Named in the title of 3 peer-reviewed works
Examples
La Force est avec George! Star Wars : Episode II — Attack of the Clones Star Wars : Episode II — Attack of the Clones — Ciné-Bulles : Le cinéma d’auteur avant tout, 2002
Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones (Motion picture) — Sight & sound/Sight and sound, 2002
La Force est avec George! / Star Wars : Episode II — Attack of the Clones — Ciné-Bulles : Le cinéma d’auteur avant tout, 2002
Sources: Wikidata · OpenAlex · Library of Congress. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones arrived in 2002 as George Lucas's return to directing after a seventeen year absence from the chair, released by 20th Century Fox under Lucasfilm. As the second entry in the prequel trilogy, it carried the weight of expanding the saga's mythology, tracking the Republic's slide toward empire and deepening the tragedy that would define Anakin Skywalker. It remains a touchstone for collectors tracing the franchise's digital era transition and its ambitious, divisive vision of the galaxy's fall.
This cell centers on Anakin and Padme, the doomed pairing whose bond drives much of the film's emotional architecture and sets the stage for events across the saga. Their names together signal the romantic thread woven through the prequels, a relationship collectors prize for its narrative consequence rather than simple screen time. A 35mm cell bearing both figures marks a moment where two central threads of the story intersect, offering a tangible fragment of the reel where their shared arc was first given physical form on film.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
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