{"id":40388,"date":"2023-07-29T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T20:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40388"},"modified":"2023-07-18T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T15:22:11","slug":"a-disturbance-in-the-force-2023-fantasia-film-festival-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/29\/a-disturbance-in-the-force-2023-fantasia-film-festival-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"A Disturbance in the Force (2023) [Fantasia Film Festival 2023]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I think about it, it\u2019s pretty shocking that no one has made a movie about \u201cThe Star Wars Holiday Special<\/a>” yet. It\u2019s an untapped corner of the \u201cStar Wars\u201d fandom that has remained mainly a running joke and mythical hurdle a fan must endure as a rite of passage. Director Jeremy Coon and Steve Cozak team up to deliver what is one of the breeziest, interesting and most entertaining \u201cStar Wars\u201d documentaries of all time. Likely to be regard as a classic fandom documentary, \u201cA Disturbance in the Force\u201d chronicles the making of \u201cStar Wars\u201d and how the pop culture climate took a fairly straight faced science fiction adventure movie and transformed it in to a disco variety show.<\/p>\n

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The transformation is not as inexplicable as one would think as the movie does wisely connect the dots. \u201cA Disturbance in the Force\u201d manages to swiftly bring us to the shocking success of \u201cStar Wars\u201d in the box office, then introduces us to the realm of television in the 1970\u2019s and what was considered popular, and then perfectly justifies why\u2014at the time\u2014a \u201cStar Wars\u201d Holiday Special was a great idea. Reasonably the movie does explain that the 1979 \u201cHoliday Special\u201d really does take off from \u201cA New Hope,\u201d as audiences hadn\u2019t actually been familiar with the wider scope of Lucas\u2019s universe. Not to mention that newly born \u201cStar Wars\u201d fans were starving for more content.<\/p>\n

The TV special was intended as a way to give fans more of this world while, admittedly, squeezing more money out of the product. There are also looks back at Harvey Korman\u2019s odd cooking segment, the intent to cast Cher for a guest appearance, and the potential story line of Han Solo being in a romantic relationship with a Wookie. Although we never get a straight from the horse\u2019s mouth recollection, the pair of directors do a great job filling the gaps. There are clips from Conan O\u2019Brien, and \u201cThe Big Bang Theory,\u201d and vintage interviews with stars Bea Arthur and Harvey Korman. Furthermore there are interviews with a ton of surviving crew members that worked on the special including Bob Mackie, Steve Binder, and Bruce Vilanche, respectively.<\/p>\n

Of course there are also fan testimonials from folks like Seth Green, Weird Al, Donny Osmond, and Paul Scheer, respectively. \u201cA Disturbance in the Force\u201d is a fantastic documentary, one that celebrates the sheer awfulness of The \u201cStar Wars Holiday Special\u201d while also perfectly explaining why it not only made sense at the time, but also kind of helped increasing the popularity and appeal of the movie series in the long run. I emphatically recommend it for any self respecting \u201cStar Wars\u201d fanatic.<\/p>\n

This year the Fantasia International Film Festival runs in Montreal from July 20th<\/sup> to August 9th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I think about it, it\u2019s pretty shocking that no one has made a movie about \u201cThe Star Wars Holiday Special” yet. It\u2019s an untapped corner of the \u201cStar Wars\u201d fandom that has remained mainly a running joke and mythical hurdle a fan must endure as a rite of passage. Director Jeremy Coon and Steve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2497,12],"tags":[219,292,401,469,698,906,980],"class_list":["post-40388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-fantasia-fest","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-documentary","tag-george-lucas","tag-history","tag-music","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40390,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388\/revisions\/40390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}