Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky
Episode 61: The Deer Hunter (1978)
Released 20 May 2020
For this episode, we watched The Deer Hunter, written Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker and directed by Cimino. It stars Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken. The Academy rained Oscars upon it, awarding Cimino Best Director, Walken Best Supporting Actor, and giving it Best Sound and Best Editing as well as Best Picture. There were also nominations for de Niro and Streep as well as for the cinematography and screenplay.
Oscar’s Only Human https://youtu.be/fyZkOHcjyak Lois Lane (Leslie Ann Warren) shoots Clark Kent https://youtu.be/d37I2Z-Dpmc?t=403Next time we will be discussing Amadeus. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA), but note that the director’s cut is far more widely available than the Oscar-winning theatrical cut.
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