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The Deer Hunter
Before Director Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter, the only cinematic treatment of the Vietnam War most Americans had seen was John Wayne's The Green Berets a de...
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Critical Essay by Tom Buckley
There is no story [in The Deer Hunter], only a succession of unconnected episodes strung together for what seems like an interminable three hours and four minutes. Cimino...
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Critical Essay by Gloria Emerson
[The Deer Hunter is] a sick and manipulative film—remarkable only for its adolescent perceptions and wild selfindulgence—that is impressing many people a...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
Early in the 1960s I joined the protests against US involvement in Vietnam, kept protesting as that involvement grew, and kept on after the withdrawal of US troops ...
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Critical Essay by Marshall Delaney
[Cimino's] attitude toward the material is the source of The Deer Hunter's great success and at the same time the reason it has been a subject of contr...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
[The Deer Hunter, a] three-hour saga of three Russian-American Pennsylvania steelworkers in and out of Vietnam, turns out to be massively vague, tediously elliptical, a...
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Critical Essay by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The Deer Hunter is a self-appointed American epic. Its scale is large, its ambition vast. It seeks to invest a sweep of American experience with mythic signif...
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Critical Essay by Ted Whitehead
Here we go on another trip around those old American obsessions—the primacy of courage, the worship of nature, the inflation of male friendship into a love surpa...
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Critical Essay by Gavin Millar
The Deer Hunter is not run of the mill. It is made with great seriousness and dedication…. So much about The Deer Hunter is impressive: it is said that strong men...
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Critical Essay by John Pilger
The Deer Hunter is technically slick, and perhaps its documentary and verité effects are even brilliant; something must have prompted usually discriminating critic...
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Critical Essay by Richard West
It might be said … that Michael Cimino, who wrote and directed The Deer Hunter, had chosen an off-beat locale for the part of his film set in America. But what of...
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Critical Essay by Arthur Lubow
The Deer Hunter is the first postwar Vietnam epic, a film that tries to say it all…. Into three hours of well-written, artfully edited, superlatively acted color ...
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The Deer Hunter
"The deer Hunter" by E. M. Corder is a great book about three young men named Michael, Steven and Nick steelworkers from the town Clairton in Pennsylvania, but they are going to the V...
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The Deer Hunter
Critical Essay by Tom Buckley
The Deer Hunter
