Excalibur Test: Inside Digital Productions – interview with sci-fi author Greg Bear on Digital Productions, the company responsible for the CGI in The Last Starfighter Another highlight is the interview with composer Craig Safan, who had to compose the score with little visual aid to go off of for the CGI-dominated sequences. His inspiration from John Williams and experience with electronic instruments helped to make his memorable and triumphant score.

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The Last Starfighter: Other Editions

in the film version (I'm sure there are some fans out there who feel strongly that Preston should have replaced Mastroianni in the "final five".) The Last Starfighter follows the intergalactic adventures of high-schooler Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), who spends his days trying to beat the Starfighter video game that sits in front of his local convenience store. Little does he know, the game is just a test. And when he eventually beats the game, much to the joy of all the locals, he’s recruited by the game’s inventor, an alien named Centauri (Robert Preston), to fight in the real-life battle between the Rylan Star League and the Ko-Dan Empire. The game is just a recruiting tool, and now Alex and his reptilian pilot partner named Grig (Dan O’Herlihy) must defeat the evil Xur (Norman Snow), the leader of the Ko-Dan Empire. Collector’s booklet featuring writing by Amanda Reyes and sci-fi author Greg Bear’s Omni magazine article on Digital Productions, the company responsible for the CGI in The Last Starfighter Arrow Video’s new 4K restoration of “The Last Starfighter” will have you feeling ready to take on the Kodan Armada.

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Excalibur Test: Inside Digital Productions – interview with sci-fi author Greg Bear on Digital Productions, the company responsible for the CGI in The Last Starfighter contains the following information on the restoration: The Last Starfighter has been exclusively restored by Arrow Films and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.39:1 [ sic] with Damage has been cleaned up in a far more thorough manner, and I don’t recall many blemishes ever popping up (the old disc still had a lot), and the digital encode is solid: the film is quite grainy, more than I was expecting, but it looks sharp and natural and the encode never struggles with it. Where things can falter a wee bit is in some of the film’s computer effects. The original 35mm camera negative was scanned in 4K resolution at EFILM. The film was graded and restored at R3Store Studios in London. Audio

This 4K Ultra HD release of The Last Starfighter comes with the same three audio mixes as Arrow’s 2020 Blu-ray release and they sound just as good. One is a stereo mix in DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, one DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix, and a DTS-HD Master Audio 4.1 mix originally created for the film’s 70mm release and never included on any home video format before the 2020 Blu-ray release from Arrow.Excalibur Test: Inside Digital Productions - Interview with sci-fi author Greg Bear on Digital Productions (HD 7:46) version. Flesh tones can occasionally look slightly pink and flushed, though never really unnatural. A number of scenes later in the film have an

Gentleman. Two years later, there was quite a bit of scuttlebutt that Preston would finally not just be nominated for, but might The Last Starfighter is remembered fondly (by those who still remember it anyway) by those who loved it in the 1980s and very much stirs up a sense of nostalgia for the arcade and videogame culture of the era. Mostly, it is remembered for being one of the first films to incorporate 3D CGI visual effects. There are many shots of spaceships and so on done digitally that do stand out a lot more than they would today, but in the context of a 1984 sci-fi film, they look fantastic and actually add even more charm to the film, despite the way look a bit too sanitized and shiny in comparison to the rest of the film.review of that version. Marty's review is also a good resource for screenshot comparisons and lining up the array of supplements between the