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# Heaven's Gate Restored Edition 2 Discs [Blu-ray]

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Lost Masterpiece
  

*by A***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 December 2023*

This film really is worthy of reassessment, it may now be one of my two favourite 1980s films (the other being the equally butchered-at-the-time Once Upon a Time in America). Beyond being visually stunning, the story itself is politically pretty radical, and as time passes I think this actually had a lot to do with why the East coast critics were so determined to destroy the film when it first came out-it has things to say about America that the liberal east coast elites didn't want to hear. The cinematography alone represents some of the greatest achievements in modern cinema, but the script is much better than most people remember, and the pacing in the directors cut makes a lot of sense. This is a film that creates space for both its actors and magnificent landscapes to breathe, even to act without speaking, and that requires time. The pattern of visual circles in the film-the literal dance of life and death-is also a fascinating conceit that never seems to be mentioned or complimented on.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Cimino's masterpiece finally finds its audience
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 November 2013*

Let me start by saying that Heaven's Gate is a marvellous film, and in no way deserving of the critical mauling it got on its release. Director Michael Cimino was criticised for bloating the Johnson County War, a relatively minor albeit brutal footnote in American history, into a three-hour-plus behemoth, but to do so is to miss what Cimino was trying to achieve. The film plays out as a requiem to the American frontier, and a paean to the visceral beauty of the West. The huge budget and Cimino's attention to detail are up there on the screen, and it looks wonderful. As with all great films, it isn't so much the events depicted that draw us in as the journey we're taken on to get there.Having read the reviews I was fearing there would be precious little plot amongst the cinematic eye-candy, but this is not the case at all. This is one of the most absorbing movies I have seen. Cimino takes his time setting up the story, and the slow-burning Kristofferson-Walken-Huppert love triangle serves to heighten the tension and sense of dread leading up to the climactic battle sequence. Leading man Kris Kristofferson turns in a quiet but mesmerising performance as marshall Jim Averill, backed up by a solid supporting cast. At three and a half hours running time, Heaven's Gate is a long and nuanced film that audiences at the time - at least in the US - were perhaps not ready for. It's no surprise that the film was warmly received in Europe, as its unconventional narrative structure and slow pacing had far more in common with the French New Wave than other Hollywood fare of the time.On to the UK blu-ray release from Second Sight. This is the sort of film that the format was made for. DP Vilmos Zsigmond's widescreen panoramas look fantastic, with saturated blue skies and green fields. The HD transfer, whilst sharp and detailed, does show up the limitations of the source material, with grain and occasional scratches and sparklies present. Some sequences show reduced contrast and blooming of light areas into dark, as if they were shot with a soft-focus lens - the opening scenes at Harvard are a good case in point - but I assume this was intentional. For audio we get a choice of stereo PCM and DTS-MA 5.1. I watched with the 5.1 option selected (the disc defaults to the stereo track), and whilst it's not the most dynamic track around given the age of the film, it does a good job of balancing dialogue with background effects and music cues. Most of the action does come from the front and centre speakers - the rears could have been utilised to better effect on some of the busy outdoor scenes. HG has been criticised for having a muffled soundtrack and dialogue, and this is another reason why the film works so much better today. With the benefit of a decent surround system I was able to follow characters speaking over the loud background noise present in a few scenes - Caspar, Wyoming being a good example - but it's easy to see that cinema audio circa 1980 would have struggled to separate dialogue from the prominent background mix.The Second Sight release comes with a DVD of bonus features, the most interesting of which is the "Final Cut" documentary detailing the film's disastrous debut and the resulting fallout on the Hollywood film industry. A few years later, studios were churning out high-concept audience-pleasing hits such as Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop, and producers - not directors - wielded creative control. I'll leave you to decide whether this is a good or bad thing.One final observation - the UK version of the film has a couple of small cuts for animal cruelty scenes, amounting to about a minute of running time, but in my opinion this does not spoil the film in any way.Overall this is a must-have blu-ray - it's great to see this most misunderstood classic of American cinema get the treatment it deserves on a Region B disc. (The US market has the Criterion Collection release, but it's expensive and as with all Criterion discs is locked to Region A.)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A thing of rare Beauty
  

*by B***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2009*

"Heavens Gate" stands like some long abandoned monolith to a strange long extinct race. Its beauty is undeniable but all understanding of its reason for existence gone. An enigma whose dark murky depths are hard to fathom. The film has gone down into legend for all the wrong reasons. Due to the directors grand vision the film went way over budget. On its initial release it was poorly reviewed and made a pittance. It led to the collapse of the prestigious United Artists studio and was a salutary lesson to the industry. Never was a director to have such control again and the shift went back to the studios. It is a lesson the studios still remember with clarity. Unfortunately the reputation of Michael Cimino was destroyed and he was never trusted by Hollywood afterwards.The film is set around the Johnson County War of 1890 in Wyoming. A true historical event but not on the epic scale portrayed in the film. The area is being flooded by European immigrants some of whom have been killing cattle to live. This upsets the local cattle barons who hire regulators to dispose of the worst offenders. Within this framework we have a love story between a prostitute Ella Watson played by Isabelle Huppert, Nate Champion a cowboy enforcer played by Christopher Walken and a sympathetic lawman Jim Averill played by Kris Kristofferson. The story heads to a tragic and bloody climax.Of the films characters, I have to say Walken as Champion is the most compelling. Kristofferson is a little stiff, but as Champion says of him "He has style", and he certainly does. An interesting cameo is thrown in by Joseph Cotten that old Welles favourite in one of his last roles. Jeff Bridges is excellent as ever as one of the immigrants. Mickey Rourke has an early appearence long before his recent resurgence in Aronofskys "The Wrestler". John Hurt also gives his usual impeccable performance as a friend of Jim from Harvard days. Overall a very strong cast.Today the film has been viewed by some as a revisionist Western and has made some respected top film lists. For myself I liken it to indulging in a very rich chocolate truffle after Christmas. So indulgent that I question whether I really needed it. The film is beautiful to look at. The dancing scenes seem to go on forever. The strangely choreographed dancing in the Harvard scenes owes more to Busby Berkley than a Western and must have cost a fortune. But to what end? Undeniably beautiful but was it necessary to the story? The film stands like a beautiful folly. Lovely to look at but what point. In the final analysis I enjoyed revisiting this film and would recommend it to you, history and all. Like some lovely paintings it is a thing of rare beauty.

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