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...public’s judgement of films made by industry-proclaimed “auteurs”—excess. This came to mind when I looked at part of the Brattle Theatre’s slate for the weekend—two matinee screenings of Michael Cimino??s famous disaster Heaven’s Gate...
Maybe they need to watch the film again. It really is terrible. But it’s not surprising that the attempt is being made, as if Cimino??s artistic virility is somehow etched into the process that has been so ‘unjustly’ villified. These historians seem to be asking themselves – how could Heaven’s Gate possibly be bad? It’s big, it’s epic, it has a great cast, and it’s from an established director whose compulsive perfectionism must have been...
This attempted resuscitation of Heaven’s Gate is endemic of a larger issue – the valuing of excess, be it from the eyes of the public, the industry, or the critics. Sure, no one was praising Cimino??s film for spinning out of control when it was in production, so maybe it’s a bad example...
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