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| Budget |
$40
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Filmming
Location |
1979.04.15~10.29
Montana, USA |
Date
Released
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1980.11.17
USA |
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withdrawn
3 days after
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Heaven's Gate (1980)
DIRECTOR: Michael Cimino
CAST: Kris Kristofferson; Christopher Walken; John Hurt; Sam Waterston; Anna Levine Thompson
SYNOPSIS
Based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion, over the woman - Ella Watson, they both love. Both men find themselves questioning their roles in the furious conflict between wealthy landowners and European immigrants attempting to build new lives on the American frontier, which culminates in a brutal pitched battle.
NOTE
7years later, Steven Bach, the
producer of Heaven's Gate, published "Final Cut - Dreams and
Disaster of Making Heaven's Gate". For momerials, go: http://cinematreasures.org/.
For a discussion, go to FORUM
QUOTE
Isabelle Huppert
The Latest French
Flavor, Fotogramas, June
10, 1981
It's part of investigation, let's say, what interested me was
to experience the confiement and the hope that they characterize
the profession. Cimino made me spend days in a brothel of Wallace,
Idaho. It was interesting, although it was something scared
and soon I wanted to leave it. It is something completely dehumanized.
They are beings without too many hopes, a lethargic exsitence.
They sleep at 6 of the mornig and get up at 3 of the afternoon,
and they never leave except for the medical examination once
every two weeks.
Isabelle Huppert
The Mouse
Who Came in From the Cold, Independent, August 31, 1995
A very impressive film, and probably one of the most memorable
professional adventures I ever had in my life.
Isabelle Huppert
Le Plaisir de jeu, Julia Julia
Kristeve & Serge Toubiana, November 21, 2001
I returned to the locations of Heaven's Gate, I spent
six months on the set which was entirely constructed. One believed
it; one thought it was a real village. One year after, it
no longer existed, it was a parking lot. When one plays, one
has very selective momory of the places. A photograph sticks
to the fiction where you are living.
AWARD
Official selection in competition at Cannes 1981
TRIVIA
Orginally in $12 Millions and
ended up more than $40 Millions.
The original three-month shooting was stretched to twice. The
film was open on November 18, 1980, but withdrawn from the
theater
only
one
day after.
More 8,000 still photos were taken,
approved by Michael Cimino for publication. 4,000 more are
of him and his crew.
Isabelle spent six months on the
set, only left for home twice for weekends; For
playing the madam of the brothel, Isabelle went to the real
brothel
in
Wallace,
Idaho; She had to learn dancing, riding and shooting; Godard
came to visit her on the set (Montana), took her out for a
lunch, and offered her a role with one line
- "She has a face of suffering". This would be the
role of that indifferent prositute
Isabelle in Godard's Sauve
qui peut (la vie).
REVIEW
An
Unauthorized Progress Report on Heaven's Gate, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sept. 1979
The Making of Apocalypse
Next,
Time, 3 Sept. 1979
Talk with Isabelle
Huppert, New York Times, 25 July, 1980
Heaven's Gate, American Cinematographer, Oct. 1980
Michael Cimino's Way West, American Film, Oct. 1980
Isabelle Huppert -
The Virtues and Pitfalls of Independence,
New York Times, 16 Nov. 1980
Heaven's Gate
- an Unqualified Disaster, New York Times,
19 Nov. 1980
Heaven's Gate
Taken Off Market, New York Times, 20 Nov. 1980
Behind the FIASCO
of Heaven's Gate, New York Times, 21 Nov.
1980
Poses - Heaven's
Gate, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 1980
Heaven's Can't Wait, Film Comment, Jan-Feb, 1981
Why Heaven's
Gate Failed, Christian Science Monitor, 7 May,
1981
Heaven's Gate
Tries again at Cannes, New York Times, 21 May,
1981
Isabelle Huppert:
the Last French Flavor, Fotogramas, June
10, 1981 (at Cannes)
Failure of an Epic, New York Times, 28 July, 1985
Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster
in the making of Heaven's Gate,
by Steven Bach, 1985
Hollywood's
Fallen Angel, Financial Times, 4 Jan. 1986
Last
of the Big Spenders, Independent (London), 14 July
2002
Far From the Heaven,
Toronto Star, March 12, 2005
Isabelle Huppert Retour Au Paradis, Studio N° 214, Jul.-Aug.,
2005
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