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'Deer Hunter' director Michael Cimi** dies aged 77
The success of "The Deer Hunter", a 1978 film about the Vietnam War starring Robert De Niro, made Cimi** one of the most sought-after directors in Hollywood. The film won five Academy Awards, including best picture and best director. Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux tweeted the news on Saturday that Cimi** died peacefully, "surrounded by his family and the two women who loved him. We loved him too." The cause of death was **t immediately k**wn. U.S. media reports said Cimi** died at his home in Los Angeles, citing the Los Angeles County coroner's ******. Officials at the coroner's ****** did **t immediately respond to a request for comment. According to Variety, friends phoned the police when they could **t reach him and he was found dead on Saturday. Word of Cimi**'s death triggered tributes from admirers including De Niro, who said their work together was something he will always remember. "He will be missed," De Niro said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "The Deer Hunter," which explored the impact of the Vietnam War on a small town of steel workers in Pennsylvania, was also a big boost for the careers of Meryl Steep and Christopher Walken, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times described it as "one of the most emotionally shattering films ever made." But after that movie's runaway success, Cimi** followed up in 1980 with "Heaven's Gate," an epic Western that New York Times critic Vincent Canby called "an unqualified disaster." The film came in way over budget at $36 million, three times the average cost of a movie in those days, and Cimi**'s career never fully recovered. "He went from a big Oscar film to suddenly being a pariah - everybody's whipping boy," Kris Kristofferson, who starred in the film, told the Los Angeles Times in 2004. "Everybody who didn't get to do a film blamed 'Heaven's Gate,' saying all the money went to 'Heaven's Gate.'" Born in New York City to a wealthy family, Cimi** earned a master's degree in architecture at Yale University. He was a well-k**wn director of TV commercials before directing his first movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," a crime drama starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges, in 1974. After the flop of "Heaven's Gate", Cimi**'s comeback film in 1985, "Year of the Dragon," starring Mickey Rourke as a New York City cop, failed to excite either moviegoers or critics. He followed up with "The Sicilian," based on a Mario Puzo **vel; and "Desperate Hours," a remake of a Humphrey Bogart film about a fugitive, starring Rourke and Anthony Hopkins. Both films were panned by critics and largely ig**red by filmgoers. His final Hollywood film, 1996's "The Sunchaser," a drama about a doctor, played by Woody Harrelson, who is kidnapped by a dying patient, didn't fare any better and marked the end of Cimi**'s career. أكثر... ??????? ??????: 'Deer Hunter' director Michael Cimi** dies aged 77 || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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