Biography: Michael Cimino |
Writer/producer/director Michael Cimino, the son of a Long Island-based music publisher, earned an MFA in Painting at Yale University, where he also became involved with student theatrical productions. Upon moving to New York City, he augmented his... more
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Cast: Roman Polanski Ethan Coen Hou Hsiao-Hsien Atom Egoyan David Cronenberg Michael Cimino Joel Coen Theo Angelopoulos
Length: 119min
At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally oriented omnibus films, with no official relation between them but all produced within a few years of one another. Few could claim...
Cast: Anne Bancroft
Tags: Road Movie Crime Thriller Drama Thriller
Length: 122min
Michael Cimino, the director of The Deer Hunter and the ill-fated Heaven's Gate, helmed this bizarre New Age action picture in 1996. Based on a screenplay by Charles Leavitt, the film stars Woody Harrelson as Dr. Michael Reynolds, a rich, young L.A....
Cast: Anthony Hopkins
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 105min
The Desperate Hours directed by Michael Cimino, is an attempt to remake the Humphrey Bogart classic of the same name with indifferent results. Bosworth (Mickey Rourke), a brutal criminal on the run with his partners, takes over a house occupied by an...
Tags: Crime Drama Crime Biopic
Length: 146min
Adapted from Mario Puzo's novel, The Sicilian is an attempt to chronicle the life and times of Mafia leader, patriot and real-life Robin Hood Salvatore Giuliano, the infamous bandit who, together with his rag-tag band of guerillas, attempted to...
Cast: Oliver Stone
Tags: Action Thriller Police Detective Film Crime
Length: 136min
Best known for his 1978 film The Deer Hunter or perhaps the less-successful Heaven's Gate, director Michael Cimino turned to this fast-paced actioner set in an authentic (back lot) Chinatown. This thriller stars a rogue Polish-American cop (Mickey...
Tags: Revisionist Western Western Epic Western
Length: 220min
A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist,...
Cast: Robert De Niro Meryl Streep
Tags: War Drama Reunion Films Anti-War Film Ensemble Film Drama
Length: 183min
One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class...
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Cast: Clint Eastwood George Kennedy Jeff Bridges
Tags: Comedy Drama Melodrama Buddy Film
Length: 114min
As much an eccentric character study as a road movie, Michael Cimino's directorial debut follows the adventures of a quartet of misfits in their life of crime. Retired thief Thunderbolt (Clint Eastwood) and sweet drifter Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) meet...
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