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This is how George Lucas remembers growing up in his new film, American Graffiti.
Lucas looks at 1962 with a critical eye. He attempts a serious examination of the era's inner dynamic. He is not always successful here, but after the corn of The Summer of '42, the effort is appreciated.
The sympathy Lucas feels for his characters transports nostalgia beyond passive entertainment. We are not looking at stick figures in dubious situations. These are people, much like ourselves, going through the same trials that we must face.
The movie is cast in the mold of one of those teen-age escapade flicks with which American International Pictures used to stock the drive-ins during the late 1950s and the '60s. This allows Lucas to mock, carefully and compassionately, the conventions and stereotypes of a genre as...
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...