Finally took on Michael Cimino's epic Heaven's Gate, the film which is attributed to single handedly leading to the demise of the director-driven film production Hollywood era of the 70's. I can't say it was as bad as everyone says but it was admittedly self indulgent and unnecessarily 3 hours and 39 minutes. Definitely a great looking film with the love triangle between Kris Kristofferson, Isabella Huppert and Christopher Walken driving the plot. The composer David Mansfield, The Alpha Band violinist/guitarist with T Bone Burnett and Stephen Soles, has a few cameos, one as the town roller skating fiddler, one of the more memorable scenes which can be seen HERE. Huh? In the old West? The bottom line is that it is a great looking film:
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