Lionel Mandrake
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http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/12/20-12-pl_blackangel/
Always good news when a lost film is recovered.
Wired said:The short was never released on VHS or DVD, and Christian himself was unable to track down the original negative. The director believed it was lost—until he got a call from an archivist at Universal Studios last December. “He said, ‘We found this tin of film labeled Black Angel, and it seems to point to you,’” Christian recalls. “I wrote back, ‘You just made my Christmas for the last 20 years.’ ”
Christian is still debating how to share Black Angel with fans. “Probably the best way is a downloadable version,” he says. “I think it would be great to see it in a cinema again on a program with Empire Strikes Back. That’s how it was intended to be seen.” I suppose we can sit through Empire one more time, if we must.
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Always good news when a lost film is recovered.
And yeah, it's the directorial debut of the man who brought us Battlefield Earth.