With Halloween over, Christmas is right around the corner. For Star Wars fans, what could be better than the Blu-ray set Star Wars: The Complete Saga? Some changes have been made to the original movies which has infuriated die-hard fans, but the special features (deleted scenes, featurettes, spoofs and docs) have made it a huge seller.
The 1999 spoof George Lucas in Love, which we included in our 2008 festival, is hilarious. George Lucas himself sent a congratulatory letter to the filmmakers which they included as a hidden Easter egg on the DVD. It can be watched here.
Much more biting than a spoof is the entertaining and surprisingly educational critique (coarse language advisory) of Episode I – The Phantom Menace. There’s a wealth of screenwriting lessons to be found in these seven 10-minute video segments. It makes one wonder why George Lucas thought he could ignore them.
