VHS : Heaven's Gate: Culticide in California
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starring: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourifdirected by: Michael Cimino
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304480205
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304480202
Label: Music. Video Prod.
Manufacturer: Music. Video Prod.
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Music. Video Prod.
Release Date: June 02, 1997
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 54805
Studio: Music. Video Prod.
Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 1980
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 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.
Rating:  - a real butt number
this is one of the slowest moving films i have ever seen . endless scenes moving at a glacial pace with people saying nothing , staring into space , emoting ... very difficult to determine what is happening . best watched on a dvr where you can fast forward in 30 second intervals to get through the meaningful silent staring .. the concluding scene is impossible to fathom . who is the woman ? where did she come from ..
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - Not a movie
I had a hard time making it through the last half of this DVD at 128X. In the "film as art" world, there is subtle and there is non-existent. Heaven's Gate, as anything beyond a monument to it's own excesses, is 4+ hours of none existence.
Even given all of this film's glaring missteps, Cimino might have blundered his way through like he did with The Deer Hunter, but for one fatal stroke - Kris fricking Kristopherson. What the hell was Cimino thinking? Were Buck Owens and Roy Clark ... Read More
Rating:  - It Isn't Worth Your Time to Gawk at This Particular Train Wreck.
"Heaven's Gate" is remembered today as "the film that sank United Artists" and one of Hollywood's all-time biggest box office disasters. Written and directed by Michael Cimino shortly after his success with "The Deer Hunter", its budget escalated from $7.8 million to over $40 million when UA, in a shockingly shortsighted contract, allowed Cimino unlimited cost overruns. Cimino shot an outrageous 1.3 million feet of film and edited the film to 5 hours and 25 minutes, then to the 3 hour 39 minute version ... Read More
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