Editing Heaven's Gate (film) (section)

===Filming===
Cimino and his friends searched through 20,000 miles of land for scenery for the film.{{sfn|Medved|Medved|1984|p=175}} [[Principal photography]] began on April 16, 1979,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/finalcutartmoney00bach|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/finalcutartmoney00bach/page/6 6]|quote=heaven's gate april 16 1979.|isbn=9781557043740|title=Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film that Sank United Artists|year=1999|publisher=Newmarket Press|last=Bach|first=Steven}}</ref> in [[Glacier National Park (U.S.)|Glacier National Park]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Janiskee|first=Bob|title=Was "Heaven's Gate" the Worst Movie Ever Filmed in a National Park?|date=September 1, 2009|url=http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2009/09/was-%E2%80%9Cheaven%E2%80%99s-gate%E2%80%9D-worst-movie-ever-filmed-national-park4467|access-date=February 2, 2015}}</ref> east of [[Kalispell, Montana]], with the majority of the town scenes filmed in the [[Two Medicine]] area, north of the village of East Glacier Park.<ref name=idaho>{{cite news|last=Gapay|first=Les|title='Heaven's Gate' swings open|date=December 16, 1979|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=February 2, 2015|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1979/12/16/#page/204/article/movies}}</ref> Shooting also included the town of [[Wallace, Idaho]].<ref name=idaho/> Harvard University refused to allow the film to be shot there, reportedly because of Cimino's excessive demands for the film set, and the film's prologue was instead shot at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name="oxford">{{cite web |title=Heaven's Gate |url=http://hertford.ox.ac.uk/news/heavens-gate-flashbackfriday |website=Hertford College, University of Oxford |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=20 January 2022 |archive-date=January 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116131434/https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/news/heavens-gate-flashbackfriday |url-status=dead }}</ref> The project had a December 14 projected release date<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/finalcutartmoney00bach|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/finalcutartmoney00bach/page/202 202]|quote=heaven's gate December 14, 1979.|isbn=9781557043740|title=Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film that Sank United Artists|year=1999|publisher=Newmarket Press|last=Bach|first=Steven}}</ref> and $11.6 million budget, and promptly fell behind schedule.<ref>{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Bob|title=Will 'Heaven's Gate' ever finish?|date=September 19, 1979|newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19790919&id=5QEkAAAAIBAJ&pg=7116,2526636|access-date=February 2, 2015}}</ref>