When Cahiers did its Événement in their October 1981 issue (N.328) on Raiders of the Lost Ark for its release they could not interview either Steven
Spielberg or its producer George Lucas. So instead they reprinted a translation
of Lucas’s Film Comment interview
(edited and without its introduction) to allow for the director-producer to
speak for himself about his artistic ambitions as well as for a better
understanding of the changing commercial and production realities in America.
In the issue of FC there was also an
article Spielberg’s Express by
Veronica Geng. I recomment you check out the issue (hopefully at a library that carries it) to find the interview. It is an important historical document of Cahiers’ old Spielberg-Lucas love. Note Lucas’s emphasis on how with Coppola they were trying to re-invent American
cinema in the Eighties through engaging with new technologies and by creating an
alternative base of operation away from Hollywood. For more recent information on
Industrial Light & Magic make sure to check out Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation. – D.D.
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I recommend looking up George Lucas interviewed by Mitch Tuchman
and Anne Thompson in Film Comment (July-August 1981, Volume
17 N. 4) if you want to read it.
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