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 and his hired gun Nate Champion. Attempting to mediate is idealistic Harvard graduate and county marshal Averill, who is both Nate's friend and his romantic rival for the affections of Ella Watson. However, war erupts, at great cost to all involved. Flush from his success with the Oscar-winning The Deer Hunter (1978), 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 and Cimino's career never recovered. 


STARS.........: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt 
DIRECTOR......: Michael Cimino
WRITER........: Michael Cimino
GENRE.........: Western, Adventure, Drama
METASCORE.....: 57
TOMATOMETER...: 57
IMDB RATING...: 6.8/10  11,423 votes
IMDB link.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080855
RUNTIME.......: 3h 37mn
SIZE..........: 8.36GB
VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC (Main@L4)
BITRATE.......: 5000 Kbps
RESOLUTION....: 1920x1080
ASPECT RATIO..: 2.39:1
FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps
AUDIO.........: English E-AC3 5.1 512kbps
SUBTITLES.....: ENG, FRE
CHAPTERS......: Yes
SOURCE........: Heaven's.Gate.1980.2-Discs.1080p.Blu-ray.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-HDChina
ENCODED BY....: Sartre
ENCODE DATE...: 2018-05-17


Extras
-Restoration Demonstration
-Cimino and Carelli
-Kris Kristofferson
-David Mansfield
-Michael Stevenson
-Teaser
-TV Spot