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Roland Emmerich
Irvin Kershner
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Director / Screenwriter / Editor / Cinematographer
1944 -
Born May 14, Modesto, California, USA
Key Production Country: USA
Key Genres: Science Fiction, Space Adventure, Sci-Fi Action
Key Collaborators: John Williams (Composer), Anthony Daniels (Character Player), Ewan McGregor (Leading Player), Natalie Portman (Leading Player), Rick McCallum (Producer), Ian McDiarmid (Leading Character Player), Frank Oz (Leading Character Player), David Tattersall (Cinematographer), Ben Burtt (Editor), Gavin Bocquet (Production Designer) 
Recommended: American Graffiti (1973), Star Wars (1977), Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Film Reference ] [ Lucas Arts ] [ Lucas Film Ltd ] [ Salon Feature ] [ Mr. Showbiz Interview ] [ Star Wars.com Biography ] [ FilmMakers Profile ] [ American Masters ] [ Wired Interview (2005) ]
Books: [ Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas ] [ George Lucas: Interviews ] [ George Lucas (Behind the Camera) ] [ George Lucas: Close Up - The Making of His Movies ] [ The Cinema of George Lucas ] [ George Lucas: Creator of Star Wars ] [ George Lucas (A & E Biography) ] [ Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas ] [ Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: American Graffiti (1973), Star Wars (1977)
 
THX 1138 (1971)American Graffiti (1973)Star Wars (1977)Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
 
     
  "He made his feature debut with the science-fiction story THX 1138 (1971). The phenomenal success of Star Wars (1977) transformed him into an influential producer, technical innovator and owner of his own film empire. It also kept him away from directing for the next two decades." - (Chambers Film Factfinder, 2006)  
     
  "Along with Steven Spielberg, with whom he regularly collaborates, George Lucas is financially the most successful of the Hollywood 'movie-brats'. Revealingly, after three features he seems to have forsaken directing for producing; indeed, his importance lies less in his films themselves than in his influence on various current tendencies - including marketing - in American cinema...Even more than Spielberg, Lucas adheres to a bland, childlike and Disneyesque concept of entertainment." - Geoff Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989)  
     
  "He has been an immensely successful entrepreneur; his company Industrial Light and Magic is a pioneer in movie special effects. Whether he is capable of moving beyond the comic strip world he has created will become evident once the second Star Wars trilogy is completed." - (The Movie Book, 1999)  
     
  "Rambling nostalgia (American Graffiti, 74) and science fiction (THX 1138, 71; Star Wars, 77) have been covered by Lucas in his short career. The director shows a knack for details of time and place and the ability to produce skin-deep drama, but his excursions into more complex plots or characters are flawed." - William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978)  
     
  "You could actually go to school and learn how to make movies. Suddenly everything came together in one place. All my likes, everything I actually seemed to have talent for was right there." - George Lucas  
     
 

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