Heaven's Gate
Summary:
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 impressionis... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Kris Kristofferson - (Marshal James Averill)
Christopher Walken - (Nathan D. Champion)
Isabelle Huppert - (Ella Watson)
Sam Waterston - (Frank Canton)
John Hurt - (Billy Irvine)
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Review:
The dire financial and professional consequences Heaven's Gate visited upon its director and studio can't be disputed, but the virtues of the film itself remain more open to debate. Though unwieldy, unsatisfying, and self-indulgent to a fault -- Michael Cimino appears uncomfortable shooting a scene with fewer than fifty extras -- its excesses... Continue >>
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