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	American Graffiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Graffiti is a 1973 film directed by George Lucas.
		American Graffiti starred Richard Dreyfuss (Curt Henderson), Ron Howard (Steve Bolander), Paul Le Mat (John Milner), Charles Martin Smith (Terry Fields), Candy Clark, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips and Harrison Ford.
		Both shows also featured as their theme song "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets, which led to the song returning to the American record charts in 1974, 20 years after it was recorded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Graffiti (683 words)

	'More American Graffiti' - Laserdisc Review [SMR]
		George Lucas’; 'American Graffiti' was heretofore one of the worst pan-and-scan jobs in laser history, with a blurry image, over-saturated fleshtones and a clumsy sound mix that was an insult to the vintage rock ‘n’ roll tunes playing throughout the film.
		You’d never guess that 'American Graffiti' is 23 years old—there’s not one speckle of dirt nor one scratch or splice in the entire film.
		MCA neglected to letterbox 'More American Graffiti', and even though the film doesn’t hold a candle to its predecessor, it has its fans and, given the long-in-the-waiting reissue of 'American Graffiti' in widescreen, the time is ripe for a remastering of the sequel, too.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~robinson/Reviews/American-Graffiti-Review.htm (708 words)

	American Graffiti (1973) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		American Graffiti has four teenage boys who cruise in different directions in their hometown where some question their own faith.
		Terry who thinks he is a reject is now proved that he is a man as he cruises the streets with the girl on his arms, and just trying to prove that even nerds have their moments as well.
		American Graffiti in my opinion is a retrospect of the good times that people had when everything was innocent, in an era where crusin' was important, especially rock n' roll.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on American Graffiti at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The tagline for American Graffiti is "Where were you in '62?" It's meant to evoke nostalgia in its target audience, mainly those in the same age group as George Lucas.
		American Graffiti showcases the lives of a bunch of teenagers in 1962...
		American Grafitti is the movie that spawned the nostalgia boom of the early 70's, and launched the careers of many stars, such as Ron Howard (Happy Days), Cindy Williams (Laverne and Shirley), Suzanne Sommers (3's Company)(as the blonde in the T-Bird),...
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	Blogcritics.org: American Graffiti
		There were, of course, other teenage movies before Graffiti, but Graffiti didn't have the cautionary tone of Blackboard Jungle, the sturm und drang of Rebel without a Cause, or the sheer silliness of the Beach Blanket films.
		Graffiti, on the other hand, has a very natural tone to it, which was probably helped by its rushed shooting schedule.
		Graffiti has its laughs, its emotional moments, and its dramatic moments, but it's the last five minutes of the film that elevates it to true greatness.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/08/03/173240.php (1954 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: American Graffiti
		Lots of people have sneered at the American culture of the fifties and early sixties -- examples are too numerous to mention, from opinion makers like historian David Halberstam to films like Pleasantville -- and we are supposed to believe it was a time of naiveté and paranoia and injustice.
		The average Americans depicted in Lucas’ film were unaware of all the ground that was being broken, but they shared the confident attitude and restless spirit of the time.
		American Graffiti is a successful tribute to an era of optimism and competitiveness which was bitchin’ -- and now seems very far in the past.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/2a288f0bc7756a6388256ff700659280?OpenDocument (556 words)

	MMI Movie Review: American Graffiti
		And he put a lot of writing on the wall in "American Graffiti." As John Milner bemoans from the throne of his ‘32 Ford Coupe, the Beach Boys on the radio sound suspiciously like the beginning of the end of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
		"American Graffiti" was also one of the first films to enlist a compilation soundtrack.
		And in choosing the name “American Graffiti” as opposed to a title that might get slapped on the typical teen comedy, like “One Wild Night” Lucas acknowledges that he was after something bigger.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/american-graffiti.html (516 words)

	MCA DiscoVision - American Graffiti
		However, there are periods in the film where the audio is muted down, either in an attempt to subdue the soundtrack for other audio, or to try and create an atmosphere based on the scene.
		Initial shipments of American Graffiti had a "stereo" sticker on the shrink wrap in the lower right-hand corner.
		The CLV edition of American Graffiti replaced the CAV version and was spanned across 2 sides.
	www.blam1.com /DiscoVision/Universal_Pictures/16-001.htm (622 words)

	ezFolk Media Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The idea was to capture and sustain an end-of-summer, end-of-innocence mood that's in the air throughout the picture-- not as a shortcut to establishing a period (as in Robert Zemeckis'Forrest Gump).
		"American Graffiti" was one of the first movies to use wall-to-wall pop music, and Lucas used the songs to underscore or counterbalance his nostalgic high school fantasy set in '62.
		"Graffiti", therefore, features three times the songs of a typical movie, since the labels had not yet noticed that they could rake it in by licensing songs to Hollywood, and stands as the best collection of the music that defined the late 50's, early 60's.
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	Strange Magic: Pop Soundtracks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		American Graffiti appeared more or less simultaneously with Mean Streets in 1973, and even though the style and sensibility of their directors are worlds removed from each other, the two films are closer than you might think in the way their characters relate to pop music.
		American Graffiti, where the music would seem to be of paramount importance to Lucas' cross-section of seven California teenagers, is somewhat trickier.
		The Virgin Suicides, High Fidelity, and American Psycho are very different films in terms of tone and genre, yet their soundtracks all feel like clear departures from the Scorsese/Lucas-influenced style of the past quarter-century.
	www.rockcritics.com /features/strangemagic.html (1973 words)

