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	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to the first released Star Wars movie, and the second film released in the original Trilogy.
		The Empire Strikes Back is the only Star Wars film in which the teaser trailer features conceptual artwork by Ralph McQuarrie.
		The Empire Strikes Back was released on DVD in September 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_V:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back (1965 words)

	The Empire Strikes Back
		Until I read Empire, by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, I would never have believed that a postmodernist paean to Italian anarcho-syndicalism could be presented by its publishers as a defense of "the idealism of the Founders and Abraham Lincoln," and of the universal validity of the US Constitution.
		As for its vision of a modern world "empire," this is not without interest as a portrait of certain aspects of "globalization," but the authors' attempts to define this picture as an "empire," and to distinguish "empire" both from "imperialism" and from contemporary American hegemony are strained, to say the least.
		It is difficult to resist the conclusion that this curious choice of the word "empire" as a name for these patterns of globalization reflects the new modishness of empire as a subject--as witnessed by the number of books now appearing on this theme.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20030707/lieven (1030 words)

	Filmtracks: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)
		When discussing themes in The Empire Strikes Back, it's hard not to become fixated on the "Imperial March," the theme devised by Williams to represent the Galactic Empire as a whole and Lord Vader on a personal level.
		Also gracing the score for The Empire Strikes Back is "Yoda's Theme," a benign and touching theme for wisdom and restraint, and the lovely love theme for "Han Solo and the Princess" that weaves in and out throughout the entire score.
		When you saw The Empire Strikes Back for the first time, you got the feeling that damn near everything was going wrong --as it should be-- and part of that feeling was the ambience of a relentless uphill struggle created by Williams' score.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/empire.html (3352 words)

	Empire Strikes Back - FRAUD INVESTIGATION - CIO Magazine July 1, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vice president of fraud investigation and detection for Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (an independent member of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield association) in New York City, Parisi used to patrol his beat in a cruiser with a gun.
		Over a nine-year period, he cheated a number of health insurers, including Empire, of more than $1.4 million by billing for bronchoscopies--an invasive respiratory procedure that's normally done only once or twice in a lifetime for those who need it--at the rate of as many as one per patient per week.
		Meanwhile, Empire executives, confident in their commitment, their talents and their tools, are singing like birds.
	www.cio.com /archive/070198_fraud.html (2925 words)

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		He stops at the back of the Millennium Falcon, where Han and Chewie are trying to repair the right lifter with even more haste than before.
		In the back- ground the giant legs of the walker pass by as Luke banks under the monstrous machine.
		Darth Vader, his back turned, is silhouetted in the gloom on the far side of the chamber.
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	Ziggy's Video Realm: Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thus, it is all the more amazing that not only was George Lucas able to in fact create a successful follow up to Star Wars with The Empire Strikes Back, but also that to such a large number of fans, it is their favorite of the series.
		Fandom aside, on a technical level, the special effects of The Empire Strikes Back continue to represent the cutting edge of the era, blowing away all that came before or concurrent to this film, even surpassing that great leap forward represented by the technology that Lucas’ ILM invented to create the original Star Wars.
		The Empire Strikes Back is a film nearly without flaw, and what flaws there may be are so minor that their existence is mere trivia.
	www.reelcriticism.com /ziggyrealm/reviews/empirestrikesback.html (1236 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
		The Empire Strikes Back is, technically speaking, even better than the original, with more action and a lot more character building scenes (which are also extremely funny).
		The latter addition is breathtaking; the former is a curiosity, but it's hard to judge whether the scene is made more or less effective by a better done monster that's less elusive and mysterious.
		Nevertheless, Empire is as scintillating as it ever was, likely more so, and it's value just as raw entertainment, let alone an example of expert filmmaking, is irreplaceable.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/the.empire.strikes.back.1980.shtml (328 words)

	SCI-FI MOVIE PAGE PICK: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
		Some of the effects may have been cutting edge back then, but doesn't seem too good today - but the film (made with an enormous budget) to my mind has the best effects of the entire series.
		When it came to sprucing up the films for the Special Editions, The Empire Strikes Back - Special Edition was the one that had the least "make-overs".
		Despite being thought of as the "darkest" film in the series, there is humour in Empire, but it is never obtrusive at the expense of the rest of the film.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /june99pik.html (1074 words)

