Michel Cimino's Heaven's gate [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; United Artists ; Partisan Productions, Ltd. presents ; written by Michael Cimino ; produced by Joann Carelli ; directed by Michael Cimino.
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FilmPublisher number: CC2204D | The Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 636.Publication details: Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, 2012.Edition: Special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (216 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 p. ; col. ill. ; 18 cm)ISBN: - 1604656565
- 9781604656565
- Heaven's gate
- Heaven's gate (Motion picture).
- Music by David Mansfield ; art director, Tambi Larsen ; editor, Tom Rolf ... [et. al.] ; director of photography, Vilmos Zsigmond.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism, Cimino used the historical Johnson County War incident in Wyoming to create an impressionistic tapestry of Western conflict between poor immigrant settlers and rich cattle barons led by Canton (Sam Waterston) and his hired gun Nate Champion (Christopher Walken). Attempting to mediate is idealistic Harvard graduate and county marshal Averill (Kris Kristofferson), who is both Nate's friend and his romantic rival for the affections of Ella Watson (Isabelle Huppert). However, war erupts, at great cost to all involved. Flush from his success with the Oscar-winning The Deer Hunter (1978), Cimino demanded creative control, and his insistence on shooting on location and building historically accurate sets and props multiplied the film's original budget to a then-astronomical $36 million. When United Artists premiered the original 219-minute version (sight unseen), they discovered that Cimino had produced an elliptical epic, compounding the box-office difficulties of making a Western without any major stars. Critics howled about Cimino's incomprehensible self-indulgence, and United Artists pulled the film after several days. Re-released five months later, 70 minutes shorter, Heaven's Gate bombed again, and MGM bought out the financially crippled United Artists. The ailing Western genre virtually vanished during the 1980s, Cimino's career never recovered, and Hollywood studios had had enough of bankrolling financially risky ventures by "auteur" directors. Heaven's Gate's reputation recovered somewhat after its video release, as it garnered praise from some viewers for such visually remarkable sequences as the Harvard dance and the final battle, as well as for David Mansfield's haunting score. Steven Bach's book Final Cut provides a full production history. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1980.
Special features: Disc 1: Cimino and Carelli [2012 audio conversation]. Disc 2: Interviews: Kris Kristofferson, David Mansfield, Michael Stevenson; Restoration demonstration; Teaser; TV spot.
Disc one : Director's cut of Part 1; illustrated audio interview with director and producer -- Disc two : Director's cut of Part 2; interviews of actor, assistant director, performer and soundtrack arranger; restoration demonstration; teaser and TV spot.
Music by David Mansfield ; art director, Tambi Larsen ; editor, Tom Rolf ... [et. al.] ; director of photography, Vilmos Zsigmond.
Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Joseph Cotten, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Paul Koslo, Richard Masur.
A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
MPAA rating: R.
DVD, NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen (2.40:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
In English with optional English SDH.