July 3, 2016

Michael Cimino dead at age 77

(Paul Mirengoff) Michael Cimino, director of the acclaimed "The Deer Hunter" (1978) and the panned and financially ruinous "Heaven's Gate" (1980), died today at age 77. I consider the former film slightly overrated (except for the pre-Vietnam part) and the latter underrated. But in both cases, I left the theater with the strong feeling that I had seen something, a sense I rarely got the time and get even less now. "The

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