Following The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino was viewed as the next great director in an era defined by its auteur filmmakers.
Cimino, largely given free-rein, crafted a film that went vastly over budget and over schedule and ultimately was blasted as a mess.
After a 219-minute cut was put together in 2005, Cimino personally supervised a 2012 restoration that clocks in at 216-minutes.
It would all come crashing down in unbelievable fashion, though, with Cimino’s follow-up, Heaven’s Gate.
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