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Article: `BLADE RUNNER,' FABULOUS FLOP.(L.A LIFE)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- September 15, 1996
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Byline: Bob Strauss Daily News Film Writer
Title: ``Future Noir: The Making of `Blade Runner' ''
Author: Paul M. Sammon
Data: 441 pages, paperback, HarperPrism; $14
Our rating: Four stars
Perhaps the most influential box-office flop of all time, Ridley Scott's ``Blade Runner'' was the result of incredible artistic vision, matched in intensity by the anxiety that went into realizing it.
On hand through much of the development, making of, arguing about and fretting over the film, sharp-eyed journalist Paul M. Sammon caught thousands of incidents, which he has woven into one of the most thorough books of its kind ever ...
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