Three Reasons: Island of Lost Souls (by criterioncollection)
Sunset Boulevard on this day in 1909, looking southeast from Vendome St.
The carriages and streetcars in this photo are celebrating the opening of the Hill Street Tunnel in downtown Los Angeles. The tunnel burrowed through a part of Bunker Hill (at 1st St.) and allowed for a more direct streetcar route between downtown and points west.
The last plea to George Lucas
This times 1000. Even if I didn’t care about this issue as a fan of Star Wars itself, I would care about it as an issue of film preservation.
Here’s something I’ve been meaning to get into for a while, and this seems like as good a time as any. A new fangasm of whiny, impotent rage has bubbled up across the internet because Darth Vader says “no” now instead of just silently chucking the Emperor down the pit. This latest “crisis” is but the most recent demonstration of how vain, self-serving, dim-witted and ultimately self-defeating the Star Wars fan base has become.
All the nauseating whining about this issue, like all the nauseating whining before it, is such fundamental navel-gazing that it would be well beneath discussion, were it not for the fact that this high-pitched fanboy keen has done a startlingly effective job of drowning out the real issue at the heart of the Star Wars Special Edition debate. It has done such an effective job drowning out the debate, in fact, that there is no debate at all. And there should be.
The true issue at the core of all this is very simple: there are three landmark motion pictures whose negatives have been destroyed by their creator, and which are now almost completely unavailable in screenable form anywhere in the world.
That’s it. That’s the whole problem. And instead of addressing this, ten million fanboy geeks are spending their time crying about Greedo.
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