Star Wars retold with pieces of other movies

Kyle Kallgren's Star Wars Minus Star Wars is an amazing remix of dozens of media snippets from other soundtracks, shows and movies. The result is an unambiguous patchwork that adds up to the originalso long as you've seen it, too.

Its impossible to overstate the impact of Star Wars. Its arrival in theaters on May 25th 1977 marked the end of one chapter in film history and the beginning of another. Its a hinge on which film history swings. Upon its release, critic Pauline Kael derided the film as an assemblage of spare partsit has no emotional grip an epic without a dream Twenty years after its release critic Roger Ebert remarked that the film colonized our imaginations, and it is hard to stand back and see it simply as a motion picture, because it has so completely become part of our memories.