Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision av Charles Elton

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<B>The “revelatory” (<I>The New Yorker</I>) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino—and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his career.</B><BR/><BR/> The director Michael Cimino (1939–2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie <I>The Deer Hunter</I>, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and <I>Heaven’s Gate</I>, 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, <I>Heaven’s Gate</I> 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.<BR/><BR/> Or so the conventional wisdom goes. Noted t