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The first biography of the acclaimed and derided filmmaker Michael
Cimino—and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his
career—now in paperback!The director Michael Cimino (1939–2016)
is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring
Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the
Academy Awards in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and
Heaven’s Gate, the most notorious bomb of all time. Originally
budgeted at $11 million, Cimino’s sprawling western went off the
rails in Montana. The picture grew longer and longer, and the
budget ballooned to over $40 million. When it was finally released,
Heaven’s Gate failed so completely with reviewers and at the box
office that it put legendary studio United Artists out of business
and marked the end of Hollywood’s auteur era.Or so the
conventional wisdom goes. Charles Elton delves deeply into the
making and aftermath of the movie and presents a surprisingly
different view to that of Steven Bach, one of the executives
responsible for Heaven’s Gate, who wrote a scathing book about
the film and solidified the widely held view that Cimino wounded
the movie industry beyond repair. Elton’s Cimino is a richly
detailed biography that offers a revisionist history of a lightning
rod filmmaker. Based on extensive interviews with Cimino’s peers
and collaborators and enemies and friends, most of whom have never
spoken before, it unravels the enigmas and falsehoods, many
perpetrated by the director himself, which surround his life, and
sheds new light on his extraordinary career. This is a story of the
making of art, the business of Hollywood, and the costs of
ambition, both financial and personal.
The first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided
filmmaker Michael Cimino-and a reevaluation of the infamous film
that destroyed his careerThe director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is
famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam
movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards
in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and Heaven's Gate, the
most notorious bomb of all time. Originally budgeted at $11
million, Cimino's sprawling western went off the rails in Montana.
The picture grew longer and longer, and the budget ballooned to
over $40 million. When it was finally released, Heaven's Gate
failed so completely with reviewers and at the box office that it
put legendary studio United Artists out of business and marked the
end of Hollywood's auteur era.Or so the conventional wisdom goes.
Charles Elton delves deeply into the making and aftermath of the
movie and presents a surprisingly different view to that of Steven
Bach, one of the executives responsible for Heaven's Gate, who
wrote a scathing book about the film and solidified the widely held
view that Cimino wounded the movie industry beyond repair. Elton's
Cimino is a richly detailed biography that offers a revisionist
history of a lightning rod filmmaker. Based on extensive interviews
with Cimino's peers and collaborators and enemies and friends, most
of whom have never spoken before, it unravels the enigmas and
falsehoods, many perpetrated by the director himself, which
surround his life, and sheds new light on his extraordinary career.
This is a story of the making of art, the business of Hollywood,
and the costs of ambition, both financial and personal.
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The Songs (Paperback)
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From the bestselling author of Mr Toppit, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, comes a riotous, darkly comic story of siblings searching for the truth about their musician father - for fans of The Rosie Project, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Humans
Iz Herzl, renowned political activist and protest singer, has always refused to dwell on the past. Now eighty, he sits in his house in Muswell Hill, while his lovers - some past, some present - dance attendance upon him. Downstairs, Iz's children - teenage maths wunderkind Rose, and her dying brother Huddie - spend their days picking through the myths and secrecy that have always swirled around their unknowable father.
But Iz can't keep the past at bay forever. Into their lives comes Joseph: his first child, whom Rose and Huddie have never met. And his arrival will change things in ways that Rose and Huddie could never have anticipated.
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Mr Toppit (Paperback)
Charles Elton
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The bestselling, Richard and Judy Book Club Pick, Mr Toppit is a darkly comic, enthralling story of a family shaped by their father's literary legacy, exploring fame, fandom and long-buried secrets When Arthur Hayman, author of The Hayseed Chronicles, dies, a bizarre chain of events conspires to make his series of children's novels world-famous. But buried deep inside the books lie secrets that begin to shake Arthur's family - his son, Luke, reluctantly immortalized as the young hero; his daughter, Rachel, for whom the books are a hole through which her life has fallen; and his enigmatic wife, Martha, who knows that secrets are best kept well-hidden.
And at the heart of The Hayseed Chronicles is the mysterious Mr Toppit, who will let none of the Haymans out of his grasp...
Title: The Brothers, a monody; and other poems.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
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British Library Elton, Charles; 1820. 12 . 994.e.15.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
Title: Origins of English History ... Second edition
revised.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL
HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library
digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material
that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include
health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology,
culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and
social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Elton, Charles; 1890.
xxiii, 450 p.; 8 . 9506.f.17.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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