Technically, Heaven's Gate/The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino (@Cimino1939) isn't yet verified on Twitter, but we'll allow the man the benefit of the doubt: He's barely been Tweeting for 24 hours and already his account is a must-read.
1980's Heaven's Gate was such a notorious overbudget box office bomb that you can consider "pulling a heaven's gate" Hollywood shorthand for bombastic failure, and yet: "A number of inexcusable, misleading things have been said about me," Cimino Tweeted after his account sprang up yesterday.
With Heaven's Gate enjoying renewed interest and critical appreciation (not to mention the estimable Criterion treatment), engaging with cinephiles three decades later could be Cimino's ticket back into the game. "Being infamous is not fun," Cimino said last summer at the Venice Film Festival. Welcome to Twitter, Mr. Cimino!
Give the guy a follow here and cross your fingers for some real talk along the lines of these Tweets about his Heaven's Gate infamy, how he wanted to make The Empire Strikes Back as "a Western with lasers," and his vision for turning the Kevin Bacon punch-dancing classic Footloose into a Grapes of Wrath-esque musical comedy.
Film recommendation... or modified haiku?
Young people of the world / Watch the films of John Ford / All of them / They are the best.—
Michael Cimino (@Cimino1939) December 07, 2012
On Heaven's Gate breaking even — and only 32 years after release!
If Criterion's new edition of HEAVEN'S GATE sells enough copies this holiday season / It will finally break even / and we rewrite history.—
Michael Cimino (@Cimino1939) December 07, 2012
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