The Deer Hunter reviewed: ‘more a romantic melodrama than a realist document’ – archive, 1979
1 March 1979: Derek Malcolm reviews a film about the impact of the Vietnam war on a group of Pennsylvanian steelworkers
November 2020
Notebook
The pandemic hasn’t stopped architects dreaming of world domination
Rowan Moore
One even believes he can redesign the Earth itself to save it from catastrophe
June 2020
10 of the best ...
From Platoon to Winter Soldier: 10 of the best Vietnam war films
As Spike Lee releases new war drama Da 5 Bloods, we look back at the ways cinema has represented the 20-year conflict
December 2019
Robert De Niro's Deer Hunter archive – in pictures
The film caught the trauma of the Vietnam war. Forty years on, its star has opened his personal archive for a new book, One Shot: The Making of The Deer Hunter, offering a glimpse of never-before-seen material
February 2018
Who is the best Oscar-winning supporting actor of all time?
Christopher Walken? Joe Pesci? Heath Ledger? Our chief film critic names his champion from the nominees – and reveals who you selected as your winner
July 2016
Michael Cimino obituary
American director and screenwriter who had a huge hit with his 1978 film The Deer Hunter, but a disastrous flop with Heaven’s Gate two years later
Michael Cimino: a great of a great period in American film
The director of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate – said to have ended 70s American New Wave – leaves an indelible mark
Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate, dies aged 77
Cannes festival director says film-maker who also wrote and directed Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ‘died in peace, surrounded by friends’
April 2016
Christopher Walken: ‘I don’t need to be made to look evil’
He’s the go-to actor when it comes to menace, but does the new Jungle Book’s King Louie have a softer side?
January 2016
Vilmos Zsigmond, Oscar-winning cinematographer, dies aged 85
Hungarian-born film legend worked with Altman, Spielberg and more, winning an Oscar for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
April 2015
The crush
Crush of the week: Meryl Streep
We should call her Saint Meryl, really. She’s almost holy
July 2014
The Deer Hunter review – Cimino's masterpiece of cruelty and horror
Sacrifice colours everything in this re-released classic about three US army conscripts to the Vietnam war, writes Peter Bradshaw
February 2014
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Out of the Furnace – review
Scott Cooper's steel-town drama has an A-list cast and superb score, but its debts to The Deer Hunter rather outweigh its strengths, writes Mark Kermode
October 2010
The 25 best action and war films of all time
The Deer Hunter: No 20 best action and war film of all time
The 25 best action and war films of all time
The Deer Hunter: Story of a scene
February 2009
The deer hunter
Letters: Sergey Lavrov's view that there is need for a new system of security in Europe is shared by many
April 2008
Nick Fraser's films that made waves
Citizen Kane | Breathless (A bout de souffle) | Dr Strangelove | The Battle of Algiers | The Sorrow and the Pity | The Deer Hunter | E.T. | My Beautiful Laundrette | Schindler's List | Brokeback Mountain
November 2006
Film picks
Paul Howlett on The Machinist | Deer Hunter | Kill Bill: Vol 2
October 2006
DVD releases
The Deer Hunter - Two-Disc Special Edition | Forty Shades Of Blue | Little Fish | Atomised | The Driver | Man Of Aran
August 2004
Pick of the day
Holidays in the Danger Zone: America Was Here | The OC | Gangs of New York | The Deer Hunter | The US Open tennis
