Escaping Modesto
Dissecting George Lucas' early films, THX 1138 (1971), American Graffiti (1973), and Star Wars (1977), based on their autobiographic qualities, this short documentary investigates the advantages and disadvantages of reviewing a complicated cinematic work through the lens of an individual auteur. Does a filmmaker, particularly one whose films are drawn from personal experience, have the right to restrict access to their original works by substituting theatrical releases with director endorsed re-edits?

similar movies
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
1994
genre:Documentary
TV Movie
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
1998
genre:Documentary
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996
genre:Documentary
Pelé
2021
genre:Documentary
Ongoing Smile
2013
genre:Documentary
Tyson
2008
genre:Documentary
Drama
BTS 4th Muster: Happy Ever After
2018
genre:Music
Documentary
Esther Williams: Hollywood's Mermaid
2024
genre:Documentary
TV Movie
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
2023
genre:Documentary
History
Red Dwarf: All Change - Series III
2003
genre:Documentary
Power and Paranoia of the Third Reich
2018
genre:Documentary
War
History
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
2005
genre:Documentary
Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône
2015
genre:Documentary
BTS 2021 MUSTER: SOWOOZOO
2022
genre:Music
Documentary
Le regard de Georges Brassens
2013
genre:Documentary
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
genre:Documentary
Palin on Redpath
1997
genre:Documentary
History
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
genre:Documentary
Drama
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
2022
genre:Documentary
Søren Kam: Nazisten, der aldrig fortrød
2017
genre:Documentary