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Gates of Heaven / IFC Films presents ; a film by Errol Morris ; produced, directed, and edited by Errol Morris.

[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]

1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical Dolby Digital

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

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Errol Morris changed the face of documentary filmmaking in the US, and his career began with a remarkable tale of American eccentricity. He uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the basis for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry.

Criterion collection ; 751

Criterion collection ; 751.

Pet cemeteries.

Pet cemeteries.

Documentary films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Morris, Errol, film producer, film director, editor.

IFC Films, presenter.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Title from container.

Originally released as a documentary in 1978.

Fullscreen (1.33:1).

Gates of heaven originally released as a motion picture in 1978.

Also issued as part of a two disc set, including another Morris documentary, Vernon, Florida, which was originally released as a motion picture in 1981.

Special features: New 2K digital restorations supervied by director Errol Morris; New interview with Morris; Werner Herzog eats his shoe (1980), a twenty-minute film by Les Blank featuring Herzog fulfillin a bet intended to inspire Morris to complete his first feature; Footage of Herzog professing his admiration of "Gates of Heaven" at the 1980 Telluride Film Festival; Plus: an essay by critic Eric Hynes.

Director of photography, Ned Burgess.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, fullscreen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital mono.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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