Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino began studying theater and architecture at Yale University before directing commercials and short documentaries. He later began to exercise his talents as a screenwriter, notably on Silent running, an ecological science-fiction story adapted in 1972 by Douglas Trumbull, responsible among other things for the visual effects on Blade runner, or on Magnum Force (1973), the sequel to the muscular adventures of Inspector Harry directed by Ted Post.

In 1974, supported by his star Clint Eastwood, he managed to make his first film, Le Canardeur, road movietragicomic which in no way announces the extent of his films to come but which contains in germ the "Cimino style", at the same time imbued with a dry violence and very attentive to natural landscapes, in a spirit inherited from John Ford and King Vidor. Four years after this first attempt, he began filming a saga both lyrical and intimate about the Vietnam War, Voyage au bout de l'Enfer, in which he follows the fate of three friends before, during and after their engagement in the conflict. Carried by the interpretation of Robert De Niro and a very young actor named Christopher Walken, the film is a huge success and, despite the controversy it arouses among some of the critics who qualify it as "fascist" , won 5 Oscars, including that for best director.

This sudden fame prompted the independent studio Les Artistes Associés to entrust him, barely two years later, with the disproportionate budget at the time of $ 40 million for the filming of a new, no less ambitious epic, La Porte du paradise. This contemplative and elliptical fake western describes the conflict between, at the end of the last century, the Anglo-Saxon herders and the colonists who came from Eastern Europe for the possession of American territory. When it came out, this very long film, totally misunderstood and despised by the public and critics alike, was mutilated by its producers, which did not prevent the latter from going bankrupt (American critic Steven Bach recounted the film's career in his famous book Final Cut). The profession will be angry with Cimino for a long time, considered then, because of this cursed film, as the gravedigger of American auteur cinema.

After several years without filming, he made his return with a commissioned work: a violent thriller set in the middle of the Chinese underworld, The Year of the Dragon (1985), and whose main character, a brutal policeman, is played. by Mickey Rourke. He created a scandal again by proposing a pessimistic vision of Asian immigration, a vision which was criticized as "racist". Nevertheless, the success of the film in theaters put him back on track, and Cimino then followed a few works of lesser importance: Le Sicilien (1987), La Maison des otages (1990), for which he found Mickey Rourke, and The Sunchaser (1995). ), which remains his last film to this day.

Wounded by the Hollywood retribution, annoyed by his repeated conflicts with the producers, Michael Cimino had since then distanced himself from the cinema. We know that he had been working seriously, for several years, on the adaptation of André Malraux's classic, La Condition humaine .

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Michael Cimino Net Worth 2022

Michael Cimino 's revenue is $ 1.4M in 2022. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Michael Cimino and could vary in the range between $ 504.5K - $ 1.2M.

Michael Cimino Net Worth 2021

Michael Cimino 's revenue is $1.9M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Michael Cimino and could vary in the range between $514.7K - $1.2M.

Michael Cimino Net Worth 2020

Michael Cimino 's revenue is $1.3M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Michael Cimino and could vary in the range between $583.3K - $1.8M.

Michael Cimino Net Worth 2019

Michael Cimino 's revenue is $1.7M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Michael Cimino and could vary in the range between $500.7K - $1.3M.

Michael Cimino Net Worth 2018

Michael Cimino 's revenue is $1.4M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Michael Cimino and could vary in the range between $954.2K - $2M.

Michael Cimino Net Worth 2017

Michael Cimino 's revenue is $1.7M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Michael Cimino and could vary in the range between $748.1K - $1.9M.

Michael Cimino Net Worth 2016

Michael Cimino 's revenue is $1.4M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Michael Cimino and could vary in the range between $938.4K - $1.5M.

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