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Description: "Discontinued!.. Last chance to own a collector's masterpiece." GALLERY PHOTOS ARE THE ACTUAL ITEMWITH ONE STOCK MAIN IMAGE After George Lucas finished work on Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, he wanted to look back on the Star Wars saga with an entirely new point of view: isolating stills, or frames, from each of the six Star Wars films, focusing on them intensely as works of photography and design, and reproducing them in a book. For two years Lucas went through more than 150,000 frames per film, editing more than 1 million frames down to the 1,416 images that now comprise Star Wars: Frames, a testament to the hard work, craftsmanship, and dedication evident in every frame of every film. Star Wars: Frames brings together Lucas’s personal shot-by-shot selections into a lavishly designed two-volume hardcover set—one volume for the Original Trilogy and one volume for the Prequel Trilogy. For collectors and fans, Star Wars: Frames is the ultimate look on this grand project devoted to a cinematic phenomenon—and the ultimate Star Wars collector’s tome. Amazing! After the completion of the Star Wars prequels, George Lucas sat down and went frame by frame through all six Star Wars movies, examining literally hundreds of thousands of images and selecting about 250 screen grabs from each film, frames that he believed showed particular artistry, each in its own right. The result was 2011’s limited edition of 1,138 boxed sets called Star Wars: Frames, sold for $3,000, and now only rarely available with one set being sold at Amazon.com for a whopping $11,500. Thanks to Abrams Books, Star Wars: Frames is being re-released this month in a complete edition, collecting 1,472 stills from all six films in the Star Wars saga. It is without a doubt the definitive visual work on Star Wars, in a rare league of deluxe book editions along with long out-of-print Dressing a Galaxy: The Costume of Star Wars and Sculpting a Galaxy: Inside the Star Wars Model Shop as the best Star Wars books ever released. This unabridged version of Star Wars: Frames includes two hardcover books, each covering one of the two movie trilogies in 368 pages, housed in a hefty Death Star-themed silver box. The only difference between the $3,000 version and this version is the original was issued in a six-book set (one book for each film instead of one for each trilogy), with each image taking up a full page, packaged in a wooden crate instead of cardboard. The content is the same. The book lives up to its promise, in surprising ways. Moving through the classic original trilogy first, we learn from the foreword by J.W. Rinzler that this is not just George Lucas’s view of the best images of his films, but it also includes visuals that help keep the beat of the story. So immediately you see key images that showed up in decades of marketing materials, on notebooks, stickers, trading cards, cardboard puzzles, and anything you can imagine. But you also see in-between frames that allow you to examine background detail your eye may never have caught before. "On Friday, September 9, 2005, George Lucas began frames selection with Mike Blanchard and J. W. Rinzler in an editorial suite at Skywalker Ranch. Sessions generally took place two to three times a month, until Friday, July 11, 2008. More than two years were then required to solve all of the production challenges presented by the project's exacting requirements. Star Wars: Frames is the result of several interrelated disciplines, as practiced by experts in their fields, all working in the service of one of the masterpieces of cinema." The biggest surprise is that this should be a book for discussion among fans. Why did he select this shot of the Jawas in the Tatooine gorge instead of the memorable image of the Jawas carrying R2-D2? Where is that classic view of Han Solo and Chewbacca firing off the ramp of the Millennium Falcon? Lacking any text other than the forewords by The Star Wars comic book and “Making of” series writer Rinzler and director Guillermo del Toro and books dedications, each spread features four large widescreen “letterbox” images on impressive, high quality and highly detailed 15.7 inch x 14.1 inch pages in 20 lbs. of books. The rationale for the selection of each frame then is left to the imagination of the reader. What also comes across is the scene by scene design artistry of one movie over the other. Maybe not surprisingly the most artistic compositions of the movies appears to be Episode IV: A New Hope, yet equally eye-popping is the imagery of Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Yes, devoid of clunky dialogue and stilted acting, Attack of the Clones is full of beautifully designed visuals, including shots inspired by Maxfield Parrish. You also notice that the movies heaviest in action–Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith–have far less iconic stills. The Empire Strikes Back, arguably the best of all the films, in particular is in need of its rousing John Williams soundtrack, although it clearly has its defining moments, including the contemplative Yoda on Dagobah, the AT-ATs and tauntauns on Hoth, and the capture at Cloud City. Even The Phantom Menace has brilliant sweeping cityscapes, although this is eclipsed by many images of the endless pod race scene. Yet, maybe more than before, it becomes clearer what Lucas was attempting to do with the prequels. What is missed or overlooked in the quick scenes and edits of the films in the special effects realm can be seen and studied now in Star Wars: Frames. That the futuristic spacescapes of Attack of the Clones look so much like Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, and that A New Hope looks so much like a David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai, Dr. Zhivago) production, add to the elements that stack in favor of this boxed set. Is Star Wars: Frames a must-have for Star Wars fans? No question. For a study in design and movie making this set will be one you pull from the shelf again and again. 5.0 out of 5 stars Big. Beautiful. Compelling.This two-volume set is a well organized visual-only chronicle of the original six Star Wars movies. It you are a fan of the movies, you just gotta get this set on principle if nothing else. ;) But seriously, while I initially had reservations, upon exploring the books first hand, I found a bit of subtle creative "genius," if you will, in showcasing the material in this manner. Huge scenes and depictions. Grand landscapes. intimate moments. Enormous battles. Sure... nostalgia sappiness, but actually a pretty compelling way to explore the movies "again." And with George and company's personal touch no less. Beautiful set worth exploring. 5.0 out of 5 stars True high-end photography quality booksThe book is beautiful and the photography is top notch. I love the sheen and thickness of the paper, but it does make each book quite heavy to hold. So the entirety of the package is even more heavy. But the quality is so spectacular it was a notably fantastic gift. I would recommend it for any hardcore Star Wars fan or even if you enjoy a beautiful coffee table photography book, this is wonderful.

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