Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihlpg!jcjeff From: jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (jeffreys) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Obscure films Message-ID: <164@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 13:59:54 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpg.164 Posted: Fri Feb 8 13:59:54 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 06:50:30 EST References: <3744@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 39 > > "Heaven's Gate" > Before you all shout "What! Not that infamous flop!", wait a minute. > How many of you saw "Heaven's Gate"? Raise your hands high, it's hard to > see you over data communications lines... I thought so, almost none of you. > Well, "Heaven's Gate" probably received the most undeserved hatchet job > critics have ever given a film, at least since the French writers > unanimously dumped on Renoir's "Rules of the Game". "Heaven's Gate" isn't a > masterpiece, but it's a solid, entertaining piece of work. The > performances by the large and distinguished cast (Kris Kristofferson, Isabel > Adjani, Sam Waterston, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Brad > Dourif, etc.) are all first rate, in a few cases the best work the > performers have ever done. The film looks like it cost a lot, and is > beautifully photographed. The action sequences are very nicely done and > quite exciting. The political position is rather simple minded, but when > has Hollywood been the bastion of political evenhandedness? Given the > chance (somewhat hard to come by), see "Heaven's Gate", particularly if > you can see the original, 3 1/2 hour version. > Peter Reiher > reiher@ucla-cs.arpa > {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher I thought the 3 1/2 hour was excelent. I had the chance to see it a few months ago on The Movie Channel. I had heard that the longer version of the film was far superior than the hacked version before I came here, and when I spotted the film in the tv listings, made damn sure I wasn't going to miss it. -- [ You called all the way from America - Joan Armatrading ] [ You're never alone with a rubber duck - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || From the keys of Richard Jeffreys ( British Citizen Overseas ) || || @ AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || General disclamer about anything and everything that I may have typed. || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------