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	Filmtracks: The Dark Crystal (Trevor Jones)
		The Dark Crystal: (Trevor Jones) Long before becoming famous for his brassy fanfares in such modern favorites as Last of the Mohicans and Cliffhanger, Trevor Jones was a regular composer for the Jim Henson productions of the 1980's.
		The ironic aspects of The Dark Crystal is that his multitude of themes for The Dark Crystal is more diverse and less simplistic than his grand Last of the Mohicans styles.
		Each set of characters has a strong theme in The Dark Crystal (including the pleasant love theme for the two Gelflings), and Jones intentionally leaves the performances of the title themes separate until the crystal is unified to fulfill the prophecy at the end of the film.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/dark_crystal.html (1340 words)

	The Dark Crystal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their wrath was particularly directed toward the elf-like Gelflings due to a prophecy that promised the restoration of the crystal and the end of the Skeksis' power.
		In the central chamber where the crystal is kept, Jen jumps onto the crystal himself but loses the shard.
		As the three suns meet Jen plunges the shard into the crystal, shattering the Garthim (who were originally created by the Skeksis, and so are not truly living beings) and reuniting the Mystics and Skeksis into their urSkek incarnations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Dark_Crystal (1335 words)

	The Dark Crystal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Dark Crystal is an imaginative masterpiece, but I couldn't help but feel the simplistic plot, 2-dimensional characters (I appreciate that making puppets' mental workings visible must be one of the hardest tasks in a movie with a fully puppet cast) patronizes the intelligence of all but the youngest children.
		Labrynth, the Dark Crystal and many other movies and television shows (that were way ahead of their time) just show how much of a genius and shows the attention to detail he offers.
		THE DARK CRYSTAL is about a young male Gelfling (think of an elf, but much smaller) named Jen and the journey he undertakes to save his world from an eternal dominion by a group of dragon-like creatures called Skesis.
	blog.markwshead.com /info2/The-Dark-Crystal.html (16197 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Dark Crystal review
		I can remember when The Dark Crystal was first released on video in the early 1980s, and my family had just bought our first VCR.
		All of the Dark Crystal trailers are pretty old and warn and were probably from someone's private collection.
		His compositions for The Dark Crystal may not be as quickly remembered as the themes for Star Wars, Superman or some of the early 80's films that this was released around.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/darkcrystal.htm (1378 words)

	The dark crystal.
		The legacy of Scred lives on in the icky Skeksis of the Dark Crystal, from the reptilian gaze to the "sk' sound in their names.
		Dark Crystal is the first work to be released simultaneously as film and computer program; and is the first computer adventure to be based on a feature film.
		The microcomputer adventure version of the Dark Crystal takes place in exactly this same world, though some very new challenges are offered.
	www.atarimagazines.com /creative/v9n3/168_The_dark_crystal.php (1744 words)

	The Dark Crystal
		The Dark Crystal is Jim Henson's crowning achievement.
		Instead of removing the darkness from their souls, the beings were split into two races.
		The Dark Crystal was re-released in 1999 with the movie re-mastered, as well as a special section of the Making of the Dark Crystal, which contains plenty of information on the movie, as well special interviews, and behind the scenes filming.
	www.thealmightyguru.com /Reviews/DarkCrystal?Film (351 words)

	"Dark Crystal" Sequel In The Works (May 14th-15th, 2005) - Dark Horizons
		The original screenplay by Annette Duffy and David Odell (the original Dark Crystal, The Muppet Show) is set many years after the events of the first movie.
		The Power of the Dark Crystal (working title), sees Jen and Kira (the original film's heroes) as King and Queen and guardians of the Crystal who fight to save their kingdom when the Crystal is once again split.
		When Jen and Kira welcome a fiery and unexpected visitor to their castle they learn that the very existence of the U-mun people, who live in the searing heat of the centre of the earth, is threatened by the death of their sun.
	www.darkhorizons.com /news05/050515d.php (516 words)

	Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews
		The result was the Dark Crystal, a flawed version of the original that empowers the tyrannical rule of the Skeksis.
		But The Dark Crystal was made without computers, in 1982, by an army of craftsmen, puppeteers, acrobats, dancers and artists who labored for some five years under the guidance of Jim Henson.
		The Dark Crystal is the late Henson's masterpiece.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue254/screen2.html (639 words)

	The Dark Crystal (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		1000 years ago the Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos began...
		Still, the Dark Crystal stands as an excellent tale of good versus evil.
		However, some adults might find the story simplistic, and it is in the same manner that Labyrinth is. However, like Labyrinth, Dark Crystal succeeds in taking you to another place and immersing you in another world.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0083791 (520 words)

