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[6] The book review site The Pequod rated the book a 9.5 (out of 10.0) and said, "By using a specific case study, Bach has produced one of the best insider accounts of what it is really like to make a movie — how the studio, director, producers, and actors all work together to steer a project from the time of screenwriting through its release ...
'Final Cut' ranks No. 18 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it treats the saga of Michael Cimino's 1980 Western as an emblem of the era it brought to a close.
Steven Bach wrote of Cimino's early magazine work: "It is here that one can see what are perhaps the first public manifestations of the Cimino visual sensibility, and they are impressive. He thoroughly restyled the Spartan's derivative Punch look, designing a number of its strikingly handsome covers himself. The Cimino-designed covers are bold ...
Michael Cimino is filling up his dance card now that Love, Victor has come to an end with its third and final season. The star of Hulu’s follow-up take to film Love, Simon has joined the fourth ...
Trumbull developed the sequence after production, and it was recreated for Saturn in Silent Running. [citation needed] The interiors were filmed aboard the decommissioned Korean War aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge, which was docked at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in Long Beach, California. Shortly after filming was completed, the carrier was ...
John F. Buchmelter III as a bar patron. Buchmelter was a steel worker whom Cimino wanted in order to lend the film a sense of authenticity. Somsak Sengvilai as the VC Referee. Casting local actors to play the stone-faced Referee during the famous Russian-Roulette scene proved troublesome, as many refused to authentically slap De Niro and Walken.
However, after meeting Cimino, Eastwood decided to give him the directing job instead, which was Cimino's big break and feature-film directorial debut. [12] Cimino later said that if it was not for Eastwood, he never would have had a career in film. [13] Cimino patterned Thunderbolt after one of his favorite '50s films, Captain Lightfoot. [14]
Cimino's lawyers used a precedent established by Fields in an earlier case: Fields aided Warren Beatty's win in a dispute over final cut with the producers of the movie Reds, a finding that stated a contract granting a director final cut was absolutely binding. The producers challenged the claim that Cimino's 120-minute version of the film was ...