Michael Cimino on capturing the real world on film
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In this segment from our DVD of HEAVEN’S GATE, which features behind-the-scenes footage from the film, director Michael Cimino discusses the need to demolish the walls of the film frame. “You want to get to the real world," he says. "Movies have something essentially magical about them. In the words of my friend Bernardo Bertolucci, you're creating a nostalgia for a past that never existed.”
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Heavens Gate is an absolute masterpiece. In my top 5.
@johndeagle4389
4 жыл бұрын
I've seen it 3 times. Thumbs down. Pretentious!
@rdothl5
Жыл бұрын
@@johndeagle4389 Maybe you dont apriciate that part of America and its European immigrants history. It is so beautiful and still current.
@johndeagle4389
Жыл бұрын
@@rdothl5 ap·pre·ci·ate not apriciate
@johndeagle4389
Жыл бұрын
@@rdothl5 This film is not historically accurate.
@silversnail1413
11 ай бұрын
@@johndeagle4389 It's more historically accurate than Braveheart and everyone in Hollywood gobbled that movie's knob hard.
1:03 Michael cites Bernardo "movies create a nostalgia for a past that never existed"
@elliottbronstein1214
3 жыл бұрын
That's who he was. America's Bertolucci.
Rest in peace to a man who knew what natural beauty looked like...
Brilliant! What a genius, visionary filmmaker.
One of the best movies ever made.
Yes this film had narrative and dramatic flaws, but from a purely visual standpoint, Heaven's Gate is and will remain one of the supreme achievements of American cinema.
Damn that guy got flattened in the first shot. That must’ve hurt
me: geez, the critics were a little harsh on Heaven's Gate. Why didn't they just criticized the movie, and not the budget! Criterion: opens a special feature with a cart crashing onto someone with the very first shot.
Very nice outtakes.
hes fascinating to listen to
People overlook Year Of The Dragon
@thevoid99
5 жыл бұрын
that's my favorite film by cimino.
Great vid thanks for sharing
I would love to see it on a big screen again. Big comfy seats and loads of popcorn.
@space.midnight.cowboy
2 жыл бұрын
Popcorn is for annoying douchebags
Sam Watterston's in there -- Sydney Schanberg recently passed as well. RIP
i think his best film is year of the dragon
@farragutspikes1
8 жыл бұрын
No way! Heavens Gate all day.
@ULTRAWIDE.
5 жыл бұрын
Year of the dragon is more enjoyable.
@thevoid99
5 жыл бұрын
agreed. i hope it comes to criterion soon along with "thunderbolt and lightfoot" and "the sicilian" in its director's cut.
@ZiggyPeterLewis
Жыл бұрын
Deer Hunter ffs are you guys nuts ? Heaven's gate misses perfection from a hair ; Deer Hunter is perfection. You can live into that movie with the characters.
@space.midnight.cowboy
Жыл бұрын
@@thevoid99 no.
super wow!
RIP
Surreal seeing guys walking around in late 70's fashion while seemingly stuck in late 19th century old west.
What kind / size lens is used in these shots?
@space.midnight.cowboy
10 ай бұрын
Anamorphic lense
@eugeniolugo7207
10 ай бұрын
@@space.midnight.cowboy ... thanks
God Damit why did he have to die.
@Theomite
8 жыл бұрын
Well, he wasn't doing much with his life except not making movies. As a director, that's kinda defeats the purpose of living.
@trivellekoolaidrian6921
4 жыл бұрын
@@Theomite lol, succinctly put, Michael Cimino would have said the same thing.
@space.midnight.cowboy
Жыл бұрын
@@Theomite he wrote books.
@Theomite
Жыл бұрын
@@space.midnight.cowboy Did NOT know that. What'd he write?
@space.midnight.cowboy
Жыл бұрын
@@Theomite two novels.
The way Cimino was treated was almost criminal they used him as a scapegoat to crush the Auteurs and bring about the slow steady decline of cinema to the point we are at today. Hevans Gate is problematic and flawed but also utterly gorgeous and reaching for some kind of truth. Ciminio may have been out of control but to listen to his deeply profound words here and think about the film he was TRYING to make versus what we get fed today it just feels like we have lost So much since this era of flimmaking.
to think that some thought he was a charlatan defies logic after hearing this.
A controversial figure at best and worst RIP