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The Unkindest Cut by Joe Queenan (1996, Hardcover) 
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The Unkindest Cut by Joe Queenan (1996, Hardcover)

Author: Joe Queenan
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Publication Date: 1996-02-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0786860901
ISBN-13: 9780786860906
Product ID: EPID418616
Description: To prove the frequent complaint that "I could make a better movie than that any day of the week," film critic Joe Queenan followed in the footsteps of filmmaker mavericks and tried to master the art of writing, directing, composing, cast...
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Synopsis
To prove the frequent complaint that "I could make a better movie than that any day of the week," film critic Joe Queenan followed in the footsteps of filmmaker mavericks and tried to master the art of writing, directing, composing, casting, and marketing for his own $7000 movie, which, true to the maverick mold, he subsidized by putting it all on his credit card.

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Publication Date:1996-02-01

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Length:310 pages
Height:10.0 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:20.8 oz

Publisher's Note
In February 1993, mean-spirited movie critic Joe Queenan read a newspaper article that would change the course of his life. The article described a movie called El Mariachi which supposedly had been made for a paltry $7,000. Armed with the information that someone could make a movie for a paltry $7,000, Queenan now set out to prove that anyone could make a movie for a paltry $7,000. Two years later, on a bitterly cold February evening, Queenan's film, Twelve Steps to Death, would win first prize at the First Tarrytown International Film Festival, nabbing the coveted Golden Headless Horseman Award. But before Queenan would have his night of triumph, there would be many financial, physical, and emotional disasters. A knife stabbing on the set of the film. Massive cost overruns. Sabotaged equipment. The tearful resignation of his seven-year-old son from the cast. A ruined marriage. And the consternation of his oldest, wisest, and closest friends, who questioned the wisdom of making a $7,000 film about a sociopathic Los Angeles cop whose wife and children had been killed two years earlier by a schizoid anorexic recovering alcoholic with Attention Deficit Disorder who was fleeing an abusive, chocaholic husband who used to beat her up whenever he had one too many of the nougat caramels. Yet in the end, Queenan did what he set out to do, producing a film that is without question "the most expensive $7,000 film in history".

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"... [Queenan] has a feel for picture-making's essential comic value. A director's job as he sees it is to insure minimal gesticulation, zero accents and NO ACTING, 'not even in the Lou Diamond Phillipian sense of the word.'.... Four-fifths of a fun ride is more than most author's provide, and I'm looking forward to a sequel.... Mr. Queenan has clearly caught the film-making flu."
New York Times Book Review - Julia Phillips (01/28/1996)

"...Queenan's book is worth a look for its flashes of humor and his often entertaining personal bravura. My favorite part was in the final chapter where he quotes at length from a glowing review of his own movie that he was able to write for Movieline under a pseudonym. May we all be so lucky."
Washington Post Book World - Roger L. Simon (02/11/1996)

"'The Unkindest Cut' is full of extraneous details but the book is hard to resist, if only because the critic has put his money where his mouth is."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Chris Goodrich (04/21/1996)

"...a wry, even occasionally useful, real-life satire on low-low-budget moviemaking.... Along with 'Final Cut' and 'The Devil's Candy,' one of cinema's great cautionary tales."
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