Heavens Gate
A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a sheriff born into wealth attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
10 January 1935, Huntsville, Arkansas, USA
13 July 1960, Mumbles, Swansea, Wales, UK
13 September 1956, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
14 May 1953, Lubbock, Texas, USA
25 September 1949, USA
30 September 1944, Galway, Ireland
31 March 1943, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
24 March 1949, New York City, New York, USA
16 March 1953, Paris, France
27 June 1944, Germany
18 September 1953, New York City, New York, USA
17 November 1937, Eunice, Louisiana, USA
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
9 July 1946, Germany
15 May 1905, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
September 29, 2014
Enormous, but also gorgeous in its enormity.
March 19, 2013
If anything, Michael Cimino's inert disaster of a Western has gotten worse over the years ...
February 09, 2006
For all the abuse heaped on it, this is -- in its complete version, at least -- a majestic and lovingly detailed Western which simultaneously celebrates and undermines the myth of the American frontier.
August 15, 2013
The first critics to lay eyes on it mistook the emphasis on the personal and painterly for self-indulgence - static naval gazing. This confuses incident with the incidental.
June 08, 2015
Neither Kris Kristofferson nor Christopher Walken, both of them fine actors, can prevail against the relentless scale and movement of the production.
April 01, 2013
On a purely sensory level, Heaven's Gate is overpowering.
March 02, 2012
The longer version is impressive as long as the characters and settings remain in long shot; only when the camera gets closer do the problems start.
March 27, 2015
It is a bloated Western that contains some extraordinary moments, a lot of heavy-handed political commentary and a hell of a lot of padding.
August 01, 2013
It is a demanding film, without a doubt - but a passionate one.
July 22, 2008
The balance of director Michael Cimino's film is so confusing, so overlong at three-and-a-half hours and so ponderous that it fails to work at almost every level.
August 04, 2013
I will leave others to pick nits off this epic panorama.
March 02, 2012
It really is a stinker.
