6 Reasons Why Michael Cimino Will Never Work in Hollywood Again (VIDEO)

It has been a long time since I was in the same room with director Michael Cimino. My first job out of NYU Cinema Studies was in the publicity department at United Artists in New York, where I witnessed the long delays on Cimino’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 1978 anti-war screed “The Deer Hunter,” the period western “Heaven’s Gate.”  The director got caught up in chasing authenticity  in the myriad details of the production, training the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate— for a scene that was eventually cut—and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably...

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