(XXXVIII:10) Michael Cimino: the DEER HUNTER (1978, 183 Min.) the Version of This Goldenrod Handout Sent out in Our Monday Mailing, and the One Online, Has Hot Links
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April 9, 2019 (XXXVIII:10) Michael Cimino: THE DEER HUNTER (1978, 183 min.) The version of this Goldenrod Handout sent out in our Monday mailing, and the one online, has hot links. DIRECTOR Michael Cimino WRITING Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn K. Redeker developed the story, and Deric Washburn wrote the screenplay. PRODUCED BY Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall, and Barry Spikings CINEMATOGRAPHY Vilmos Zsigmond MUSIC Stanley Myers EDITING Peter Zinner At the 1979 Academy Awards, the film won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and Best Sound, and it was nominated for Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Writing, and Best Cinematography. CAST Robert De Niro...Michael John Cazale...Stan John Savage...Steven Christopher Walken...Nick was the first of a “spate of pictures. .articulat[ing] the effect on Meryl Streep...Linda the American psyche of the Vietnam war” (The Guardian). George Dzundza...John Cimino won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Directing and was Chuck Aspegren...Axel nominated for Best Writing for The Deer Hunter. The film was Shirley Stoler...Steven's Mother such an artistic and critical accomplishment that he was given Rutanya Alda...Angela carte blanche from United Artists to make his next film, the Pierre Segui...Julien western Heaven’s Gate* (1980). This decision was a serious Mady Kaplan...Axel's Girl blow to Cimino’s directorial career, and it brought about the Amy Wright... Bridesmaid downfall of United Artists, forcing its sale to MGM in 1981 (The Mary Ann Haenel...Stan's Girl Guardian). Though the film was nominated for the Palm d’Or at Richard Kuss...Linda's Father Cannes and was praised for being undeniably beautiful, as if Joe Grifasi...Bandleader “David Lean decided to make a western,” the film’s producer Christopher Colombi Jr....Wedding Man Steven Bach said, it was largely “savaged by critics” (The Victoria Karnafel...Sad Looking Girl Guardian). After the failure of his follow up to his greatest Jack Scardino...Cold Old Man success, he only made four more films, his final, The Joe Strnad...Bingo Caller Sunchaser** being made in 1996 and marking his second and final appearance at Cannnes being nominated for the Palm d’Or. MICHAEL CIMINO (b. February 3, 1939 in New York City, He did find success in France with his first novel Big Jane in New York—d. July 2, 2016 (age 77) in Los Angeles, California), 2001. These are the other films he directed: Thunderbolt and according to some critical assessments, was “one of the Lightfoot* (1974), Year of the Dragon* (1985), The Sicilian** figureheads of the ambitious and intelligent US cinema of the (1987), and Desperate Hours** (1990). 1970s” while also being “the man blamed for killing it off.” His *Also wrote most significant accomplishment, 1978’s The Deer Hunter* **, **Also produced Cimino: THE DEER HUNTER—2 VILMOS ZSIGMOND (b. June 16, 1930 in Szeged, Hungary— both directed by Scorsese. De Niro received additional d. January 1, 2016 (age 85) in Big Sur, California) was an nominations for Michael Cimino's Vietnam war drama The Deer Academy Award-winning cinematographer. He won the Oscar Hunter (1978), Penny Marshall's drama Awakenings (1990), and for Best Cinematography for Steven Spielberg’s Close David O. Russell's romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and he was nominated for Playbook (2012). These are some of his other films: Three Oscars for Best Cinematography for The Deer Hunter (1978), Rooms in Manhattan (1965), Young Wolves (1968), Greetings The River (1984), and The Black Dahlia (2006). These are some (1968), The Wedding Party (1969), Bloody Mama (1970), Hi, other films he worked on: The Sadist (1963), Living Between Mom! (1970), Jennifer on My Mind (1971), Born to Win (1971), Two Worlds (1963), The Market (TV Movie documentary) The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971), Bang the Drum (1965), Futz (1969), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Hired Slowly (1973), 1900 (1976), The Last Tycoon (1976), New York, Hand (1971), Deliverance (1972), The Long Goodbye (1973), New York (1977), True Confessions (1981), The King of Comedy Scarecrow (1973), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Sugarland (1982), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Brazil (1985), The Express (1974), Sweet Revenge (1976), Obsession (1976), Winter Mission (1986), Angel Heart (1987), The Untouchables (1987), Kills (1979), The Rose (1979), Heaven's Gate (1980), Blow Out Midnight Run (1988), Jacknife (1989), We're No Angels (1989), (1981), Jinxed! (1982), Table for Five (1983), No Small Affair Stanley & Iris (1990), Goodfellas (1990), Backdraft (1991), (1984), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Fat Man and Little Boy Night and the City (1992), Mad Dog and Glory (1993), This (1989), The Two Jakes (1990), The Bonfire of the Vanities Boy's Life (1993), A Bronx Tale* (1993), Mary Shelley's (1990), Sliver (1993), Maverick (1994), The Crossing Guard Frankenstein (1994), One Hundred and One Nights (1995), (1995), Jersey Girl (2004), Melinda and Melinda (2004), Casino (1995), Heat (1995), The Fan (1996), Sleepers (1996), Cassandra's Dream (2007), Compulsion (2013), and Six Dance Marvin's Room (1996), Cop Land (1997), Jackie Brown (1997), Lessons in Six Weeks (2014). Wag the Dog (1997), Ronin (1998), Analyze This (1999), Men of Honor (2000), Meet the Parents (2000), The Score (2001), Showtime (2002), Analyze That (2002), Godsend (2004), Shark Tale (2004), Meet the Fockers (2004), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004), The Good Shepherd* (2006), Little Fockers (2010), Killer Elite (2011), Last Vegas (2013), American Hustle (2013), The Comedian (2016), and Untitled De Niro/Ramirez/Jakubowicz Project (announced). *Also directed JOHN CAZALE (b. August 12, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts—d. March 12, 1978 (age 42) in New York City, New York) was an American actor. He appeared in five films over six years, all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and The Deer Hunter (1978). Cazale, though seriously ill with lung cancer that had metastasized to his bones, continued working while filming The Deer Hunter, dying the year it was released. Before his break into film, he acted on stage and in the 1962 short The American Way and the 1968 TV series N.Y.P.D.. JOHN SAVAGE (August 25, 1949 in Old Bethpage, Long Island, New York) is an American actor (233 credits). One of Savage's most notable roles is as Claude Bukowski in Miloš Forman's 1979 film Hair. His first major film role was as Steven Pushkov in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter. In his many roles, he has worked with some of the greatest filmmakers of the past 40 years, including Spike Lee in Do the Right Thing (1989) and The Summer of Sam (1999), Terrence Malick in The Thin Red Line (1998), and David Lynch in his 2017 Twin Peaks series. These are some of his other film appearances: The Master Beater ROBERT DE NIRO (August 17, 1943 in New York City, New (1969), Love Is a Carousel (1971), Bad Company (1972), York) is an American actor (116 credits), producer (35 credits), Steelyard Blues (1973), All the Kind Strangers (TV Movie) and director. He has won Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading (1974), The Sister in Law (1974), The Turning Point of Jim Role twice for The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Raging Bull Malloy (TV Movie) (1975), Eric (TV Movie) (1975), Gibbsville (1980). De Niro's first major film roles were in the sports drama (TV Series) (1976-1977), The Onion Field (1979), Inside Moves Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and Scorsese's crime film Mean (1980), Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981), The Amateur Streets (1973). He earned Academy Award nominations for the (1981), Brady's Escape (1983), Maria's Lovers (1984), Salvador psychological thrillers Taxi Driver (1976) and Cape Fear (1991), (1986), Beauty and the Beast (1987), The Godfather: Part III Cimino: THE DEER HUNTER—3 (1990), Primary Motive (1992), The Crossing Guard (1995), Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts, and in Last Cut (1997), Frontline (1999), Ghost Soldier (1999), Kill 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2003, the Your Darlings (2006), Wild About Harry (2009), Buffalo Bushido government of France made her a Commander of the Order of (2009), The Legacy of the Sun (2011), Alien Rising (2013), In Arts and Letters. She was nominated for Oscars for The Deer Dubious Battle (2016), Fake News (2017), Followed (2018), and Hunter (1978), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sensory Perception (2019). Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), Evil Angels (1988), for which she won Best Actress at Cannes, Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Adaptation. (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), August: Osage County (2013), Into the Woods (2014), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and The Post (2017). These are some of her other films: Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976), Julia (1977), Manhattan (1979), The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979), Still of the Night (1982), Falling in Love (1984), Heartburn (1986), Defending Your Life (1991), Death Becomes Her (1992), The House of the Spirits (1993), Before and After (1996), Marvin's Room (1996), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), The Hours (2002), Angels in America (TV Mini-Series) (2003), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), Rendition (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018).