Dollar store Casablanca. Fun to see some stuff that would be directly lifted by Spielberg in Raiders, but otherwise not much here.
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Casablanca 1942
There’s not a wasted minute in it. Everyone is terrific. The way it immediately draws you into these characters and this setting with allusions to history – both real and fictional – rather than laying everything out up front is masterful. It’s about as perfect as movies get.
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Star Wars 1977
I just got to see STAR WARS projected from an immaculate 70mm print. The original STAR WARS, pre-special edition (“A New Hope” was on the crawl, but otherwise unaltered). It’s an impossible dream come true, and I’m so extremely grateful for this opportunity. It was a 70mm print struck for the UK in ‘81 that was never screened because it tore the first time it was projected. There’s about two seconds of major damage right as the Death Star explodes,…
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