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J.X. WILLIAMS’ CINELEAKS: JX ON SFX

By | May 2011

I was particularly disgusted when George Lucas went back and started inserting his ugly digital effects into the original Star Wars trilogy. It is almost impossible to see prints of the original films today. There’s something very sad in watching a director screw up his picture retroactively…

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J.X. WILLIAMS’ CINELEAKS: JX ON SFX

Editor’s Note: The following article was published in the Winter 2011 issue of Standard, a fashion and culture magazine in Paris. The untranslated...

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