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Final Cut Paperback - 1999

by Steven Bach

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With a new Foreword by the author, this modern classic is "one of the few indispensable books about Hollywood" ("Newsweek"). The movie "Heaven's Gate" did not merely fail, it sank a studio--United Artists. Combining wit, extraordinary anecdote, and historical perspective, "Final Cut" gives a rare, inside look at moviemaking. "A landmark book on movies . . . must reading".--"Kirkus Reviews".

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Heaven's Gate is probably the most discussed, least seen film in modern movie history. Its notoriety is so great that its title has become a generic term for disaster, for ego run rampant, for epic mismanagement, for wanton extravagance. It was also the film that brought down one of Hollywood's major studios--United Artists, the company founded in 1919 by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D. W. Griffith, and Charlie Chaplin. Steven Bach was senior vice president and head of worldwide production for United Artists at the time of the filming of Heaven's Gate, and apart from the director and producer, the only person to witness the film's evolution from beginning to end. Combining wit, extraordinary anecdotes, and historical perspective, he has produced a landmark book on Hollywood and its people, and in so doing, tells a story of human absurdity that would have made Chaplin proud.

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  • Title Final Cut
  • Author Steven Bach
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised Edition
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Newmarket Press, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-08-16
  • Features Index
  • ISBN 9781557043740 / 1557043744
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.97 x 1.18 in (22.86 x 15.16 x 3.00 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99034001
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.437

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  • Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 193

About the author

Steven Bach was the senior vice-president and head of worldwide production for United Artists at the time of the filming of "Heaven's Gate." He has been associated with such productions as "Sleuth," "The Parallax View," "The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three," and "The French Lieutenant's Woman." Apart from the director and the producer, Bach was the only person to witness the evolution of "Heaven's Gate" from beginning to end. He now teaches film at Columbia University.

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