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		THE "EMPIRE" STRIKES BACK: A POSTTRANSSEXUAL MANIFESTO Sandy Stone Department of Radio, Television and Film, the University of Texas at Austin Copyright (c) 1987-2004 by Sandy Stone.
		Rather, Butler introduces the concept of cultural intelligibility, and suggests that the contextualized and resignified "masculinity" of the butch, seen against a culturally intelligible "female" body, invokes a dissonance that both generates a sexual tension and constitutes the object of desire.
		Whether the original Empire paper had the privilege of being a fortunately timed bellwether or whether it successfully evoked the build-it-and-they-will-come principle is unknown, but the results are no less gratifying for lack of that knowledge.
	www.actlab.utexas.edu /%7Esandy/empire-strikes-back (7946 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: Star Wars - Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back (Special Edition) (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ironically, "The Empire Strikes Back" was so good that it made it difficult for "The Return of the Jedi" to be better, especially since the final film was going to be more upbeat (and that was before all those cute Ewoks showed up).
		Unfortunately, the Empire, with the help of a probe droid, has discovered their base, and soon will be landing troops on the planet.
		Han, back from rescuing Luke, evacuates her on the Mellinnium Falcon, but, due to damage to the hyperdrive, they cannot jump to light speed.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6304539266?v=glance (2671 words)

	The FreshSite: Film: Reviews: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
		The Empire Strikes Back er en sjelden type oppfølger da George Lucas skrev denne historien samtidig som, og som en helhetlig fortsettelse til den første.
		Med The Empire Strikes Back gir Lucas fra seg regissørstolen til Irvin Kershner (The Flim Flam Man), og lar også selv være å skrive manuset.
		The Empire Strikes Back tar seg bedre tid til detaljer, uvitende om at den av og til avslører sin mangel på tematisk substans med sitt lave tempo.
	www.arnadal.no /film/Movies/empiresb.htm (381 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: The Empire Strikes Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is because of the emotions stirred in ``Empire'' that the entire series takes on a mythic quality that resonates back to the first and ahead to the third.
		There is a generosity in the production design of ``The Empire Strikes Back.'' There are not only the amazing sights there before us, but plenty more in the corners of the screen, or everywhere the camera turns.
		Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca and C-3PO evade Empire capture by hiding their ship in plain sight and then flee to the Cloud City, ruled by Lando (Billy Dee Williams), an old pal of Han's and (we learn) the original owner of the Millennium Falcon, before an unlucky card game.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/19970221/REVIEWS/702210302/1023 (1029 words)

	The Empire Strikes Back: Special Edition - John Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is one of Williams' most striking and old-fashioned romantic themes and suggest the Hollywood of fifty years previously.
		For the final act on Cloud City, the full dramatic extent of the story is revealed, culminating with the surging music for Han's carbon freezing, the frenzied light sabre duel between Luke and Vader and the final excitement as some of our heroes escape from Cloud City.
		Unlike the brassy ceremony of The Throne Room sequence in A New Hope, the uncertainty at the end of Empire is reflected by Williams' sobering music, although the expertly arranged end title medley doesn't disappoint, ending as it does with the soaring romance of Han and Leia's theme.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/empire.htm (978 words)

	The Empire Strikes Back
		At the time of writing, a critical question hanging over the American empire in the Middle East is whether, for the sake of that empire, Bush will be able to confront an Israeli nationalism that members of his own Administration themselves partly share, and that they have also inflamed and exploited for domestic political ends.
		The German and Japanese empires of the twentieth century failed not only because they started late and from an inadequate power base but because they conducted their foreign policies with an incredible degree of savage stupidity.
		What Clinton--like Eisenhower--also realized is that the expansion of raw, direct American power in the world depends on and is also limited by the need to maintain the health of the US economy, and through this the economic well-being and hence the long-term political support of the majority of the American people.
	www.thenation.com /docprint.mhtml?i=20030707&s=lieven (3321 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: 'The Empire Strikes Back'
		To call "The Empire Strikes Back" a good junk movie is no insult: There is enough bad junk around.
		It has no original vision of the future, which is depicted as a pastiche of other junk-culture formulae, such as the western, the costume epic and the Would War II movie.
		At the beginning and end of the new film, the bad Empire and the good Rebellion are still at odds.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/empirestrikesbackmartin.htm (721 words)