	American Graffiti
		AMERICAN GRAFFITI presents a powerful collage of youth on the brink of maturity just before the assassination of J.F.K..
		AMERICAN GRAFFITI was selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
		AMERICAN GRAFFITI was one of the first films that firmly established the importance of a new breed of American (mostly film school educated) directors sometimes known as the "Movie Brats." Also included in this school were Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Jim McBride.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/american_graffiti/about.php (898 words)

	Wedding Day Keepers - Buy More American Graffiti DVD Bridal Products Shopping Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The busy rock soundtrack is there too, but the old magic is dissipated in labored comedy and obvious social comment.
		American Graffiti was showing down the hall and we went in to watch that instead.
		I completely missed out on More American Graffiti when it was in the theatres, but caught it on a late night cable run a few years later.
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	Bad Subjects: Love is the Devil Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		With the exception of musicals, most of which had a long history prior to their translation into movie form, it was rare for a soundtrack to become a commodity with a life of its own, independent of the film for which it was produced.
		These days, of course, it's common for the soundtrack to a box-office disappointment to be the source of several hit singles or, less frequently, to become a hit itself.
		This is not to say that the hit-laden soundtracks of the blockbuster era -- and their doubles in the realms of independent and foreign film -- are in and of themselves a bad thing.
	bad.eserver.org /reviews/1999/1999-8-14-6.29PM.html (766 words)

	LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Am' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		American armored fighting vehicle production during World War II
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	Amazon.com: American Graffiti (Spanish) (Aniv) (1973) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I wasn't around in `62 -- I was born in `63, as a matter of fact, and I was 10 when George Lucas' American Graffiti was released.
		If film and television historians have it right, though, American Graffiti was the catalyst for the 1950s Nostalgia fad that begat TV's Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and the blessedly short-lived Joanie Loves Chachi (not to mention Sha Na Na and Broadway`s Grease).
		American Graffiti is a bittersweet yet comedic look at what the DVD publicity blurb says was "America's last age of innocence." In the summer of `62, JFK was in the White House, the Beatles were still unknown in this side of the Atlantic, and drive in diners and movie palaces were very popular.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305177856?v=glance (2126 words)

	Music : 41 Original Hits From The Soundtrack Of American Graffiti
		This is a soundtrack, after all, and the movie's omnipresent...
		I am personally glad that the Wolfman talks over a few of these songs -- This is a soundtrack album, after all, and the Wolfman is an integral part of the movie and the era.
		His appearance in American Graffiti was the first time the public was able to put a face to the mysterious Wolfman Jack.
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	American Graffiti (1973)
		Young George Lucas' influential hallmark film American Graffiti (1973) recreates the feel, landscape, and sounds of early 60s, small-town America - an historical time period (of JFK's Presidency and the New Frontier before the jarring assassination of late 1963 and the rest of an unpredictable era) that has since been irretrievably lost.
		The film was Lucas' homage to the memories of his own teenage years in Modesto, California, remembered with vintage cars and dragsters, drive-ins (Mel's), an almost non-stop rock soundtrack, teenage activities (hot rod crusin' and makin' out), and characteristic hair and clothing styles.
		The film is seamlessly laced with a classic rock-n-roll soundtrack composed of over forty hits (often emanating from cruising car radios, or the school dance's record player).
	www.filmsite.org /amerg.html (2861 words)

	TCM ~ THE ESSENTIALS
		They slip on an end title which they should have let the audience write for itself but, otherwise, their poise is flawless.
		Despite its crowded soundtrack and its mesmerizing flow of images, American Graffiti is a low-keyed, unpretentious movie.
		In 1995, American Graffiti was chosen by the National Film Preservation Board to be preserved in the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /essentials/2002/critics_american.html (442 words)

	Amazon.com: 41 Original Hits From The Soundtrack Of American Graffiti: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Not only does a good soundtrack album helps listeners remember favorite scenes from the movies, but it also may inspire them to explore musical styles they would have otherwise never listened to.
		I was a kid when American Graffiti came out in 1973 and went week after week to the theatre to see it.
		This is a soundtrack, after all, and the movie's omnipresent DJ, Wolfman Jack, introduces (and even sings over) some of the songs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002O81?v=glance (1939 words)

