ArtScience on Screen: Season of the Force
From 30 Jan
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ArtScience on Screen: Season of the Force
The Season of the Force is a film programme that accompanies ArtScience Museum's new exhibition, STAR WARS™ Identities. The creator of STAR WARS™, George Lucas has noted that the exhibition "will engage that connection where fantasy meets reality, with a dash of reflection and adventure.”
The Season of the Force will illuminate the cinematic universe that inspired the exhibition, through screenings from the series, plus film presentations which explore the storyworlds, ideas and visual styles which influenced George Lucas. The season showcases the timeless appeal of the iconic space opera series, as well as providing insight into the films, directors and aesthetics which shaped George Lucas' art and provided the blueprint for the canon’s universe. Season of the Force begins in January and will culminate in May around Star Wars Day – May the 4th.
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Price
Free admission with online pre-booking. Walk-ins accepted on a first-come-first-served basis, subject to venue capacity.
Line-Up
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THX 1138 (Director's Cut)
Dir. George Lucas
88 min | M18 (Sexual Scenes and Nudity)A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present in George Lucas’ THX 1138, starring Robert Duvall as a man whose mind and body are controlled by the government. THX makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime.
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The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Dir. Akira Kurosawa
139 min | PGAcknowledged as a primary influence on George Lucas’ Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress sheds light on the roots of Star Wars’ cinematic vocabulary. A grand-scale adventure that only venerated director Akira Kurosawa could create, the film stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa Uehara), as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory accompanied by two bumbling, conniving peasants.
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Elstree 1976 (2015)
Dir. Jon Spira
97 min | PGIn 1976, during the hottest summer on record, Star Wars: A New Hope was shot in suburban North London. Nobody involved had any idea how big the film would become. Yet, for the extras and actors who played aliens, storm troopers, rebels and even Darth Vader – faces hidden beneath rubber masks, plastic helmets or heavy prosthetics – these seemingly insignificant jobs would go on to change their lives forever.
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