Word: gate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country right or wrong. It copped five major Academy Awards. It made money--and, in Hollywood, profits are the measure of genius. Cimino, the overweight preppy from Long Island, thought he was John Ford. He posed for photos in a cowboy hat. He announced his next project: Heaven's Gate, an epic of the American West...
AFTER FIVE MONTHS, Heaven's Gate is back, a magnificent, elephantine joke of a movie. There's preverse pleasure in watching such a grandiose bad movie, a $35-million B-picture...
...Wyoming territory of poor immigrants who steal their cattle in order to survive. Cimino wanted to make a bold statement about the injustice of the American aristocracy, he wanted to show the corruption of the Frontier Spirit. Not a bad idea. And crawling through Heaven's Gate's quagmire of chaotic, irrelevant scenes, unexplained connections between events, unclear alliances between people, and awful dialogue, you can find traces of that original idea...
...Heaven's Gate is not "an unqualified disaster." Cimino has discovered that cameras move, so, unlike The Deer Hunter, his new movie isn't almost entirely composed of long and medium shots with the camera staring. There are some exhilirating, sweeping pans of the vast homestead and interesting tracking through the streets of Casper, Wyo. In two parallel scenes--a waltz in Harvard Yard (it's actually Oxford) at the beginning of the film and a party at the Heaven's Gate Skating Arena in Wyoming--Cimino's camera moves with a lovely, fluid grace, catching...
...international repercussions. The plot for the film Rollover, due to be released in December, is made even more intriguing by the presence of Co-Stars Jane Fonda (The China Syndrome, Coming Home) and Kris Kristofferson (A Star Is Born; and this week's re-released Heaven's Gate), who do not ordinarily play corporate types. Still, the actress came prepared for her Establishment role, right down to her fingertips. "I had to let my nails grow," says Fonda, 43, "but I'm going to cut them when this is over. I've found that...