American Graffiti

...of them we're seeing. Earlier triumphs include Francois Truffaut's debut The 400 Blows (1959), Ken Loach's Kes (1970) and George Lucas's American Graffiti (1973) and Bill Forsyth's Scottish charmer Gregory's Girl (1981). The 90s saw two...

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...and the National Society of Film Critics. Lucas was nominated for Oscars for Best Film Editing, Best Screenplay and Best Director, but the film failed to take home any Academy Awards. Technical Achievements Star Wars was only the...

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...budget, documentary style, using 16 mm cameras, and real soldiers. However, Lucas became involved with American Graffiti and this delayed the production of Apocalypse Now. In the spring of 1974, Coppola discussed with friends and...

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...spent time in the underground racing circuit. His love of fast cars and experiences growing up as a hotrodder became the basis for American Graffiti, one of his most critically acclaimed movies. Lucas originally enrolled in college to study...

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...to their hits of yesteryear than reviving one of America's great movie franchises. Imagine random scenes from American Graffiti (which Lucas directed in 1973), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg's 1977 film), and Jaws (Spielberg,...

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George Lucas included a tip of the hat to Starbird in his 1973 film American Graffiti in which a character named Toad comments about his friend's 1958 Chevrolet Impala, "This may even be better than Darryl Starbird's superfleck moonbird!" In...

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...in Mill Valley and Los Angeles . Lucas also intended to end American Graffiti showing a title card detailing the fate of the characters, including the death of Milner and the disappearance of Toad in Vietnam. Huyck and Katz found the ending...

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...humorously referred to as the "Downey Ducks." The movie American Graffiti, written and directed by Downey graduate George Lucas, is based in Modesto but filmed in Petaluma, California. The school that students in the film attend is...

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...stations located within the USA. In 1973 the border blaster XERB became world famous when George Lucas featured the station as the source for the musical soundtrack of his motion picture American Graffiti. In contrast to pirate radio...

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