$31.06
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns
FREE delivery Monday, September 23 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Or Prime members get FREE delivery Tomorrow, September 19. Order within 14 hrs 41 mins.
In Stock
$$31.06 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$31.06
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
Amazon.com
Ships from
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Returns
30-day refund/replacement
30-day refund/replacement
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Returns
30-day refund/replacement
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Heaven's Gate (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Kris Kristofferson (Actor), Isabelle Huppert (Actor), Michael Cimino (Director) Rated:
NR
Format: Blu-ray
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,183 ratings
IMDb6.7/10.0
Amazon's Choice highlights highly rated, well-priced products available to ship immediately.
Amazon's Choice
$31.06 with 38 percent savings
List Price: $49.95
The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. List prices may not necessarily reflect the product's prevailing market price.
Learn more
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime
FREE Returns
Additional Blu-ray options Edition Discs
Price
New from Used from
Blu-ray
November 20, 2012
Criterion Collection
2
$31.06
$29.31 $19.99
Blu-ray
December 3, 2013 		—
1
$26.98
$25.62 $25.47
Watch Instantly with Rent Buy
Heaven's Gate $3.99 $6.99
{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$31.06","priceAmount":31.06,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"31","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"06","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"PyxASFvIUIWuiJaVnsz541VlctMDO2oBkNGIIN%2B73sO2c4ZyEDfz1v357v5VC6RLUfELjIzOeJzTATwn%2F5mv7qoKQNmah6qwxc8W4HqJrV9i1%2Fxz3sdoJdksNDo9x49kMJor3sPvRwybcSynDKpvvw%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

Genre Westerns
Format Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC, Blu-ray
Contributor Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Michael Cimino, Kris Kristofferson, John Hurt
Language English
Runtime 3 hours and 36 minutes
Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping.

Frequently bought together

Heaven's Gate (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
This item: Heaven's Gate (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
$31.06
Get it as soon as Monday, Sep 23
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
+
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (The Criterion Collection) [4K UHD]
$26.07
Get it as soon as Monday, Sep 23
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Total price:
To see our price, add these items to your cart.
Details
Added to Cart
spCSRF_Treatment
Choose items to buy together.

Product Description

A visionary critique of American expansionism, Heaven’s Gate, directed by Oscar winner Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter), is among Hollywood’s most ambitious and unorthodox epics. Kris Kristofferson (Lone Star) brings his weathered sensuality to the role of a Harvard graduate who has relocated all the way to Wyoming as a federal marshal; there, he learns of a government-sanctioned plot by rich cattle barons to kill the area’s European settlers for their land. The resulting skirmish is based on the real-life bloody Johnson County War of 1892. Also starring Isabelle Huppert (White Material) and Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter), Heaven’s Gate is a savage and ravishingly shot demystification of western movie lore. This is the full director’s cut, letting viewers today see Cimino’s potent original vision.

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.40:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.6 x 5.3 x 6.7 inches; 4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 715515101110
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Michael Cimino
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC, Blu-ray
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 3 hours and 36 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 20, 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Walken, John Hurt
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008Y5OWMK
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,183 ratings

