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Simon Collins

Simon Collins

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

I am in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to visit my daughter. This is my first visit to the Steel City, so to ‘acclimate’ I re-watched The Deer Hunter, much of which was shot here. The ugly industrial backdrops reminded me of the northern English city where I was an undergraduate myself when the film was released.

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