Gary Kurtz talks
Our masters lecture got diverted tonight as we went along to a talk by Gary Kurtz, producer of American Graffiti, Star Wars and Empire Strikes back, The Dark Crystal and Two Lane Black Top amongst many many films and projects he talked about. Most of the 30 students there were fairly young so will not remember half of the stuff he was talking about but it was good for the older ones like me!
Kurtz said that the Star Wars DVDs will be coming out after the 6th (3rd) episode has been released. He also stated why he didn't like the Extended edition Release of Star Wars - and they were very valid reasons and he was trying to persuade the powers that be to release the original Star Wars along side the Extended version on DVD.
It's not often I get to listen to people talk about their work with Kubrick, Welles, De Niro, Hitchcock, Oz, and so many many other greats.
A genuinely nice chap and a splendid evening.
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