Michael Cimino

Married to the Enemy: The Pathological Obsession Beneath Michael Cimino’s ‘Year of the Dragon’

  By Tim Pelan   No-one does excess quite like Michael Cimino, director of Heaven’s Gate and The Deer Hunter.…

6 years ago

Michael Cimino’s ‘Year of the Dragon’ is one of the most significant action movies of the period

Oliver Stone at one point described Michael Cimino as “the most Napoleonic director he ever worked with.” This impression was…

9 years ago

Michael Cimino’s ‘Heaven’s Gate’ teaches us that great art ultimately triumphs, no matter the circumstances

  By Sven Mikulec   The 1980 epic American Western Heaven's Gate, a beautiful work and a film we hold…

9 years ago

“Michael Cimino’s ‘The Deer Hunter’ is one of the most emotionally shattering films ever made”

  By Sven Mikulec   Try not to look for symbolism in the movie, because there is none. There’s no…

10 years ago