Notorious as the movie that shot United Artists down in flamesꦚ and sank the career of director Michael Cimino, ཧ1980’s Heaven’s Gate ran spectacul💦arly over-budget and opened to some of the harshest reviews ever. (“An✤ unqualified disaster,” said The New York Times).

A grandiose Western based on the Johnson County War of 1892, when cattle barons brought in mercenaries to massacre immigrant settlꦍers, it suffers badly from narrative incoherܫence.

But there’s a grand romantic sweep to the action (enacted by a solid cast including Kris Kristofferson, Christꦰopher Walken and Isabelle Huppert), the set-pieces are majestic and its 🉐disenchanted view of the American frontier myth still rings ominously true.