Limited to 1 edition per order
The masterpiece that shattered Hollywood
Limited and numbered prestige box - New 2K restoration
In 1870, a new graduating class from Harvard celebrated with pomp and panache the promise of a bright future. Twenty years later in Wyoming, the paths of two of its leaders cross again. Now sheriff of Johnson County, James Averill sees his authority challenged by the Cattle Breeders' Association, which includes his former friend Billy, who has become a cynical and cowardly man. The association stigmatizes the European immigrants who came in large numbers to settle in these virgin lands. Supported in secret by the federal government, the breeders drew up a black list of immigrants to be slaughtered as an example. Lonely, Sheriff Averill stands up against this programmed massacre, endangering his own life as well as that of the woman he loves, a foreign prostitute named Ella...
In 1978, when Journey to the End of Hell sounded the triumph of auteur cinema in Hollywood, its director Michael Cimino undertook a crazy project, in love with grandeur and authenticity, which retraces one of the most scandalous episodes of the creation of the United States. Thus was born La Porte du paradis , a river story set in the heart of vertiginous landscapes, mixing the lyricism of great Russian literature and the romanticism of the masterpieces of David Lean. Taxed with anti-Americanism and megalomania, Cimino immediately passes from the rank of adored genius to that of cursed filmmaker; his film still symbolizes today the bankruptcy of United Artists, the famous studio founded by Charles Chaplin and DW Griffith. Nevertheless, La Porte du paradis remains a work with a unique breath carried by prodigious actors (the young Isabelle Huppert, radiant alongside Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt) and dedicated to the omnipotence of cinematographic expression. . An unmissable monument, finally presented in an integral version and restored in 2K digital!
THE GATE OF PARADISE
(1980 – Colors 216 mins)
new 2K restoration
THIS LIMITED AND NUMBERED PRESTIGE BOX CONTAINS
• DOUBLE DVD AND DOUBLE BLU-RAY™ COLLECTOR'S EDITION
• THE FILM SOUNDTRACK CD
• REPRODUCTION OF THE BOOKLET (20 PAGES) DISTRIBUTED DURING THE PREMIERE OF THE FILM
• EXCLUSIVE REPRODUCTION OF THE FILMING "BIBLE" (288 PAGES)
• A PORTFOLIO (44 PAGES)
• A BOOKLET (56 PAGES) BY MICHAEL CIMINO COMPOSED OF ON-SET PHOTOS DIRECTED BY SUSAN GESTON BRIDGES COMPRISING AN ESSAY BY JEAN-BAPTISTE THORET AND MANY ARCHIVES •
DUAL DVD COLLECTOR
DVD 1
. THE MOVIE (PART 1)
Original version with French subtitles
2.40 format respected • 16/9 compatible 4/3
Duration: 111 mins
. INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL CIMINO
. RETURN TO PARADISE (48mn)
Produced in 2013, a river and exclusive conversation with Michael Cimino directed by Michael Henri Wilson, author of Eastwood by Eastwood
. RESTORATION
. VINTAGE AND 2013 TRAILERS
DVD 2
. THE MOVIE (PART 2)
Original version with French subtitles
2.40 format respected • 16/9 compatible 4/3
Duration: 97 mins
. 4 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH:
. Kris Kristofferson (9 mins)
. Isabelle Huppert (23mn)
. Jeff Bridges (17 mins)
. David Mansfield (8 mins)
DUAL BLU-RAY COLLECTOR
BLU-RAY 1
. THE FILM
Original version with French subtitles
2.40 format respected • Duration: 217 mins
• INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL CIMINO
• VINTAGE AND 2013 TRAILERS
BLU-RAY 2
• RETURN TO PARADISE (50 mins)
Made in 2013, a fluent and exclusive conversation with Michael Cimino directed by Michael Henry Wilson, author of Eastwood by Eastwood.
• 4 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH:
. Kris Kristofferson (9 mins)
. Isabelle Huppert (24 mins)
. Jeff Bridges (18 mins)
. David Mansfield (9 mins)
• RESTORATION
Released November 20, 2013
