“Heaven’s Gate” has returned to life, restored to Cimino’s director’s cut (with some new, minor tweaks made by Cimino himself) and backed by the imprimatur of the Criterion Collection ...

Once reviled, Michael Cimino’s controversial “Heaven’s Gate” (1980) may remain — despite the Criterion Collection’s effort to resuscitate it — a cautionary tale of directorial hubris ...

“Heaven’s Gate” will be at Film Forum all week and has been reissued as a Blu-Ray by the reliable folk at Criterion. The film is neither the monument to Seventies Cinema (TM) it has lately ...

Now, finally, the winds of change have begun to blow favorably upon Heaven’s Gate. A stunning new restoration produced by the Criterion Collection and supervised by Cimino has brought the film ...

Here are links to some of the things we discussed this week: The Heaven’s Gate Criterion Collection Blu-ray. Peter Biskind’s book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll ...

on DVD by the Criterion Collection. During the shoot of “Heaven’s Gate,” Carelli married David Mansfield, a young musician who played a remarkable role in the film—a fiddler who performs ...