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Saturday, Mar 7, 2020
8 PM (88 mins)
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THX 1138
Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie,
Francis Ford Coppola was only thirty when he opened his own independent production company, American Zoetrope, in 1969; its debut was a low-budget, dystopian science fiction film directed by another young Bay Area director: George Lucas. Robert Duvall stars as a rebel in a future where sex is illegal, robots are everywhere, and television monitors keep the populace both sedated and eternally monitored. More 1984 than Star Wars, fascinating as a glimpse into Lucas’s early talents, THX 1138 also serves as a screen history of Bay Area transit, with locales including the Caldecott Tunnel, the Posey Tube, and the then-unfinished BART tunnel under the Bay.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- George Lucas
- Walter Murch
Cinematographer
- Dave Meyers
- Albert Kihn
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 88 mins
Source
- Warner Bros. Classics