"The Deer Hunter" is a movie about heartbreak: of war and men under pressure, and of a friendship lost when it was supposed ...
Despite this, Cimino’s revolutionary picture continues to be a powerful piece of anti-war cinema and an essential watch for ...
It is shortsighted and limiting to call this great work of art a film about Vietnam. The Deer Hunter is a film about friendship, about the ability to survive, about what Shakespeare called the ...
As Roger Ebert pointed out, after sweeping Vietnam epics like Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter, this movie simply sets out to establish "the bottom line, which is that a lot of people went over ...
The lives of three American steelworkers and their families are torn apart in the wake of the Vietnam War. After enduring horrific treatment in a prison camp during the conflict, the three friends ...
Stur has given us a fascinating and wonderfully readable account of South Vietnam’s diverse political milieu during the American war. Using Vietnamese and American sources, she illuminates the ...
Michael Schulman, author of Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep, says that as a young theatre actress Streep “wasn't all that interested in movies…[and] joined The Deer Hunter, the 1978 Vietnam ...
The United States’ war in Vietnam was a conflict associated with ... Full Metal Jacket, or The Deer Hunter), which is in stark contrast to the generally positive or heroic depictions of WWII.
We examine some of the biggest cultural landmark movies for the generation that saw the world change from the 1950s to today.
Miss Saigon has been hailed as one of the most beloved musicals of all time, and it certainly lives up to its hype. The award-winning show was last staged here at Kallang Theatre in 2001.
When The Deer Hunter finally depicts Michael, Nick, and Steven in Vietnam, audiences see them suffer some extreme horrors. Most notably, they are imprisoned and forced to play Russian Roulette in ...