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If you don't get it right, what's the point?
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Michael Cimino
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My clearest memory of Ferriday is driving over to sit in the decaying old Arcade theater in 1978, because unlike Natchez’s conservative theaters, the Arcade was showing Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter. To this day, I believe the Arcade owners booked the film because they thought it was a movie about deer hunting, not Vietnam. The Concordia Beacon
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Greg Iles (Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4))
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Movies That Grew Me Spirit of the Beehive—Victor Erice Walkabout—Nicolas Roeg Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus)—Marcel Camus Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory—Mel Stuart Ratcatcher—Lynne Ramsay Throne of Blood—Akira Kurosawa It’s a Wonderful Life—Frank Capra Drugstore Cowboy—Gus Van Sant The Deer Hunter—Michael Cimino The Wizard of Oz—Victor Fleming To Live—Zhang Yimou Persepolis—Marjane Satrapi
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Flea (Acid for the Children: A Memoir)
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We seem to be in the ironic and paradoxical position of not really trusting the gentleman [Michael Cimino] with our money and, therefore, insisting that he take more.
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Steven Bach (Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists)
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PAULINE KAEL: "In all probability Michael Cimino could read Steven Bach a lot better than Bach could read Cimino.
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Steven Bach (Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists)