Episode 366: The Dark Crystal (1982)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Jim Henson and Frank Oz's The Dark Crystal (1982) is a dark fantasy story of Jen, one of two remaining gelflings in the world of Mithra. He goes on a quest to reunite a shard with the titular Dark Crystal in order to restore balance to his world.

El Goro of the Talk Without Rhythm podcast and Kat Ellinger of Diabolique Magazine discuss all the various versions of the revolutionary film with Mike while guest Brian Jay Jones -- author of Jim Henson: The Biography -- talks about Henson's career from his early days of puppeteering to his experimental films and beyond.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:20.8	The dark crystal. The dark crystal.
0:23.6	It begins as a quest.
0:27.6	You must find the shard.
0:31.6	The crystal shard.
0:34.6	The crystal shard?
0:36.6	To save our world
0:39.3	guiltly.
0:42.3	A wonder-filled fantasy adventure.
0:58.8	Journey into a mystical realm of sights and sounds
1:04.0	And sounds
1:04.0	Oh Enter the world of the dark crystal.
1:25.1	What's it for?
1:29.2	Is that what you want to know?
1:31.5	You want to know what this is all about?
1:33.3	Is that it, Gelsman?
1:38.3	Now from directors Jim Henson and Frank Oz,
1:41.2	and Gary Kurtz, the producer of Star Wars,
1:45.0	comes a new dimension of fantasy and adventure. Travel to another world, another time in the age of wonder.
2:08.7	The dark crystal.
2:21.6	Welcome to the projection booth.
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