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
Released by 20th Century Fox in 2002, Attack of the Clones marked George Lucas's return to directing after a seventeen-year absence, continuing the prequel trilogy's account of the Republic's slide into empire. Coming amid heavy fan scrutiny and blockbuster expectations, it expanded the saga's mythology while introducing the central romance that would shape the series' tragic arc. The film's technical ambitions, including extensive digital effects and location work, marked a turning point in franchise filmmaking.
This cell centers on Padmé Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, the pairing at the emotional core of the saga's turn toward darkness. Their names together signal the courtship that unfolds across the film, a relationship prized by collectors for its narrative weight and its place in the larger arc leading toward Darth Vader. A 35mm cell of this pairing preserves a physical fragment of that story, a single frame excised from the reel itself, offered here as an artifact from the print rather than a still or reproduction.
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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