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Criterion Collection: Heaven's Gate [DVD] [1980] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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4.1 out of 5 stars 118 customer reviews
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  • Format: NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.40:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (118 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B008Y5OWSO
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 115,789 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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5.0 out of 5 starsCimino's masterpiece finally finds its audience
By Anorakus on 30 Nov. 2013
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
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.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA classic where I come from.
By Jason Parkes #1 HALL OF FAME on 22 Dec. 2002
Format: VHS Tape
Michael Cimino's film would be held up as the archetypal Hollywood film that went vastly over-budget & failed to recoup the costs. Deemed a failure, jounalists gathered like vultures and books like The Final Cut (Stephen Bach) appeared- this would spell the end of New Hollywood- an era that had been ushered in with Bonnie & Clyde and Easy Rider would come to a close with this film- and Beatty's Reds (and perhaps Schrader's Lucas/Coppola produced Mishima). Art cinema would be off the menu- Bogdanovich & Coppola would have money problems, Scorsese would become a director for hire & Cimino would never recover. The High Concept would dominate the 80's- movies like Top Gun, Flashdance & Rambo would replace the possibilities offered up by auteurs like Cimino and Coppola. Our loss.
Heaven's Gate has dated wonderfully, this full-length 3hours 28 minutes version is much more satisfying than the edited take previously released (the 1980's would see many works cut to bits- such as Dune and Once Upon a Time in America). This is a far more satisfying Western than many that have followed it, such as Pale Rider, Dances with Wolves, Wyatt Earp, Tombstone & Ride with the Devil (but not Unforgiven or Dead Man). Cimino's epic ambition is all evident on-screen (photographer Vilmos Zsigmond captures a stunning world). As with Reds, you can see where the money went- a stunning recreation of an era in terms of art direction, design & costume.
This easily ranks next to Thunderbolt & Lightfoot and The Deer Hunter (whose epic vision was leading towards this epic-epic) and can a film with a cast including Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterson, Joseph Cotton & Brad Dourif be anything less than wonderful?Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsControversial, flawed - but still great
By Jen Wilson on 28 April 2012
Format: DVD
So much has been written about this movie that the experience of actually watching it is unique: you find yourself trying to ignore the critics, and just lose yourself in, what is, a pretty special film. Yes, it damaged the director's reputation. Yes, it bankrupted the studio. Yes, it failed at the time to live up to the hype. And yet, leaving all that aside, we have as sumptuously a mounted western as you'll ever see, and a complex, fascinating story. For too long people have been unwilling to forgive the perfectionism that went into the production. What they're missing is a film which takes the time to set up a recreation of a true chain of events which ought to be remebered - for comparison, watch the much shorter, glossier Johnson County War. This is the real deal. Buy the full-length Director's Cut, not the truncated version. If you love Hollywood history, especially the 70s when this was devised and filmed, then this is right up there in terms of significance with The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. Not to say that Heaven's Gate isn't flawed. There are traces of self-indulgence - moments when we want a gritty West, not touches of David Lean. But we should remain thankful that one man persevered with his vision towards the end of a time when films like this were still being made.
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4.0 out of 5 starsGlorious visuals but poor sound.
By JulianB on 11 Dec. 2013
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
This is the third time I've seen this film and the second time I've viewed the 216 minute version. The difference now is that the blu ray version shows off the wonderful cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond as never before. In terms of visual splendour this now rivals Barry Lyndon, Lawrence of Arabia et al. Sadly, this isn't, however, the masterpiece that they were/are. Nearly but not quite. Yes, some of the set pieces are stunning but, taken as a whole, it doesn't quite get there. My big complaint is the lack of subtitles. Okay, maybe I am going a bit Mutton Jeff in my old age but I would defy anyone to hear the dialogue in the crowd scenes. This kind of thing was quite fashionable at the time this film was made, Robert Altman being the main culprit. Call me an old fuddy duddy if you like but I kind of like hearing the script.
This grizzle aside Heaven's Gate is still worth seeing, if only for those breathtaking images and fabulous set pieces.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities

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2.0 out of 5 starsWorth seeing but better rented

Worth seeing but I am glad I rented it and did not buy it.

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1.0 out of 5 stars... movie because I thought that it couldn't be as bad as when I first...

I got this movie because I thought that it couldn't be as bad as when I first saw it 30 years ago, with the attendant bad publicity. Boy was I wrong. Read more

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Published 2 months ago by António Anselmo Almeida
5.0 out of 5 starsbut for me one of the best films I have seen

I first saw Heaven's Gate many years ago on video, and have waited a long time for this to come out on DVD. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Paul J Shingles
3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

Being deaf I rely on subtitles. Unfortunately this dvd inexplicably doesn't have them.

Published 2 months ago by Mr. N. Parry-williams
1.0 out of 5 starsneeds subtitles!!!

One star simply because the dialogue is inaudible???

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