Urs Flueeler Cimino accepts a prize at the 68th Locarno International Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland, in 2015. By dint of its confrontational subject matter, “The Deer Hunter” had direct access to a nation’s shell-shocked psyche in a way that the more historically remote “Heaven’s Gate” would not. Cimino accepts a prize at the 68th Locarno International Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland, in 2015. Edwin Reichert / Associated Press Michael Cimino in Berlin in 1979. Michael Cimino in Berlin in 1979.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 03, 2016 20:48 UTC