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Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision (Hardcover)
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Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R484
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The first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided
filmmaker Michael Cimino-and a reevaluation of the infamous film
that destroyed his careerThe director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is
famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam
movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards
in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and Heaven's Gate, the
most notorious bomb of all time. Originally budgeted at $11
million, Cimino's sprawling western went off the rails in Montana.
The picture grew longer and longer, and the budget ballooned to
over $40 million. When it was finally released, Heaven's Gate
failed so completely with reviewers and at the box office that it
put legendary studio United Artists out of business and marked the
end of Hollywood's auteur era.Or so the conventional wisdom goes.
Charles Elton delves deeply into the making and aftermath of the
movie and presents a surprisingly different view to that of Steven
Bach, one of the executives responsible for Heaven's Gate, who
wrote a scathing book about the film and solidified the widely held
view that Cimino wounded the movie industry beyond repair. Elton's
Cimino is a richly detailed biography that offers a revisionist
history of a lightning rod filmmaker. Based on extensive interviews
with Cimino's peers and collaborators and enemies and friends, most
of whom have never spoken before, it unravels the enigmas and
falsehoods, many perpetrated by the director himself, which
surround his life, and sheds new light on his extraordinary career.
This is a story of the making of art, the business of Hollywood,
and the costs of ambition, both financial and personal.
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