The Deer Hunter (Blu-ray) R
One of the most important and powerful films of all time!
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Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 3 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: October 14, 2014
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Universal Studios
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: Deleted and extended scenes
- Feature commentary with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and film journalist Bob Fisher
- 100 years of Universal: Academy Award Winners
- Theatrical trailer
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 2.35
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono - English, Spanish
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, Spanish
- DTS HD Master Audio - English, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep & Christopher Walken | |
| Performer: | John Savage, John Cazale, George Dzundza, Chuck Aspegren, Shirley Stoler & Rutanya Alda | |
| Directed by | Michael Cimino | |
| Edited by | Peter Zinner | |
| Screenwriting by | Deric Washburn | |
| Composition by | Stanley Myers | |
| Produced by | Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino & John Peverall | |
| Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"One shot is what it's all about; a deer has to be taken with one shot."
- Michael (Robert De Niro)
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1978 -
Best Director: Michael Cimino
Academy Awards 1978 -
Best Film Editing: Peter Zinner
Academy Awards 1978 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1978 -
Best Sound: Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight, Richard R. Portman & William McCaughey
Academy Awards 1978 -
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken
Entertainment Reviews:
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It has no more moral intelligence than the Clint Eastwood action pictures, yet it's an astonishing piece of work, an uneasy mixture of violent pulp and grandiosity, with an enraptured view of common life -- poetry of the commonplace.
New Yorker
A powerful film made with impressive style, and one of the key films of the decade.
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Electric Sheep
Cimino's sprawling Vietnam drama is an intimate epic, favouring the personal over the political....This is an ensemble cast par excellence.
Sight and Sound
Hell is war in Michael Cimino's decade-defining classic...
Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
The Deer Hunter is a work of staggering scope and ambition: an epic treatise on the malignancy running through American civilian and political life in the 1970s.
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One Room With A View
...A big, awkward, crazily ambitious, sometimes breathtaking motion picture that comes as close to being a popular epic as any movie about this country since THE GODFATHER....[Streep] gives a smashing film performance...
New York Times
5 stars out of 5 -- [A]n unforgettable study of friendship, pre-, during and post Vietnam.
Ultimate DVD
Product Description:
This epic look at the Vietnam War and its effects told through the lives of a tight knit group of friends from a Pennsylvania town was Michael Cimino's second film and established him in the pantheon of American directors. Complex and emotionally raw performances from Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep earned each an Academy Award nomination, and Christopher Walken's portrayal of Nick, who survives capture but is unable to escape its trauma, is a tour de force that earned him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. With a keen eye for nuance and a carefully structured script, Cimino interweaves the rituals great and small that make up the lives of his characters, creating a poignant sense of what remained constant and what was forever changed by their experience of the war.
Plot Synopsis:
An epic three-hour tale of lives forever changed by the Vietnam War, THE DEER HUNTER follows the transformation of a tight group of friends from a working-class town, taking its place alongside such classics as ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT in telling a story of war and disillusionment. On the eve of going to war, Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken), and Steven (John Savage) gather for Steven's wedding. Leaving Steven to his wedding night, Mike, Nick, and pals Axel (Chuck Aspergren), Stan (John Cazale), and John (George Dzundza) depart for the mountains and one last hunting trip. The hunting trip is a funny, poignant scene that firmly establishes the characters as they set off for Vietnam immediately after the trip. The scenes in Vietnam, especially the Russian roulette game, are among the most brutal war scenes on film. The characters' eventual return to the States is emotional and gut-wrenching. Michael Cimino's award-winning film is a powerful look at friendship and love in the midst of war.
Keywords:
Action
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Friends
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Classic
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Vietnam
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Jungle
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Recommended
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Military
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Character Study
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
Production Notes:
- Theatrical Release: December 12, 1978.
- In addition to an Oscar for Best Director, Michael Cimino won the Best Director Award from the Directors Guild (DGA) for THE DEER HUNTER.
- Film debut and Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Meryl Streep.
- Other awards: 1978 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director; 1978 New York Film Critics Award for Best Film and Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken).
- The screenplay for THE DEER HUNTER was nominated for an Academy Award and a Writers Guild (WGA) Screen Award.
- THE DEER HUNTER is number 79 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.
- THE DEER HUNTER was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1996.
- THE DEER HUNTER was actor John Cazale's last screen appearance; he was already seriously ill with cancer when he accepted the role, and he died shortly before the film's release.
- Streep and Cazale were romantically involved during the filming of the movie.
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- UPC: 025192251368
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