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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elton, Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Abrams, Inc., 2022.

Summary:

"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. Based on extensive interviews with Cimino's peers and collaborators and enemies and friends, most of whom have never spoken before, it unravels the enigmas and falsehoods, many perpetrated by the director himself, which surround his life, and sheds new light on his extraordinary career. This is a story of the making of art, the business of Hollywood, and the costs of ambition, both financial and personal"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Copyright Page

Contents

Prologue

Part I: 1939-1976

Chapter 1: The Tarnished Coast

Chapter 2: Coffee Moment in Malibu

Chapter 3: The Secret World

Chapter 4: Thunderbolt in Hollywood

Part II: 1976-1981

Chapter 5: Stalking the Deer Hunter

Chapter 6: The Body Count

Chapter 7: Opening the Gate

Chapter 8: The Circus Comes to Town

Chapter 9: Kurtz in Kalispell

Chapter 10: The Retreat from Moscow

Chapter 11: The Violinist on Roller Skates

Chapter 12: The Gates of Hell

Part III: 1981-1996

Chapter 13: Footloose in Hollywood

Chapter 14: Chasing the Sun

Part IV: 1996-2016

Chapter 15: Shadow Conversations

Chapter 16: The Woman from Torrance

Chapter 17: Phoenix

Chapter 18: June 30, 2016

Chapter 19: Wizard

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes and Sources

Bibliography

Index of Searchable Terms.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Elton, Charles Cimino

ISBN:

9781683359920

OCLC:

1306206022