	American Graffiti (1973)
		Artfully juggling disparate plot threads, the anchor for American Graffiti is it's evocative rendering of the period.
		The soundtrack also deserves mention for being packed full of classic tunes, an exercise which engulfed 10% of the budget.
		However, you probably had to be there to experience full recognition with American Graffiti and that's a shame.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/American_Graffiti.html (682 words)

	American Graffiti Movie Poster
		Since American Graffiti has been so widely copied, it's hard to fully describe how remarkable the film was when it was first released in 1973.
		This film captured and capsulized the typical American teenage experience in the 1960's where driving up-and-down the main-drag was the primary source of entertainment in most small towns.
		American Graffiti should rank as one of the best movies ever made and is in a league with The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, Rebel Without a Cause, and Citizen Kane for it's portrayal of 1960's American teenage culture.
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	American Graffiti
		AMERICAN GRAFITTI… One of the questions most asked about American Graffiti is," how did you guys get the part"?
		We left the tracks very dry, no echo or reverb, because they would be played back over a PA system in the gym for the scene in the movie.
		It felt so incredibly good to walk out of that screening room knowing we were a part of such a fantastic movie.
	www.flashcadillac.com /FC2002_files/ORIGINAL-page6.htm (591 words)

	SH Forums - Was the CD of American Graffiti NoNoised???
		The versions contained in the remastered version are the original versions of all songs contained in the Soundtrack without the Wolfman Jack overdubs.
		The version of the American Graffiti soundtrack 2 CD set I have was remastered by Bill Inglot's team in 1993 and does have the Wolfman Jack overdubs (MCAD2-8001) and is a BMG copy I bought used.
		I just wish they had done the same with the CD release of the FM soundtrack -- that one's so sonically dead and lifeless that it had to be nothing more than a lift from a multi-generation LP compilation tape.
	www.stevehoffman.tv /forums/showthread.php?t=3106 (1301 words)

	American Graffiti Home Page (Unofficial) - Appearances, Collectibles, and Pictures
		Rich sent this PDF press release about the upcoming "Petaluma's Salute to American Graffiti" in Petaluma, CA, to be held on May 20, 2006.
		The Galaxy Drive-In Theatre in Garrett, Texas, presented American Graffiti from July 8 through the 14th, 2005.
		American Graffiti 30th Anniversary Celebration, Boise, Idaho (July 4-6, 2003)
	kathyschrock.net /graffiti/25th.htm (972 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - American Graffiti / DVD-Video
		I saw American Graffiti 23 times in theaters and countless times on VHS.
		I loved this movie the first time I saw it on an ancient VHS copy, I loved it when I saw the THX remastered VHS, and I loved it when I saw this collector's edition DVD.
		Presented in it's full and glorius 2.35:1 widescreen, which I'd never seen before, this version of American Graffiti rules.
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	More American Graffiti
		This loosely structured sequel to "American Graffiti" jumps back and forth in time, chronicling the first film's close-knit bunch of hot-rodding teenagers as they go their separate ways.
		Most of the original cast members reprised their roles for the second film, with the exception of Richard Dreyfuss, who was replaced by Will Seltzer.
		"More American Graffiti" splits the characters into four groups and depicts their lives on New Year's Eve in four different years.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/more_american_graffiti/about.php (436 words)

	FilmHead.com - Video Picks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As Outside Providence is a nostalgic look at teenage life in the 1970s from the 1990s, the second film looks back at 1962 from the 1970s.
		American Graffiti was George Lucas' first studio film, and it heralded the entrance of a new cinematic genius.
		Most impressive about this film is the score, which is a non-stop stream of hit records from the period.
	www.filmhead.com /video/2000/031500.html (291 words)

	Amazon.com: American Graffiti (Collector's Edition): DVD: Richard Dreyfuss,Ron Howard,Paul Le Mat,Charles Martin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The 1978 re-release version was re-mixed for Dolby Stereo, which was not available when American Graffiti was produced.
		When the movie was reedited in 1978, the date of his death was changed to December of 1964, most likely in anticipation of the release of its sequel, More American Graffiti.
		The original shot used in the film can be seen at the opening of the American Graffiti documentary, which is on the same 1998 Collector's Edition DVD.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078322737X?v=glance (3611 words)

	American Graffiti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A series of touching and effective vignettes, AMERICAN GRAFFITI presents a powerful collage of youth on the brink of maturity during the innocence of pre-Kennedy-assassination America.
		Lucas's second feature, AMERICAN GRAFFITI features an early screen appearance by Harrison Ford, who would figure heavily into the director's next movie, the sci-fi epic STAR WARS.
		AMERICAN GRAFFITI was one of the first films that firmly established the importance of a new breed of American (mostly film school educated) directors sometimes known as the Movie Brats.
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