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At last someone who admits that he likes Heaven's Gate. I think it is one of the most fascinating films in the history of American Cinema, irrespective of its production history (as well as of its multiple final cuts) yannis tzioumakis >-----Original Message----- >From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: 10 December 2002 14:34 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Who are these guys this time? > > >Hello, all.. >I'll play along. I'm a recovering film critic with over 20 >years experience in the vastly-misnamed "alternative" market. >I'm also (get those tomatoes ready) a dyed-in-the-wool >auteurist in the Sarris-Cahiers tradition. I'm an adjunct >faculty member at Webster University in St. Louis, currently >preparing classes on Theory and crit. and Fassbinder. Favorite >films/directors/theorists (in random order and subject to >change - I don't really like making lists): "Pinocchio" , >"Singin' in the Rain", "Blowup", "Celine and Julie", "Heaven's >Gate" "The Long Goodbye", "Once Upon a Time in the West" >Almost anything by Altman, Hawks, Godard, Rohmer, Truffaut, >Wenders, Peckinpah, Keaton... and always a good word for dear >Roland Barthes.. For personal reasons, I have seen fewer films >this year than any time in the last 40 years, so my favorite >film so far has been "What Time is it there?" > >Robert Hunt >