Heaven's Gate a classic
Over at David Lowery's blog he talks about Heaven's Gate , and its director Michael Cimino. There is a link to a documentary on the movie narrated by William Dafoe. It's a good documentary, and after seeing it I had to post some of it here. I remember when this came out. It was 1980, and I was still in high school. I was enmeshed in film making back then. I started watching movies differently. It was also the height of the VCR, and believe it or not movies on videotape was the coolest thing. Only thing was that there wasn't much product yet. So the movies was where you still went to to study them. Heck! I remember sitting in theaters from afternoon till evening watching movies over and over again. I do remeber seeing a re-release of this movie. Not it's two and half hour version, but the original 219 minute version. By the time they released this I was in college I believe. I saw it somewhere in Manhattan, and seeing it blew me away. It's ironic that for a ...