff of vinegar syndrome—the acetate was deteriorating and bubbbling. This is the negative of ad art from the 1959 Film Noir CITY OF FEAR. The archive scans it hi res then disposes of it.
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From the Sony Archives: Starship Troopers (1997): KNOW YOUR FOE.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? youtu.be/x2z52-PQQl0?...
September 16, 1996: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Doug Chiang’s artwork depicting the Gungan army emerging from the swamp includes the lumbering fambaa, based on a dinosaur concept, and the kaadu, inspired by an ostrich. It took him 6 days to complete. #StarWarsArchives19992005
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September 14, 1995: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Terryl Whitlatch’s concepts for “Jar Jar Binx” influenced by the attributes of frogs and dragons. Jar Jar is still very large compared with Padmé.
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From the Sony Archives: This is the giant brass pod from MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (1994) where Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh) gave birth to the Creature (Robert De Niro).
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The great Dan Kamin, mime artiste extraordinaire, is doing an online course on CHARLIE CHAPLIN. Find out more here: roundtable.org/live-courses...
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