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Post #421059

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zombie84
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Star Wars (SE) shown at Piedmont Park (Atlanta)
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Date created
21-Jun-2010, 10:02 PM

CS: Not to my knowledge. This isn't official, but my impression is that SW is not allowed to be screened unless directly authorized by LFL, and that is only granted to exceptional circumstanes (Academy, AFI, etc.). It's all very Stalinist. You have to make a request to the central committe and they review the case, send you the print or file and then you have to return it within a set period. All circulating prints were recalled (and, supposedly, destroyed) prior to the SE. Since 2004, my impression was that only the 2004 SE has been screened. I don't recall any special screenings between 1997-2003, but I could be ignorant.

Of course, there are illegal and semi-legal prints that get screened, on a semi-private basis. Dale Pollock has a 70mm print of Star Wars, which I think he screens for students at USC once a year. Probably he was given the print when writing Skywalking (as there was no SW home video in the 1980-82 period in which he wrote it), and just kept it all these years.