Happy Birthday: Michael Cimino (1939–2016)

Michael Cimino (1939–2016)

Born: February 3, 1939 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: July 2, 2016 (age 77) in Los Angeles, California, USA

[how the failure of Heaven’s Gate (1980) affected his life] It was really a great trauma, as everyone knows. Since then, I’ve been unable to make any movie that I’ve wanted to make. I’ve been making the best of what is available. [People Magazine, Nov. 11, 1996]

[on The Deer Hunter (1978) post-9/11] They’ve been running The Deer Hunter (1978) like crazy on Bravo. And here is the whole goddamned Congress singing ‘God Bless America’ on the steps of the US Capitol. I said, ‘Holy shit, this is the ending of the movie.’ Do you get now, 20 years later, why that was in the movie? [July 2002]

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 dir. Michael Cimino Cast Clint Eastwood Jeff Bridges The Deer Hunter 1978 dir. Cimino starring Robert DeNiro Meryl Streep Heaven’s Gate 1980 dir. Cimino starring Kris Kristofferson Christopher Walken

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