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 decade earlier. By 1978, however, American audiences were finally...

The Deer Hunter (1978) is an Academy Award winning American film about a trio of Rusyn American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. It is loosely inspired by the German novel Three Comrades (1937), by World War I army...

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Deer hunters, eager for some venison, thumb their noses at disease By MEG JONES mjones@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Saturday, October 26, 2002 Eagle River -- White-tailed deer are important to Barry Clure. They feed him and his family, and when they bump...

Peter Zinner, who worked as a film editor on the first two "Godfather" films and won an Oscar for his work on 1978's "The Deer Hunter," has died. He was 88.Zinner died Tuesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica of complications from an...

Peter Zinner, who worked as a film editor on the first two "Godfather" films and won an Oscar for his work on 1978's "The Deer Hunter," has died. He was 88.Zinner died Tuesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica of complications from an...

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 film, director Michael Cimino has packed an extraordinary emotional wallop, making The Deer Hunter the most memorable American saga since Coppola's Godfather II. Like Coppola, who chose the Mafia as a microcosm of America, Cimino uses Vietnam to try to explain far more that one particular war. The white-faced, silent audiences leaving...

[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, and mysteriously hysterical. The script … does not contain a single witty, sharp, or revelatory line of dialogue. As if to compensate for this verbal aridity, the players are encouraged to indulge in interminable wet-eyed sensitivity sessions…. The Deer Hunter thus reflects in its operatic inarticulateness certain tendencies in t...

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 has refused to be trammeled by dramatic convention. Problems of motivation, plausibility, relationship, even chronology, are ignored. There is no development or illumination of character. Instead of dialogue there are grunts and obscenities. Cimino has said he was not, after all, trying to make a realistic film. The implication is that he ...

A synopsis of E.M. Corder's story The Deer Hunter, about three young Pennsylvania steelworkers whose lives are changed forever after their experiences as soldiers during the Vietnam War.