- Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival in 1990.
- He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France and earned dual degrees in English and French from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois in 1961.
- He earned a doctorate in film studies at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles.
- He taught film at Columbia University in New York City and film and literature at Bennington College in Vermont.
- He is best known for writing ""Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven's Gate" [first published in 1985], his famous non-fiction book about the making of Heaven's Gate (1980). Bach was a senior executive at United Artists whilst the film was being made. The film's director, Michael Cimino dismissed the book as "fiction".
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