Who is the best director of all time?
Fatima Wolf
2025-08-01 20:10:05
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The director Michael Cimino is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director.
Elton’s Cimino is a richly detailed biography that offers a revisionist history of a lightning rod filmmaker.
Based on extensive interviews with Cimino’s peers and collaborators and enemies and friends, most of whom have never spoken before, it unravels the enigmas and falsehoods, many perpetrated by the director himself, which surround his life, and sheds new light on his extraordinary career.
Noted television producer and author Charles Elton delves deeply into the making and aftermath of the movie and presents a surprisingly different view to that of Steven Bach, one of the executives responsible for Heaven’s Gate, who wrote a scathing book about the film and solidified the widely held view that Cimino wounded the movie industry beyond repair.
This is a story of the making of art, the business of Hollywood, and the costs of ambition, both financial and personal.
Callie Cormier
2025-08-01 17:02:54
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Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his name has become synonymous with the highest standards of filmmaking excellence. He is widely considered America's best living film director, and his Taxi Driver and Raging Bull appear frequently on worldwide surveys of the best films of all time. Scorsese has become something like Hollywood royalty in recent years, finally enjoying the insider status and favor that eluded him for most of his career. Scorsese is also notable as a distinctly American type of artist, one whose work-created in a medium largely controlled by commercialism and marketing-has always been unmistakably his own, and who thus remains a touchstone of artistic integrity in American cinema.
Colten Schuppe
2025-08-01 15:22:09
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Best Director
Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director,
Academy Award winners Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken star in this unforgettable saga of friendship and courage.