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Dec 4, 2015 · Two-and-a-half hours into Michael Cimino’s epic Western, Heaven’s Gate, a band of townsfolk bustles into a hotel room to wake up a dead-drunk federal marshal (Kris Kristofferson). The marshal...
Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, and Joseph Cotten, and loosely based on the Johnson County War.
Jul 19, 2021 · Heaven’s Gate is a cautionary tale with a deceptive epilogue, as the aforementioned high-concept contingencies of the ’80s did anything but provide an antidote to Hollywood bloat. Instead ...
- Adam Nayman
Jul 11, 2014 · In the case of “Heaven’s Gate”, Cimino was so obsessed with creating physical beauty at any cost that he completely forgot the heart. Even at nearly four hours, it appears more like a series of unconnected and disjointed sequences strung together rather than a coherent film with a strong story.
Aug 2, 2013 · Based on the war of Johnson County, Wyoming, in 1892, it plays as a struggle between conscience and duty as Kris Kristofferson resists the cattle barons' murderous plans for the immigrant...
Kris Kristofferson brings his weathered sensuality to the role of a Harvard graduate who relocates to Wyoming as a federal marshal; there, he learns of a government-sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area’s European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the bloody real-life Johnson County War of 1892.
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“Michael Cimino was researching the history of barbed wire in the West when he came across the real-life tragedy that would provide the basis for his screenplay for Heaven’s Gate (the cover of which is shown above): the bloody 1892 Wyoming range war known as the Johnson County War.” —10 Things I Learned: Heaven’s Gate by Curtis Tsui
