George Lucas's American Graffitti - 50th Anniversary events

[BluBonnet]

This years marks the 50th anniversary of George Lucas's first mainstream hit, American Graffitti - a movie that forever changed American cinema.


There have been some events in his hometown of Modesto, CA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDrvlW6NU0Q

Fathom Events will be holding screenings in August:
American Graffiti 50th Anniversary



And some 50th Anniversary t-shirts are being sold online:

[Bluyoda]

I want a DNR free UHD, or at least Blu-ray. Love the film, and it deserves a stellar treatment. Make it happen, Universal, who have done great work in recent years.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

I want a DNR free UHD, or at least Blu-ray. Love the film, and it deserves a stellar treatment. Make it happen, Universal, who have done great work in recent years.

They should do a "director approved" UHD.

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

They should do a "director approved" UHD.

Well, as long as it's not DNR'd.

[Batmon77]

Classic but I re-watched this month and some its magic didn't work they way it used to.

Did it spearhead the return to the 50's trend of the 70's?

[Walter Kafka]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

Classic but I re-watched this month and some its magic didn't work they way it used to.

Did it spearhead the return to the 50's trend of the 70's?

Just kind of rode the wave, I think. Sha Na Na were already together. They played at Woodstock.

I'm a big fan of the 1973 concert film Let the Good Times Roll which documents a 50s revival package tour.

[spaceball-one]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

They should do a "director approved" UHD.

Does Richard Dreyfuss shoot first then?

[Deadend45]

Of course the Lucas haters over the SW SE make their way here.

Btw Lucas was hailed as a wunderkind director by all film critics when AG came out and spawned many imitations that continues to this day.

[Deadend45]

Good thing Universal owns this. Disney would just ruin it like it did all the other outstanding Lucas creations.

Having written that the BD pq is awful.

[aiman04]

I watch this regularly, at least twice every year. Enjoyed it every time.

[By_His_Strypes]

Happy Days (while not inspired by it) probably benefited by the success of American Graffiti. It may even be the reason that pilot got picked up.

[anomaly7]

Crazy to think that when this movie was made, the early 50's was just 20 year prior to 1973. That would be like releasing a movie this year that was nostalgic for 2003.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by anomaly7

Crazy to think that when this movie was made, the early 50's was just 20 year prior to 1973. That would be like releasing a movie this year that was nostalgic for 2003.

American Graffiti actually takes place in 1962

[Martoto]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

American Graffiti actually takes place in 1962

1962 was still the fifties. (Pre-Dealley Plaza, Pre Beatles, Pre escalation in Vietnam) It's kind of the point. Most of the music is from the mid to late fifties, with the Beach Boys and Del Shannon the hottest new records at the time that the movie is set. (All Summer Long, which plays over the credits, is actually from 1964 though. Not an accident, I would suggest)

Fifties nostalgia was the thing from the time this movie came out. Mid-eighties became more sixties influenced. And the glam-rock revival took off in the nineties.


But 80s nostalgia has been pre-eminent since the turn of the last century. So you could argue that the past 25 years have been more stagnant in that sense.

90s nostalgia has never really taken off in the same way. The nineties just seem like a lower tech version of the beige we've got now.

Having said that, old skool rave and hip hop has never really went away so it doesn't need nostalgia. Dreadful Britpop has mercifully not been successfully resold. Thank god. The artists from that era that matter were never really on the bandwagon and have continued doing their own thing regardless of trends or attempts to revive those days.

The truth is

[Show spoiler]a new drug will need to be invented, again, to accelerate any changes and advancements in pop music etc

[BluBonnet]

BB steelbook

[50strat54]

Great looking steelbook

[Lee A Stewart]

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