June 21st, 2015075This past Friday, Roger Christian -- the Academy Award-winning set decorator on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and director of Black Angel -- participated in a Reddit AMA. He was gracious enough to answer a fair amount of questions in detail, and I've chosen a few of the highlights.(Questions have been...
June 2nd, 2015163Roger Christian, the Academy Award winning set decorator for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope has announced a fundraising campaign for a feature-length version of his film Black Angel - and he needs your help!Black Angel was a short film attached to screenings of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in England, Scotland, and...
May 12th, 2015170Black Angel is a short fantasy film by Roger Christian, the Academy Award-winning set decorator from Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope. The film was commissioned by George Lucas and was attached to screenings of The Empire Strikes Back in select theaters in 1980. Last year, we wrote about the origins of the film and how...
December 2nd, 2014370Ever since the teaser for Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuted last Friday, the new lightsaber design has been a source of some controversy over its functionality and practicality. The BBC went to the man responsible for creating the original lightsabers for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Oscar-winning set designer Roger...
Back in March, we posted a story about the short film that accompanied the release of The Empire Strikes Back in some markets around the world. The film was called Black Angel, and it was directed by the Oscar-winning set decorator for Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Roger Christian. The film, lost for many years, has now been...Star Wars News & Info
Back in March, we posted an article about a short film called Black Angel that was played before screenings of The Empire Strikes Back. The film had been lost for three decades, but it was found in 2012, and has been fully restored. Coffee With Kenobi was recently contacted by Roger Christian, the Oscar-winning set decorator for Star...Star Wars News & Info
Last week we posted an article about the short film, Black Angel, that was attached to the release of The Empire Strikes Back in some foreign markets. Now, the blog for Cinefex (the quarterly visual effects magazine) has an interview with Roger Christian, the director of Black Angel and - most notably - the Academy Award winning...