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars
1,183 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars I kind of stumbled onto this DVD, and so glad I did.
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2022
Verified Purchase
I had never seen it, though wanted to in 1980. Then the reviews and the media. It is a good example of how great work can go unrecognized due to critics or propaganda. I didn't expect too much. I was concerned that the prologue went on and on. I thought, uh oh, the critics may be right. It could have been done in half the time, but now I see it as one of Cimino's scenes that must have moved him, and it has later significance in the film. Once it shifts to Kristofferson heading west it becomes a great adventure. Scenes that critics lambasted are the greatest scenes in the movie or any movie. The Waltz in the prologue and the roller skating scene can be watched again and again. The pace of the movie was how it should unfold, as a real look at the west. The cinematography is was moving and beautiful. So many shots looks like you would want to hang them on your wall. The length of the movie lets you relax and watch things unfold. The dialogue which Roger Ebert called long scenes of people staring aimlessly into space is the way real people talk. Their words are measured. The phony dialogue in many tv shows and movies is cookie cutter fast talk with all the latest cultural buzz words thrown in. Sometimes I say, "do the makers of these films even know how real people talk?" Text messaging dialogue I guess.
Lastly I say that I am sad for Cimino and for the several others. It killed or slowed Kristofferson's acting career, even though his performance was very good. It ended Cimino's career to a great extent. The most tragic may be the 24 year old prodigy, David Mansfield, who wrote the mesmerizing score and other pieces, most notably the Heaven's Gate Waltz. He had been touring with Bob Dylan for 5 years. He submitted pieces for the film to use until it could get the real score. They had hired John Williams, who had done Star Wars 3 years prior. He decided to do a Boston Pops show instead. So they chose Mansfield. If the film had been given time to get edited as it is now, the film would have been much more popular, and Mansfield may have easily walked off the Oscar for best score. It gets in your head and stays. I compare it to Lawrence of Arabia in that regard. BTW, Mansfield is the "kid" that plays the violin and skates! Such talent! It is impossible to know how any of their careers would have gone if the movie was given a chance to be finished before it premiered.
Christopher Walken survived well and has thrived. His performance is brilliant. His scene the bedroom with Isabelle Hubbert is just perfect. His tragic character, Nate Champion, who is really a good man turned bad. His ongoing angst in the presence of Hubbert is one of the saddest depiction of unrequited love, ever. He would easily been nominated for best supporting actor. Jeff Bridges who plays kind of a drunk buffoon, does it perfectly and is great here.
I am surprised this is seen as some big political statement. There are no heroes or victims here. The immigrants were in a tough situation and we don't know why they chose or got placed there. But, they are not innocent by any means. They ARE stealing cattle. They trade cattle for sex, they get drunk and bet on cock fights rather than buy food for their families. And the cattlemen justify murder rather than a better solution. Both are despicable. But the immigrants did not have to be murdered that is why the good guys are on their side. So, I don't see it as a political statement at all.
Mix that all together with some of the greatest scenery in Hollywood history it does truly become a masterpiece.
18 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Christina
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best movies ever made!
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024
Verified Purchase
This movie attracts people who love it and those who don't. Reviews are personal and depend on the type of movie they see with their own thoughts, reality, beauty, ugliness, time, quietness and preconceived ideas as to how they view life. So, we don't see things the same way and that's "life". I, personally, found the movie to be in my top 5 best movies. I admire Michael Cimino as a director (he also directed "The Deer Hunter"), writer, painter, architect, naturalist along with his views of showing realism of the time & the beauty of nature (he goes to great lengths to show this in words and pictures). The men & women actors (Kristofferson, Walken, Bridges, Huppert, Hurt, Waterston, etc.) were so full of life with quiet & loud actions while showing the horrible/savage and good things that happened at that time. The Cinematography is absolutely amazing & bigger than life, as I was in awe of it This new uncut version is sooooo much better than seeing it in the horrible way it was cut in the original (studios only could see time limits and cost). The uncut version changes the movie to an absolutely different film (the cuts changed the plot, the way the actors would react and what was real). So, I adore this renewed uncut version. Don't waste your time with the one that was cut up so badly, as if people only see this version, they may not like the movie. I respect all reviews good or bad but just wanted to tell mine.
One person found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
R. Donahue
5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2024
Verified Purchase
Professional Transaction. Item as Described. Prompt Delivery.
A Masterpiece - not appreciated with its initial release - but - the director's cut is second to none.
More realistic than most fast guy draw westerns - which is why it probably did not fare well commercially.
Helpful
 Report
Andrew Mangravite
5.0 out of 5 stars Different Tales, Different Tellers
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2012
Verified Purchase
It appears that people are coming around to the conclusion that "Heaven's Gate" is not the worst film ever made. So what I want to concentrate are a few reasons why it got that reputation in the first place.
Let's start with the money. It's true that Cimino shot the budget to pieces on this film. In the director's defense I suspect that he would argue that it's all up there on the screen. But this type of spending will generate animosity on the part of both studio executives and film critics. It's happened before, notably when Brando was roasted for "One-Eyed Jacks." So to some extent the film was being willed to fail. People were incensed that Cimino spent United Artists into a hole and was quite unapologetic about it.
Now let's look at the politics. "Heaven's Gate" came out during Ronald Reagan's first term in office. The political Right was ascendant and the message of "Heaven's Gate" was not the message that they wanted to hear. They were more in tune with the message of Owen Wister's novel The Virginian, namely that property was sacred and a rich man's cow was worth more than a poor man's life. I suspect that with the Occupy Movement and the talk about "the 99%" more people would be in tune with the film's depiction of The Rich as heartless, self-serving bastards than they would have been in 1980.
Lastly, let's look at the film itself. One reviewer compared the film to "The Leopard," "1900" and "Once Upon a Time in America." this was quite telling. None of these film was a smash with the American movie-going public when they premiered. And the Leone's film suffered a fate similar to Cimino's in that it was edited into incoherency by a studio desperate to salvage something from the ruins. The moral seems to be that American audiences don't like to sit through really long films. Now, is it true that in the heyday of Hollywood, M.G.M. could have done the same story with Robert Taylor and Robert Walker and brought it in at under two hours? Absolutely. But it wouldn't have been the same film. And that's my final point. Cimino was the storyteller and he had to tell the story his way. When the film first came out, I remember a critic of repute (it may have been Pauline Kael or Judith Crist) remarking that while it was easy to see what could have been cut from the film, the difficult part was deciding what should remain. (I assume that she was seeing the uncut version.) I would respond that Cimino needed to take all that time depicting James Averill's graduation day at Harvard because Averill would later remark that it was the best day of his life. It was necessary to film the aging Joseph Cotten delivering his exhortation to the graduating class because they clearly regarded it as hot air, and had no intention of living up to its demands. It was necessay to film John Hurt's clownish, preening response because Hurt was the kind of guy who would wind up out in Wyoming, killing immigrants who had the temerity to rustle cattle from their betters. I simply can not see the wisdom of denying Cimino his way of telling the story which, incidentally, was identical to the method he used in "The Deer Hunter"--a film for which he was praised to the skies and declared to be a new director of genius.
11 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report

