A killer life

Christine Vachon, Austin Bunn

The starkly disparate film worlds of New York and Hollywood collide in this eye-opening memoir by the founder of Killer Films. "Untitled" chronicles Vachon's two decades in the filmmaking trenches, providing an unprecedented look at the birth, rise, and enduring success of the independent film movement. Here is an account of a filmmaker who looks straight into the eye of the Hollywood blockbuster storm and dares not to blink. In A Killer Life, Christine Vachon follows up her independent producing handbook, Shooting to Kill, with a behind-the-scenes memoir of the battle between creativity and commerce -- and a renegade's rise to being one of the most powerful female producers in independent film today. A Killer Life traces the early years Vachon spent producing such controversial and critically acclaimed movies as Poison, Happiness, and Kids, films that paved the way for Academy...

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