An American Class | Heaven's Gate [Region 2] | Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken

DVD: Heaven's Gate [Region 2] | Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken

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Heaven's Gate

Twenty-eight years ago it would have been difficult to sit through more than 3 hours of this film in the theatre but we have the advantage of DVDs now. If you love westerns and you love the Old West, you have to like and enjoy this motion picture. It deserves a new reputation. Watch it in the DVD format for an hour or more in two or three sessions. You will be much more favorable to the production in all of its dimensions.

An American Class

Michael Cimino's politically radical view of a slice of American history should, in time, be regarded as one of the greatest of American films. Its many powerful and evocative scenes remind us what movies can do.

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Not many movies can take credit for bringing about the demise of a movie studio--but Michael Cimino's ego-driven, overblown Western is one of them. These days, its $40 million budget would barely cover the cost of an Adam Sandler film--but in 1981, it virtually put United Artists out of business. Cimino, fresh from an Oscar for The Deer Hunter, spent months assembling this ultimately gorgeous and confusing story of the Johnson County cattle wars of 1881, with a cast that included Kris Kristofferson, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, and many more. Almost four hours in its original form, the film was cut to less than three for an abortive commercial release, then restored for video. Anyway you look at it, this is a mess better viewed as a curiosity than anything else. --Marshall Fine

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