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Heaven's Gate (1980)
2xDVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | 216 mins | 7,33 Gb + 7,15 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
Genre: Drama, Romance | The Criterion Collection #636
2xDVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | 216 mins | 7,33 Gb + 7,15 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
Genre: Drama, Romance | The Criterion Collection #636
Director: Michael Cimino
A breathtaking depiction of the promise and perils of America’s western expansion, Heaven’s Gate, directed by Michael Cimino, is among Hollywood’s most ambitious and unorthodox epics. Kris Kristofferson brings his weathered sensuality to the role of a Harvard graduate who relocates to Wyoming as a federal marshal; there, he 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 bloody real-life Johnson County War of 1892. Also starring Isabelle Huppert and Christopher Walken, Heaven’s Gate is a savage and ravishingly shot take on western movie lore. This release presents the full director’s cut, letting viewers today see Cimino’s potent original vision.
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Based on 'The Johnson County War', "Heaven's Gate" is set in late 1890's Wyoming, where cattle barons wage war on immigrant settlers from eastern Europe. When the odious Frank Canton draws up a death list (with government backing) containing 125 names, James Averill (Kristofferson) must decide whether to help the oppressed settlers or stand aside and allow Canton's hired hands to engage in an orgy of bloodshed.
History records that "Heaven's Gate" cost $44 million to make, took $1.5 million during a brief theatrical run and brought United Artists to financial ruin.![Heaven's Gate (1980) [The Criterion Collection #636] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/c2/57/002757c2_medium.jpeg)
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Critical response to the most unjustly maligned film in cinema history was largely unfavourable, with the majority of critics indulging in their own kind of vicious bloodletting: "boring", "at least 90 minutes too long", "sketchy characterisation"…… just a few of the comments aimed at a director who "didn't know when to stop shooting!" Maybe those same 'learned scribes' should sit and watch the two hour abortion occasionally screened on Sky, and then return to Cimino's 219 minute cut. It's here they'll find a film of exquisite beauty, where Vilmos Szigmond's painterly photography ensures damn-near every shot is a work of art, set to David Mansfield's celestial score.![Heaven's Gate (1980) [The Criterion Collection #636] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/c3/57/002757c3_medium.jpeg)
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Performance-wise, "Heaven's Gate" almost manages to surpass its sumptuous visuals:Kristofferson and Jeff Bridges (saloon keeper, James H. Bridges) deliver career-bests, Isabelle Huppert (Ella Watson) has rarely been better as the feisty Madame who juggles her emotions between Averill and part-time lover/mercenary Nate Champion (Walken) while John Hurt is unforgettable as the almost permanently blotto William Irvine.![Heaven's Gate (1980) [The Criterion Collection #636] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/c4/57/002757c4_medium.jpeg)
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Despite an excellent ensemble cast, the eye/ear candy provided by such splendid sound and vision could result in the screenplay being overlooked: subsequent viewings, however, will reveal an intensely moving script, conveying its characters collective feelings of loss, jealousy and regret. Even the finale is a masterpiece as we realise Averill has spent over 3 hours reliving his past from a ships deck, before ending the film with wordless acknowledgement of a request for a cigarette from his old college sweetheart; possibly the most moving scene in the entire film as Averill's eyes confirm a life that once was so full of promise has now lost all meaning.![Heaven's Gate (1980) [The Criterion Collection #636] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/c5/57/002757c5_medium.jpeg)
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Far from being an unmitigated disaster, "Heaven's Gate" is a staggering accomplishment and never fails to remind me of that classic line from Edith Wharton: "Next to death, life is the saddest thing there is."
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…but Ebert is wrong to call it a 'waste'. It may have cost $36 million and numerous jobs but separate the finished product from the production and what you have is a powerful epic, grand in both ambition and execution, which is a worthy last hurrah of the 'New Hollywood' era. Some say the fall of UA was already under way and if that is the case, well surely if you are going out you are obliged to do so style?![Heaven's Gate (1980) [The Criterion Collection #636] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/c7/57/002757c7_medium.jpeg)
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Right from the start this is a big film, whether it be the hallowed chapels and courtyards of the civilised East, the frantic streets of the frontier or the plains of Wyoming, Cimino and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (Deliverance, McCabe & Mrs Miller, Bonfire of the Vanities - oh dear) ensure that the beautifully composed shots never feel forced (check out the framing and depth when Richard Masur's Cully walks out to meet Averill's train). For 219 minutes they fill the frame with gorgeous landscapes and milk every last cent out of the much maligned and extravagant sets. …talking of which, take a moment to consider the sheer scale of the exterior scenes in the streets of Casper. The grandiose nature of what you are seeing, in all its pre-CGI glory, is stunning - this is how it must have been.![Heaven's Gate (1980) [The Criterion Collection #636] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/c9/57/002757c9_medium.jpeg)
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This feeling of authenticity pervades the entire film. The frontier has never looked harsher; grass has never seemed more barren or farming more brutal. Amidst the mud, the wind and the dirt even the bullets look more deadly. This is not the clinical distracting epic-as-painting approach as practiced by the likes of Lean (do you remember the boy soldiers being killed or the lush field in which it happens?) but a much more involving and authentic aesthetic.![Heaven's Gate (1980) [The Criterion Collection #636] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/ca/57/002757ca_medium.jpeg)
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Of course Heaven's Gate is not just a collection of images. Cimino is a master at staging both simple and elaborate action sequences. He guides the audience in the same precise manner whether the subject is roller-skating or violent battle. In addition the cast performs on a uniformly high level and the story itself remains gripping throughout.
What more can I add?
How about the superb mirroring of the graduation celebrations with the final confrontation or the mysterious and soul destroying final scene?
What about the simplicity of a director taking time to tell a story?![Heaven's Gate (1980) [The Criterion Collection #636] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/cb/57/002757cb_medium.jpeg)
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This is an important film. I love it, many don't, but surely even the nay-sayers can't deny that Heaven's Gate deserves a new audience and some fresh attention - hell, I bet it would even make some money.
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Special Features:
- New, restored transfer of director Michael Cimino’s cut of the film, supervised by Cimino
- New restoration of the 5.1 surround soundtrack
- New illustrated audio interview with Cimino and producer Joann Carelli
- New interviews with actor Kris Kristofferson, soundtrack arranger and performer David Mansfield, and second assistant director Michael Stevenson
- Trailer and TV spot
- Booklet
All Credits goes to Original uploader.
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