Whatever happened to director Michael Cimino

I've always wondered what happened to Michael Cimino, the Oscar winning director of The Deer Hunter (1978).

Just this week, news from the Hollywood Reporter came out that he has given a rare interview, his first interview in years.

 The story can be found here from The Hollywood Reporter website.

He shares his thoughts about American Sniper, and how it compares with Deer Hunter. He says,

"Every first-rate film about war is an anti-war movie. You think of All Quiet on the Western Front directed by Lewis Milestone. There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive and people don't."

Louis Jourdan (1921–2015)

I was saddened to hear of the passing of Louis Jourdan; my favorite of his films: Gigi (1959) and Letter from an Unknown Woman (1947). Read more about Letter from an Unknown Woman here.

To modern audiences he is best known for playing a villain in the James Bond film Octopussy (1983) but many others best remember his earlier films such as Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), Can-Can (1960), The VIPs (1963) and the Oscar winning Best Picture Gigi (1958).

In 2004 I wrote to him and requested an autograph - he sent me this wonderful signed photo here--->

Mr Jourdan never won an Oscar, but in Gigi he performed the song that went on to win an Oscar for Best Song "Gigi". Revisit that wonderful scene from the movie here:

 

Rest in peace, Gaston.