Michael Cimino

4 films on Best Blurays2 in 4K2 in HD

Michael Cimino (February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for writing and directing The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate, the latter of which was initially poorly received before being re-assessed positively in subsequent decades.

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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

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Capelight 4K Blu-ray

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Video Notes:

> Kino Lorber caps. Capelight has better encoding than the Kino.

Recommended upgrade for viewers who aren't DV compatible due to Capelight properly encoding the HDR10 base layer instead of Kino, who require a huge DV layer to "fill in" picture information from a more compressed / compromised