	The Dark Crystal (1982): Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell, Barry Denne, Billie Whitelaw - PopMatters Film Review
		When the eight or nine bird-lizard hybrids in garish, raggy robes stand around the crystal in worship and order the deaths of Gelflings, they are desperate to hold onto their power.
		The Dark Crystal has not, to my knowledge, amassed quite the same cult as Henson's human/puppet hybrid, Labyrinth (1986); the latter is campier, which never hurts a cult following.
		But Labyrinth is merely engaging; The Dark Crystal is enveloping in its ambitious re-telling of an old story.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/d/dark-crystal.shtml (1116 words)

	The Dark Crystal sequel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		If you compare some of the work on Dark Crystal with that of movies of today it's still quite amazing to see what they achieved some twenty three years ago.
		Posted by: Rodney at May 14, 2005 06:57 PM I could barely sit through the original Dark Crystal, it just didn't appeal to me I guess, they don't really provide much backstory to the world you were watching and those bird things made me want to shoot myself.
		Posted by: josh1 at July 20, 2005 03:49 PM The Dark Crystal as well as Labyrinth were just great movies, in which the puppets cannot be paralleled by anything else.
	www.themovieblog.com /archives/2005/05/the_dark_crystal_sequel.html (1119 words)

	Fionaurora's Dark Crystal Page
		Did you know that the Dark Crystal was the only film where the cast was all puppets? Later, there have been some television show/specials that did not include a human character. The television show Dinosaurs did contain human characters in some episodes.
		The Dark Crystal won many awards and compliments on the special effects used in creating this movie, including the Avoriaz prize for best fantasy film.
		The World of the Dark Crystal by the creative designer Brian Froud. This book contains many paintings and sketches by Froud, as well as detailed information on the creatures.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/3108/darkcrystal.html (367 words)

	The Dark Crystal (1982)
		Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street were child's play compared to The Dark Crystal.
		Child's Play was child's play compared to The Dark Crystal, and yet I watched it again and again in some sort of weird pattern of attraction and revulsion.
		The Dark Crystal on the other hand is a measly 95 minutes, and has a lot less substance than I imagined.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/dark_crystal.htm (641 words)

	The Dark Crystal review
		The Dark Crystal is one of the best movies of its time.
		Two Gelfling survive, and it is up to them to try and "heal the crystal" and return the world of Thra to the paradise it once was.
		Kira and Jen will be the King and Queen of the Gelfling, which means the people doing the movie will have to come up with a way to find a bunch of other Gelfling since, as of the end of the Dark Crystal, there were only 2 on the whole planet, supposedly.
	www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/dark/dark.html (211 words)

	The Dark Crystal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		All I could think of was the all the hours of work that went into sculpting the breathtaking scenery.
		The most amazing thing happened as I was lighting my favorite Zippo - the Skeksis were standing around the crystal and it looked at one point like my flame was lighting them on the screen.
		By the time the main character (who I will refer to as Stick Boy) appears I was completely lost as to what the plot of this beautiful moving painting was.
	fei-hung.tripod.com /dark.html (347 words)

	The Dark Crystal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jen is an orphan, the last of a race exterminated by the evil Skekses, lizard-like creatures living in the Castle of the Dark Crystal.
		Raised by the Mystics in their peaceful valley, Jen's life is shattered when his Master, the wisest of the Mystics, dies.
		Before his death, he charges Jen with a quest -- find the shard that was split from the Dark Crystal nearly a thousand years ago.
	www.rambles.net /dark_crystal.html (462 words)

	Amazon.com: The Dark Crystal: DVD: Jean-Pierre Amiel,Robbie Barnett,Peter Burroughs,Malcolm Dixon,Mike Edmonds,Dave ...
		Jim Henson's fantasy epic The Dark Crystal doesn't take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but like Star Wars it takes the audience to a place that exists only in the imagination and, for an hour and a half, on the screen.
		The orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal (which gives the Skeksis their power) and restore the balance of the universe.
		I'm a huge fan of The Dark Crystal (it and Labyrinth are my favourite movies of all time ever) so I was of course thrilled when a special collector's edition was released.
	www.amazon.com /Dark-Crystal-Jean-Pierre-Amiel/dp/B00000JPH6 (1721 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dark Crystal [1982]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jim Henson's fantasy epic The Dark Crystal doesn't take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but like Star Wars it takes the audience to a place that exists only in the imagination and, for an hour and a half, on the screen.
		The orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal (which gives the Skeksis their power) and restore the balance of the universe.
		Henson and codirector Frank Oz have pushed puppetry into a new direction: traditional puppets, marionettes, giant bodysuits, and mechanical constructions are mixed seamlessly in a fantasy world of towering castles, simple huts, dank caves, a giant clockwork observatory, and a magnificent landscape that seem to have leaped off the pages of a storybook.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D0EG (633 words)

