For those who haven’t seen this yet, it’s George Lucas’s student film that later got turned into his first full-length feature, THX 1138. It’s only about 15 minutes long but it has a lo-fi abstract quality that pushes it into the realms of art cinema. Francis Ford Coppola hired George right out of art school for this one. Once it was developed into a proper movie you can see Lucas’s cinematic language start to emerge. This work also carries some common themes that emerge again in some of his later works. You can see the movie trailer for THX 1138 and a “making of” documentary linked to below. Take a deep dive into cinematic history…
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