In the days when going to the cinema palace for a roadshow and being subjected to an earth-shattering moment seem all but behind us, this epic is the closest thing we have to such an experience in the 21st century.Gone with the Wind,Ben Hur,Lawrence of Arabia,Star Warsit is not. Stil...
Lucas served as executive producer of the other two episodes in the original trilogy, Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi (1983). Lucas also created the popular character of the adventurous archaeologist Indiana Jones, who was ...
Of supreme empire; this of earth’s was done — And kings crept out again to feel the sun. And here is Chesterton on Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: She is by far the most European of all the English poets of that age; all of them, even her own much greater husband...
Lucas followed the first Star Wars film by writing and producing two sequels, but he left the director’s chair.Irvin KershnerdirectedStar Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back(1980), lauded by some as the greatest of the entire Star Wars series.The Empire Strikes Backtook the audience ...
Ford achieved real success as the opportunistic Han Solo in Lucas’sStar Wars(1977). The space-fantasy film became one of the highest-grossing motion pictures of all time. Ford’s fame was cemented with the Star Wars sequelsThe Empire Strikes Back(1980) andReturn of the Jedi(1983) and wit...