enceledean · 1mo · discuss
I've been thinking too much about Star Wars lately. I reread the J.W. Rinzler trilogy of 'Making Of' books. I think they're fantastic, as someone who used to inhale as much special features DVD content as I could get while that kind of thing was still being produced. They are coffee table-sized books with a small set type, and are exhaustive accounts of the creative, legal, and financial journey those movies took to be completed. I finally watched Battle of Algiers, a phenomenal movie. There are moments you forget it is all a staged film and does not use newsreel...