People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets ...
The film features a conversation between Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, producer of THX 1138. They discuss Lucas' vision for the film, including his ideas about science fiction in general and in ...
Editor’s note: THX 1138 is only playing in 20 cities, but the DVD will be available on Tuesday, Sept. 14. THX 1138 tells of a not-too-distant futuristic society, grown cold from an over-reliance on ...
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn’t be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That’s why we’ve rated them 1-5 on the patented “crunchy goodness” scale. Written by James ...
In 1971, George Lucas was pushing the theme of societal rebellion against a police state into a science fiction setting. In the original Star Wars, he took some of those THX 1138 themes and jammed ...
BEFORE he played consigliere for the Corleone family, before he strutted across the shell-pocked beach in Vietnam and declared his love for the smell of napalm in the morning, a young Robert Duvall ...
“THX 1138 feels like a hypnotic dreamscape, so luminously stark, from its white-on-white abstract sets to the wide-eyed, bald, near catatonic residents of this world.” -Washington Post A chilling ...
George Lucas is arguably the most successful and most maligned of the film-school brats who challenged Hollywood in the early '70s. He started the indie filmmaking collective American Zoetrope with ...
It's surprising that it has taken so long for George Lucas to restore and re-release his first and favourite film. Money certainly wasn't the issue, as THX-1138 is a slight film, with a plot ...