Cimino: the Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision
by Charles Elton
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1419747118
- ISBN 13
- 9781419747113
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NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2022. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino—and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his career. The 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. Record # 381064
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 381064
- Title
- Cimino: the Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision
- Author
- Charles Elton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1419747118
- ISBN 13
- 9781419747113
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2022
- Keywords
- cinema, Directors, , .
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