Deer Hunter, The – 40th Anniversary Edition
Michael Cimino’s masterpiece, The Deer Hunter, has been stunningly restored to mark its 40th anniversay.
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter is widely acknowledged as one of cinema’s great masterpieces and contains some of the most memorable scenes in film history. When Michael (Robery De Niro), Steven (John Savage) and Nick (Christopher Walken) are captured by the Vietcong, they are forced to play Russian Roulette by their brutal captors, who make bets on their survival. The experience of capture leaves them with terrible physical and psychological wounds, and when Michael returns to Saigon to fulfill an old promise to one of his friends, he makes an unexpected, horrific discovery.
Special Features
-Interview with film critic David Thomson
-1979 ITV South Bank show interview with Michal Cimino
-Realising The Deer Hunter, interview with Michael Cimino
-Shooting The Deer Hunter, interview with Vilmos Zsigmond
-Playing The Deer Hunter, interview with John Savage
-Michael Cimino Audio Commentary
-Vilmos Zsigmond & journalist Bob Fisher Audio Commentary
-Deleted and Extended Scenes
