Full name: Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

Author: Paul M. Sammon Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Art Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780061053146 0061053147

The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic. Similar books: Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes by John Pierson Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti The greatest sci-fi movies never made by David Hughes The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex by Mark Kermode The American Cinema: Directors And Directions 1929-1968 by Andrew Sarris Cult Movies by Danny Peary Sleazoid Express by Bill Landis The Art of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto Godard on Godard by Jean-Luc Godard Awake in the Dark by Roger Ebert Make Your Own Damn Movie! by Lloyd Kaufman Mondo Macabro by Peter Tombs How to Read a Film by James Monaco Making Movies by Sidney Lumet Natasha's Dance by Orlando Figes Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail by Lucy Johnston The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes Medieval Calligraphy by Marc Drogin The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Jacques Bosser