When I was in college, my buddy Kenny had a VHS box set of the original Star Wars trilogy that had no added VFX. It was the movies, the way they looked when they originally came out, and we would watch them over and over again in awe. I can still remember the puppet of Jabba in the first movie if I close my eyes and think hard enough. But seeing Star Wars the way it came out just doesn't really happen anymore. In the 90s, Lucas added a lot of CGI and has polished it over the years. The original cuts of the movies were sort of lost to time, although prints of them still exist. Well, now, one of those prints is coming back for a historic showing. The British Film Institute's (BFI) Film on Film Festival in June will be screening the original 1977 version of Star Wars. This is a significant event, as the original cut hasn't been available since 1997.According to The Telegraph, this is the first time the original print has been publicly screened since December 1978 outside of home video.George Lucas told the Associated Press in 2004 that he hasn't released the original versions for people to watch at home because “The Special Edition, that’s the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it’s on VHS, if anybody wants it. I’m not going to spend the — we’re talking millions of dollars here — the money and the time to refurbish that,...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 16 April