	Muppet Central News - Henson planning Dark Crystal sequel
		"The Power of the Dark Crystal" features Jen and Kira as king and queen fighting to save their kingdom when the crystal is once again split.
		The film, which is titled "The Power of the Dark Crystal", has been written by David Odell (The Dark Crystal, The Muppet Show) and Annette Duffy.
		The first film's original heroes Jen and Kira are now king and queen, and must fight to save their kingdom when the crystal is once again split.
	www.muppetcentral.com /news/2005/051305.shtml (497 words)

	The Jim Henson Company - Jim Henson Fantasy Film Collection (Labyrinth / The Dark Crystal / MirrorMask) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		These are simply the original releases in a slip case as opposed to being repackaged in a slimmer collection case.
		The Dark Crystal takes us to a fabulous world where good and evil will make their final stand when a shard from the Dark Crystal is returned and the Crystal is healed.
		My grown children adore it because it brings back happy memories of their childhood and my only grandchild is mesmerized by "The Dark Crystal", as are all of my neices and nephews.
	astore.amazon.com /thejimhensoncomp/detail/B000GFRI5E (387 words)

	The Dark Crystal Movie Rewind «
		A thousand years ago the Crystal cracked and two new races appeared, the wise Mystics and the evil Skeksis.
		Don't forget that The Dark Crystal is now available to order on Widescreen DVD using our special 80s search device...
		The Dark Crystal was filmed at Elstree Studios, near London, England.
	www.fast-rewind.com /darkcrystal.htm (1228 words)

	The Dark Crystal (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		1000 years ago the Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos began...
		Labyrinth wasn't as visually stunning as Dark Crystal had been.
		The first I gazed on this movie I was awed the next time I saw it I said "Dang".
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0083791 (540 words)

	The Dark Crystal / Labyrinth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Dark Crystal is the earlier collaboration and by far the more ambitious, taking place entirely in a fantasy world created from scratch, and featuring nothing but puppeted characters and special effects.
		For the Skeksis and Mystics are opposites, and the Skeksis, who rule the castle and take advantage of the Dark Crystal's power to extend their lifespan and rule their world, have no interest in seeing Jen fulfill his quest.
		Sarah, a teenager who prefers to live in a fantasy world called Labyrinth, a world with scripted lines she knows by heart, is sick and tired of being taken for granted by her family, especially where babysitting her baby brother Toby (played by Brian Froud's son, Toby Froud) is concerned.
	www.greenmanreview.com /henson.fantasies.htm (1599 words)

	Tartakovsky Directing Dark Crystal Sequel - ComingSoon.net
		Genndy Tartakovsky said, "The original 'Dark Crystal' was one of the most inspirational and imaginative pictures of its time, so it's a real honor for me to be able to bring the world of 'The Dark Crystal' to a whole new generation."
		The sequel is only one of several projects exploring the world of The Dark Crystal, a fan favorite that has remained consistently strong with worldwide home video and DVD sales.
		Power of the Dark Crystal is a production of The Jim Henson Company in association with Orphanage Animation Studios.
	www.comingsoon.net /news/movienews.php?id=12991 (431 words)

	RadioShack.com - Toys & Games: Video games: The Dark Crystal for PSP
		In another time, the Dark Crystal was shattered.
		The Mystics have only one chance: the Crystal must be healed before the convergence of the three suns or the Skeksis will reign forever.
		It is up to Jen, the last of his race, to fulfill the prophecy that a Gelfing will return the missing shard to the Crystal and end the Skeksis' evil empire.
	www.radioshack.com /product/index.jsp?productId=2215079 (270 words)

	FilmRoar
		Caught up in the moment I found myself literarily on the edge of my seat remembering I was watching a short movie about a bunch of kids spelling out words.
		Dark Crystal Sequel: Power of the Dark Crystal
		The sequel will place the Brian Froud designed characters in CG background and is set to start production summer of 2006.
	www.geekroar.com (780 words)

	Dark Crystal, The - Collector's Edition @ EzyDVD
		The Dark Crystal is a masterful live action fantasy starring some of Jim Henson's most imaginative creatures ever!
		Directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz and produced by Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back), The Dark Crystal brilliantly weaves a timeless myth of good and evil.
		In another time, The Dark Crystal - a source of Balance and Truth in the Universe - was shattered, dividing the world into two factions: the wicked Skeksis and the peaceful Mystics.
	www.ezydvd.com.au /item.zml/230942 (278 words)

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