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This is how George Lucas remembers growing up in his new film, American Graffiti...
...American Graffiti is the best and most recent in a long series of nostalgia movies. The time is the summer of '62, the summer of discontent for four Northern California boys who have just finished high school and face the uncertainties ahead with varying degrees of self-reflection...
...AMERICAN GRAFFITI takes place the night before two of the boys are to leave for college in the east. It explores, in a light-hearted and almost superficial way, the traumas of leaving home and the prospect of staying behind. The film's lightheartedness does not disguise importance of the choices each boy must make. Instead, it indicates the way that significant decisions are often made...
...show. His new station, WNBC, reaches 37 states at night. Meanwhile he is continuing a syndicated package heard on 1,453 stations. For a change of pace, he flies back to L.A. to appear on NBC-TV'S weekly rock series Midnight Special. In the new movie American Graffiti he plays himself -rather well, in fact. WNBC imported him to compete with WABC's Bruce ("Everybody is my cousin") Morrow, the reigning rock jockey of New York nighttime radio. WNBC's ad series puts the challenge bluntly: "Cousin Brucie's days are numbered! Wolfman Jack...
Lucas is a young film maker whose only other feature was THX-1138, a cool, cautionary science-fiction tale released in 1970. It established him as a director of great technical range and resource. Graffiti reveals a new and welcome depth of feeling. Few films have shown quite so well the eagerness, the sadness, the ambitions and small defeats of a generation of young Americans. Bitchin', as they said back then. Superfine. ∎Jay Cocks