Shooting to Kill by Christine Vachon
Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the set of Vachon’s best-known films, Shooting to Kill offers all the satisfaction of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmakers, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs and survivors. Hailed by the New York Times as the “godmother to the politically committed film” and by Interview as a true “auteur producer,” Christine Vachon has made her name with such bold, controversial, and commercially successful films as “Poison,” “Swoon,” Kids,” “Safe,” “I Shot Andy Warhol,” and “Velvet Goldmine.”Over the last decade, she has become a driving force behind the most daring and strikingly original independent filmmakers-from Todd Haynes to Tom Kalin and Mary Harron and helped put them on the map.
Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the set of Vachon’s best-known films, Shooting to Kill offers all the satisfaction of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmakers, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs and survivors.
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