Cimino's Defeat at Torn Page

After gaining acclaim and recognition with his film The Deer Hunter, director Michael Cimino rose to fame and power within the flourishing New Hollywood system. With his new found success came megalomania, and Cimino's following film Heaven's Gate was rife with production troubles and ultimately flopped. This commercial and critical failure resulted in the end of Hollywood's director driven era and the beginning of commercial, studio driven filmmaking. Witness the seeds of this cinema apocalypse in an intimate, behind the scenes style in Cimino's Defeat.