Heaven's Gate (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
The only thing greater than their passion for America... was their passion for each other.
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- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 3 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 20, 2012
- Originally Released: 1980
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kris Kristofferson, John Hurt, Isabelle Huppert & Christopher Walken | |
Performer: | Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Joseph Cotten, Jeff Bridges, Mickey Rourke, Geoffrey Lewis, Paul Koslo, Richard Masur, Ronnie Hawkins, Robin Bartlett, Tom Noonan & Terry O'Quinn | |
Directed by | Michael Cimino | |
Edited by | Vilmos Zsigmond, Lisa Fruchtman, Jerry Greenberg, William Reynolds & Tom Rolf | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Cimino | |
Composition by | David Mansfield |
Entertainment Reviews:
Neither Kris Kristofferson nor Christopher Walken, both of them fine actors, can prevail against the relentless scale and movement of the production.
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The Spectator
Rating: 5/5 --
Cimino endows the visuals with a Zola-esque texture and realism. But the characterisation and dramatic reach go beyond even that.
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Financial Times
On a purely sensory level, Heaven's Gate is overpowering.
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Slate
A chaotic concert where disparate notes have been mixed. It's as if director Michael Cimino wanted to make various different films. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 3/5 --
It is a bloated Western that contains some extraordinary moments, a lot of heavy-handed political commentary and a hell of a lot of padding.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 9/10 --
Enormous, but also gorgeous in its enormity.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
The first critics to lay eyes on it mistook the emphasis on the personal and painterly for self-indulgence - static naval gazing. This confuses incident with the incidental.
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The Ooh Tray
Product Description:
An epic post-Vietnam look at the Western genre and the exploitation of immigrant settlers, HEAVEN'S GATE is based on the historical 1890s Johnson County War incident in Wyoming. Visually remarkable sequences and a haunting score frame the story. Sheriff James Averill (Kris Kristofferson), educated in the east and full of idealism, attempts to protect immigrant farmers when wealthy land barons hire mercenaries to settle their scores. The hired guns, including Nathan Champion (Christopher Walken), plan to kill a number of farmers whose names appear on a death list and whom the farmers believe have been stealing their cattle. Backed by the army and the federal government, the mercenaries prepare to attack the farmers when Averill and Champion clash over the impending massacre and Ella Watson (Isabelle Huppert), a local prostitute and woman they both love. Shot right after Cimino's triumphant DEER HUNTER, the film is a violent, unsentimental look at the American frontier.
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- Sales Rank: 58,161
- UPC: 715515101110
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