A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away ...: my fifty years editing Hollywood hits: Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's day off, Mission: impossible, and more

✍ Scribed by Paul Hirsch

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press Incorporated
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 745 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: United States.
• ISBN: 1641605243

✦ Synopsis

Introduction -- My first hit: Carrie -- Ten years earlier -- My first feature film -- Back to trailers -- My next big break: Benny -- Phantom and its horrors -- Obsession -- Star Wars -- The Fury -- King of the Gypsies, and Home Movies -- The Empire Strikes Back -- Blow OUt -- The black is back -- Footloose in L.A. -- Protocol -- Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- The Secret of My Success -- Planes, Trains & Automobiles -- Steel Magnolias -- I become a studio bigwig -- Falling Down -- The trouble with Trouble -- Mission: Impossible -- Mighty Joe Young -- Mission to Mars -- Pluto Nash -- Lean times -- Ray -- A fallow stretch -- Back to the big time -- The elder statesman -- Postscript.;This book "provides a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most influential films of the last fifty years as seen through the eyes of Paul Hirsch, the Oscar-winning film editor ... Hirsch breaks down his career movie by movie, offering a riveting look at the decisions that went into creating some of cinema's most iconic scenes. He also provides behind-the-scenes insight into casting, directing, and scoring and intimate portraits of directors, producers, composers, and stars."--Dust jacket flap.

✦ Subjects

United States