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...support that made the management case study of an aspiring businessman in "human satisfaction" into a success in Risky Business. Where that film, for instance, used exaggerated shots to distort Joel's parents visually, matching their distortion in the mind of the aspiring pimp, here Director of Photography Vilmos Zsigmond displays none of the visual creativity he and steven Spiclberg brought to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It is as if he simply ran the production like a Broadway show and set up a single camera in front of the stage. Whenever the film cuts out of a modeling...
...exquisite cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond enhances Heaven's Gate's bright moments. Cimino's most striking images of the Old West, shots of gunmen riding across the plain or through smoky streets, their long dustcoats flapping in the wind, have a haunting glow to them, a strange old photograph quality...
...there is grandeur in this folie. Cimino's voluptuous romantic imagination and the dusky imagery of Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond produced breathtaking panoramas of majestic landscape and milling hordes. A hundred happy couples waltz in circles within circles in Harvard Yard; 20 years later and 2,500 miles west, another hundred couples roller-skate to fiddle music in a cow-town grange hall. In Cimino's Wyoming, it is never high noon; everything happens in misty morning or dusty dusk, so the oblique, ruminative sunlight can memorialize every moment. Some viewers with educated eyes found scenes of beauty...
...plays in bed with her pickup of a lover (a frisky, sexy Frederic Forrest), the closeups are steamy and relentless. When Rose lands by helicopter at her nighttime stadium concerts, it looks like the arrival of the mother ship in Close Encounters (both films were shot by Vilmos Zsigmond). The movie's many drunken barroom brawls, not to mention its gratuitous excursions into the gay demimonde, unfold in gaudy, neon-tinged studio sets. This is vulgarity at its most absurd and most amusing...
...Cimino and his company are working as well as spending. The director pores over the day's takes until after midnight and sleeps only three or four hours a night. "I have no private life," maintains Cimino, who is a bachelor. Says the film's cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmond (who also shot The Deer Hunter), "Michael fell in love with this film...