	Review: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It's the latter quality that has made The Empire Strikes Back the least favorite among young Star Wars fans -- excepting Yoda, there's nothing cute to be found, and the film definitely doesn't leave viewers with a warm, fuzzy feeling.
		The defining moment of The Empire Strikes Back occurs in the final fifteen minutes, and, during screenings in 1980 (before the nature of the secret became public knowledge), one particular scene provoked collective gasps.
		Neither the first nor the third chapters (or, properly, the "fourth" and "sixth") of the Star Wars saga were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.
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		Artoo, riding on the back of the fighter, turns his head back and forth with some anxiety.
		The remaining pieces of his body are randomly bundled to the Wookiee's back so that his legs and other arm stick out at odd angles from the pack.
		Luke backs off along the narrow end of the gantry as Vader comes at him, slashing at the young Jedi with his sword.
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	Mutant Reviewers from Hell do "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"
		The Empire indeed strikes back and feasts on the Rebel's entrails (who are in turn camping out in other beasts' entrails)
		Plus, many parts of ESB are so intensely cool — the ground battle, the asteroid chase, the bounty hunters — that seeing it today gives me serious thrillbumps (those are goosebumps, just the good kind).
		Like The Two Towers, The Empire Strikes Back is a section in a single story, not its own independent let’s-make-more-money type of affair.
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	Star Wars movie series reviews
		After freeing Anakin, the Jedi go back to Coruscant to warn the Jedi council of Darth Maul (Ray Park/Peter Serafinowicz), an apprentice of the Sith Lord trained in the ways of the Jedi.
		Leia is the leader of the Rebel Alliance fighting against the Empire.
		The Evil Empire has built a new killing machine, much more powerful than the Death Star (even though it has the same weak points as far as blowing it up is concerned).
	www.ram.org /ramblings/movies/star_wars.html (3043 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Empire Strikes Back at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the original release of The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas was held back a bit on showing some things because of the technology of the times.
		Apparently, George Lucas though the difference in his facial features between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back were significant enough to need explanation.
		Only now I can look back and realize what a cop-out and disappointment it would have been on Lucas' part to not have Vader really be Luke's father.
	www.epinions.com /content_64633540228 (950 words)

	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back - Movie Review (The Empire Strikes Back (short title), Star Wars V: The ...
		In the all-time list of sequels that are better than their predecessors, 'The Empire Strikes Back' would have to be pretty darn close to the summit.
		Summary: The most exciting, entertaining, challenging and altogether satisfying of all the 'Star Wars' movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back' is an example of big-budget cinema at its very best.
		Arguably the best of the George Lucas trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back is one of the best sci-fi adventure movies ever produced.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/923 (800 words)

	village voice > news > The Empire Strikes Back by Rachel Neumann
		Face what you think is the cause of your suffering and say: I know you must have suffered a lot in order to have done such a thing to us.
		Me, I pledge my allegiance/to the love of all of humanity/and to the aspirations we all share/one species/one blood/one love/one destiny/one love/one destiny/under all manifestations of god/indivisible/with liberty and/medicine and shelter and/food and self-determination and freedom of religion and freedom of expression and freedom of movement and love and justice/for all.
		They have struck us, and in their strike announced: We'd rather die—and take you with us—than go on living in the world you have forced us to occupy.
	villagevoice.com /issues/0140/neumann.php (1875 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: The Empire Strikes Back: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Special Edition) [SOUNDTRACK] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980.) The soundtrack to the film, composed by John Williams.
		Each of the soundtracks from the classic trilogy (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi) is now a dual-disc set, which features every piece of music from the entire film it represents, from start to finish.
		In the EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, John Williams dove through the surface of the shallower pre-existing Star Wars score and explored a deeper and more substancial universe.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003G8Z?v=glance (2138 words)

	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I belong to the group of people who think 'The Empire Strikes Back' is even better than 'Star Wars'.
		Where 'Star Wars' has great special effects 'The Empire Strikes Back' feels as a non-stop chain of the most amazing special effects.
		We learn in 'The Empire Strikes Back' things we already understand if you have seen the new movies, but still we are amazed, almost shocked by things.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0080684 (889 words)

	THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MOVIE HELP WEB REVIEW
		To summarize, this is the story of an evil galactic Empire and those brave enough to fight against it...
		The rebels are led by Luke Skywalker, at the beginning an average kid on a distant desert planet, but one who grows into a master Jedi, a warrior of awesome strength of will and of mastery of the Force.
		I think 'Empire' is a better movie than the first, as not only does it have plenty of action, it also develops the characters and allows them to have depth and meaning.
	www.moviehelpweb.com /titles/e/empire.htm (354 words)

	Star Wars:Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back
		"Empire" is widely considered the best movie in the Star Wars saga, probably because of its decidedly darker tone from the original.
		Han and Leia are dogged through an astriod field by Vader's Star Destroyer, Luke's X-Wing is stuck on the swamp planet Dagobah (where he recieves guidance from the wise yet diminuitive Yoda), and C-3PO is blasted into severel different bits.
		Oh, yeah, Han is captured by the bounty hunter Boba Fett, Luke's hand is loped off by Vader, Leia is handed to the Empire over by a traitorus "friend", and we are all given a shocking revelation about Darth Vader's true identity.
	www.movie-vault.com /reviews/HvQtykxFUwdeOwRe (393 words)

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