Top reviews from other countries

Translate all reviews to English
Rodolfo Durán
5.0 out of 5 stars Criterion Collection Edition
Reviewed in Mexico on July 16, 2023
Verified Purchase
La Puerta del Cielo fue el tercer filme de Cimino y uno de los más golpeados por la prensa estadounidense por una sencilla razón: Cimino no era amigo de periodistas, ni de productores, ni de nadie, Cimino no estaba para complacerlos y en represalia lo tundieron a él y a la película a palos.
Aunque hay que decir que Cimino tampoco es inocente, La Puerta del Cielo es una película compleja que por momentos puede llegar a parecer confusa y cansativa hasta para el cinéfilo más recalcitrante.
La edición de Criterion Collection entrega la versión final aprobada por el director antes de su fallecimiento en 2016, por lo tanto, solo queda sentarse y ahogar la melancolía junto con la obra incomprendida de Michael Cimino.
Report
TomNeil1
5.0 out of 5 stars Always gets a bad rap.
Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2022
Verified Purchase
I know this is a flawed film. It's narrative feels almost non existent at many points. And the stories of its long, expensive and troubled production are the stuff of legend.
But, despite all that I've always felt that Heavens Gate is a masterful film on a massive scale. It's honestly one of the most beautiful movies to look at from a production, set decoration and especially cinematography standpoint. And with this new Criterion bluray, the cinematography looks even better with the sepia filter taken off allowing the full color of the vast American landscape to really shine through without trying to give it that "old fashioned " look they were trying for originally.
2 people found this helpful
 Report
Persona
5.0 out of 5 stars Non è la versione restaurata supervsionata da Cimino
Reviewed in Italy on January 2, 2024
Verified Purchase
A mio parere uno dei più grandi capolavori della storia del cinema. Apparentemente un western, ma denso di significati con innumerevoli sottotesti. Grandissime caratterizzazioni dei personaggi, tra tutti: Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert e Cristopher Walken sullo sfondo della guerra della Contea di Johnson. Un episodio minore, ingiustamente dimenticato dalla storiografia americana. In particolare la scena del valzer tra Kristofferson e Isabelle Hupperp merita di essere annoverata tra le più belle sequenze cinematografiche di sempre. Ho acquistato anche l'edizione francese che dovrebbe essere uguale a quella della Criterion, ovvero la versione restaurata e supervisionata da Cimino, mentre quella tedesca acquistata un anno fa, credo che non fosse restaurata, ma aveva il vantaggio della lingua originale insieme ai sottotitoli in inglese. Purtroppo il film è ancora inedito in Italia, a parte il bel libro monografico di Giampiero Frasca, dove purtroppo è inclusa solamente la versione in DVD.
One person found this helpful
 Report
Kalas
2.0 out of 5 stars No English subtitles
Reviewed in Belgium on April 6, 2023
Verified Purchase
Should have been in description that subtitles are ONLY in German.
Report
Josep Cornet
5.0 out of 5 stars Una vision diferente de la "conquista" del Oeste. Gran dirección de Cimino, nacido en New York
Reviewed in Spain on September 29, 2022
Verified Purchase
No existen indios conflictivos.
La tension es entre blancos que ocupan tierra i ganado i recientes inmigrantes europeos que vienen sin nada, y que apenas hablan ingles.
Muy buena interpretación de la francesa Isabelle Huppert al lado de los sin tierra.
Kris Kristopherson, con titulo de Harvard, como alcalde acaba apoyando a los nuevos inmigrantes, aunque represente "traicionar" a los de su casta i algunos amigos
2 people found this helpful
 Report