Sight & Sound articles
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From our archives: Purple Rain, reviewed
Before Prince wrote about ‘Cynthia Rose’, Cynthia Rose wrote about Prince – reviewing Purple Rain for the Monthly Film Bulletin in 1984.
Monday 1 October 1984 -
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Return of the Jedi archive review: George Lucas quits on top
The original Star Wars trilogy concludes on top form, found Philip Strick in 1983.
Friday 1 July 1983 -
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The Empire Strikes Back archive review: return of the gimmicks
In our original 1980 review of George Lucas’s first Star Wars sequel, Richard Combs found even the “genuinely ‘fun’ elements of the first film” now “pedantically filled out and institutionalised”.
Tuesday 1 January 1980 -
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope archive review: a monumentally empty blockbuster
Reviewing the original movie in the space opera franchise back in 1977, Richard Combs deemed it “the first movie to appeal to film buffs who would never dream of calling themselves that”.
Tuesday 1 November 1977 -
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The solitary pleasure of Star Wars (from our archive)
In the Autumn 1977 edition of Sight & Sound, Jonathan Rosenbaum decried the “knowing mindlessness” of George Lucas’s space mega-hit – and the sinister implications of its all-conquering escapism.
Tuesday 1 November 1977
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