Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven’s Gate (2004)

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A bracing look at a production gone horribly wrong, this doc is blunt about the inability of United Artists execs to control “Heaven’s Gate” director Michael Cimino from the start. Now synonymous with artistic folly and Hollywood’s indulgence of enfant terrible directors, the costly Western bankrupted the studio.