Friday, 14 December 2012

American Graffiti (1973 George Lucas)

I daresay I'll upset lots of people by saying this is Lucas' only good film (he also co-wrote it).

Richard Dreyfuss, Ronny Howard, Charles Martin Smith (all pictured below), Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins and Harrison Ford are 1950s adolescents on the cusp of change, metaphorically through night into day. With Wolfman Jack.


Haskell Wexler is 'visual consultant' and Walter Murch is involved in the sound editing (there's a wonderful stereo shriek that travels from the left to right spectrum). Verna Fields is editing. So lots of good creative people on the team.

Has a bitter final title scene after an ironic ending.

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