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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 impressionistic tapestry of Western conflict between poor immigrant settlers and rich cattle barons led by Canton (Sam Waterston) and his hired gun Nate Champion (Christopher Walken). Attempting to mediate is idealistic Harvard graduate and county marshal Averill (Kris Kristofferson), who is both Nate's friend and his romantic rival for the affections of Ella Watson (Isabelle Huppert). However, war erupts, at great cost to all involved. Flush from his success with the Oscar-winning The Deer Hunter (1978), Cimino demanded creative control, and his insistence on shooting on location and building historically accurate sets and props multiplied the film's original budget to a then-astronomical $36 million. When United Artists premiered the original 219-minute version (sight unseen), they discovered that Cimino had produced an elliptical epic, compounding the box-office difficulties of making a Western without any major stars. Critics howled about Cimino's incomprehensible self-indulgence, and United Artists pulled the film after several days. Re-released five months later, 70 minutes shorter, Heaven's Gate bombed again, and MGM bought out the financially crippled United Artists. The ailing Western genre virtually vanished during the 1980s, Cimino's career never recovered, and Hollywood studios had had enough of bankrolling financially risky ventures by "auteur" directors. Heaven's Gate's reputation recovered somewhat after its video release, as it garnered praise from some viewers for such visually remarkable sequences as the Harvard dance and the final battle, as well as for David Mansfield's haunting score. Steven Bach's book Final Cut provides a full production history. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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Movie Title : Heaven's Gate
Release Date : Nov 19, 1980 Limited
Genre Movie :Western,Drama,Action & Adventure
Mpaa Rating : R
Actors :Kris Kristofferson,Christopher Walken,Isabelle Huppert,Sam Waterston,John Hurt,Brad Dourif,Jeff Bridges,Joseph Cotten,Rosie Vela,Ronnie Hawkins,Geoffrey Lewis,Robin Bartlett,Jack Blessing,Jarleth Conroy,Willem Dafoe,Mady Kaplan,Caroline Kava,Allen Keller,Paul Koslo,Anna Levine

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User Ranting Movie Heaven's Gate : 3.1
User Count Like for Heaven's Gate : 5,066
Critics Ranting For Heaven's Gate : 6.1
Critics Percentage For Heaven's Gate : 56 %

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On a purely sensory level, Heaven's Gate is overpowering.
Dana Stevens-Slate

If anything, Michael Cimino's inert disaster of a Western has gotten worse over the years ...
Joshua Rothkopf-Time Out New York

The longer version is impressive as long as the characters and settings remain in long shot; only when the camera gets closer do the problems start.
Jonathan Rosenbaum-Chicago Reader

It really is a stinker.
Dave Kehr-Chicago Reader

The balance of director Michael Cimino's film is so confusing, so overlong at three-and-a-half hours and so ponderous that it fails to work at almost every level.
Variety Staff-Variety

For all the abuse heaped on it, this is -- in its complete version, at least -- a majestic and lovingly detailed Western which simultaneously celebrates and undermines the myth of the American frontier.
Tom Milne-Time Out

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.
Ed Whitfield-The Ooh Tray

I will leave others to pick nits off this epic panorama.
Philip French-Observer [UK]

It is a demanding film, without a doubt - but a passionate one.
Peter Bradshaw-Guardian [UK]

Cimino endows the visuals with a Zola-esque texture and realism. But the characterisation and dramatic reach go beyond even that.
Nigel Andrews-Financial Times

Emotionally stings like few other westerns.
Glenn Heath Jr.-Little White Lies

Its status as a true wonder-work of American cinema is now surely beyond doubt.
Robbie Collin-Daily Telegraph

The set-pieces are majestic and its disenchanted view of the american frontier myth still rings ominously true.
Philip Kemp-Total Film

Michael Cimino's film represented a slight return to classicism--to larger-than-life Panavision spectacle and crane shot-managed majesty, however contradicted by narrative bleakness.
Joseph Jon Lanthier-Slant Magazine

I like Heaven's Gate just fine, but I don't love it. I wish I did. It's fun to participate in the redemption of a film maudit.
Christopher Long-Movie Metropolis

[VIDEO ESSAY] "Heaven's Gate" is an unforgettable film full of heartfelt sincerity and pointed commentary about America's bloody history of hypocrisy, greed, and racism.
Cole Smithey-ColeSmithey.com

Flawed but interesting piece of art in the form of an anti-Western.
Ian Nathan-Empire Magazine

Beneath the hype and the excess is a beautiful, moving, at times surprisingly subtle film that hovers precariously somewhere between greatness and folly.
-Film4

This beautiful but notoriously disappointing film is one of the most overblown epic Westerns of any decade.
-TV Guide's Movie Guide

A second look at Cimino's 1981 epic Western suggests that it has major problems but is not a total catastrophe.
Emanuel Levy-EmanuelLevy.Com

If you can get past its self-indulgences, somewhat ineffectual action scenes and other structural flaws in its filmmaking, it's really quite a remarkable film.
Dennis Schwartz-Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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