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Josef Krebs

The /Empire Strikes Back/ director: Irvin Kershner

/S&V/ Exclusive!

[This is an extended version of the interview that appeared in the October 2004 Sound & Vision to accompany Carrie Fisher's exclusive interview with George Lucas.]

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Creating the Video Future

John Lowry uses a room full of computers to get movies ready to handle high-def DVD and beyond

Photo illustration by Eric Yang Lowry photo by John Skalicky When George Lucas needed someone to restore the first three Star Wars films to their original glory for DVD, he turned to digital pioneer John Lowry. And when the James Bond film legacy needed to be rescued from the ravages of time, the studios called on Lowry as the best man for the job.

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DVD REVIEWS: Avant-Garde

Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s
Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s Kino Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••½ Extras None This
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DVD REVIEWS: Melinda and Melinda

20th Century Fox Movie ••• Picture/Sound •••½ Extras None Woody Allen's Melinda and Melin
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DVDs: Cops, Dicks, and Cons

DVD reviews of cops and robbers movies from the '60s and '70s

From the late 1960s through the early '70s, Americans saw the crumbling of the old morality, which gave way to the new twin blights of urban decay and bad hair. If this golden age of anti-heroes and the stars who played them is your bag - if you take your detectives tough, your streets mean, and your realism gritty - then you'll want to add some of these movies to your collection.

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DVDs: La Différence

DVD Reviews of foreign films

"She ... the meaning of my life is she," crooned Charles Aznavour in his tribute to les femmes back in the early 1970s, when male French filmmakers were still inspired by that unfathomable sphinx: woman. French cinema doesn't have the same power today, and equality has normalized relations between the sexes (somewhat).

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The world of Hogwarts has never looked this good.
Warner Movie •••½ Picture •••• Sound ••••<
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Blu-ray Disc Review: Angels & Demons

The scarlet sea of cardinals’ robes are set off excellent by the black cassock of Ewan McGregor.
Sony Movie ••• Picture ••••½ Sound •••• Extras •••½

Just as faith is

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