Monday, November 4, 2013

Heaven's Gate (USA: Michael Cimino, 1980)



Heaven's Gate (USA: Michael Cimino, 1980: 149 mins)

Brody, Richard. "Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939-2016." The New Yorker (July 12, 2016)

Cimino, Michael, Scott Foundas and Kris Kristofferson. "Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate." The Close-Up (July 13, 2016) ["The director broke through with his 1978 best picture Oscar winner, The Deer Hunter, which embodied the style and ethos of the New Hollywood movement that produced epics like The Godfather and Chinatown before it. Cimino’s follow up was Heaven’s Gate, an ambitious take on the western starring Kris Kristofferson as a federal marshal investigating a government-sanctioned plot to steal land from European settlers in Wyoming. Heaven’s Gate is widely known to be one of the biggest box-office flops in history, effectively ending the New Hollywood era and causing United Artists to go under. But the film has been reappraised in recent years, and many believe it to be a misunderstood classic. After a sold-out screening of the film’s Director’s Cut at the 50th New York Film Festival back in 2012, an emotional Cimino took the stage saying, “It’s difficult to be rational in this moment . . . it’s taken 33 years to get here.”]

Dargis, Manohla. "The Second Coming of Heaven's Gate The New York Times (March 17, 2013)

Flores, Julian. "The Auteurs: Michael Cimino." Cinema Axis (July 24, 2014)

Johnson, Marilynn S. Violence in the West: The Johnson County Range War and the Ludlow Massacre. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009.

Lim, Dennis. "Time Has Been Kind to ‘Heaven’s Gate’." The New York Times (September 23, 2012)

Mansfield, David. "Plays Heaven's Gate Waltz." Current (November 27, 2012)

McGee, Patrick. From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.[Professor has copy]

"Repertory Pick: Return to Heaven." Current (March 21, 2013)

Tsui, Curtis. "10 Things I Learned: Heaven’s Gate." Current (November 23, 2012)

Vallan, Giulia D’Agnolo. "Heaven’s Gate: Western Promises." Current (November 20, 2012)

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