Cold Heaven
The book Cold Heaven was made into the movie Cold Heaven.
Book details for Cold HeavenCold Heaven was written by Brian Moore. The book was published in 1983 by Plume Books. More information on the book is available on Amazon.com. Brian Moore also wrote The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955), Black Robe (1985) and The Statement (1995). |
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Movie details for Cold HeavenThe movie was released in 1991 and directed by Ridley Scott, who also directed Blade Runner (1982), White Squall (1996), Heaven (1998), Black Hawk Down (2001), Matchstick Men (2003) and A Good Year (2006). Cold Heaven was produced by 20th Century Fox. More information on the movie is available on Amazon.com and also IMDb. Actors on this movie include Martin Hancock, Michael Sheen, Nathalie Cox, Eriq Ebouaney, Jouko Ahola, David Thewlis, Liam Neeson, Philip Glenister, Orlando Bloom, Bronson Webb, Kevin McKidd, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Steven Robertson, Marton Csokas, Alexander Siddig, Velibor Topic, Michael Shaeffer, Eva Green, Brendan Gleeson and Nasser Memarzia. |
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On the DVD
The Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut is truly a DVD set of biblical proportions. If you are familiar with Ridley Scott's excellent, albeit massive, extended DVD sets for Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, you have a pretty good idea of what you are in for with this set. The biggest difference--unlike the Gladiator Director's Cut, which had some nice new scenes that really didn't add much to the film--is that this cut of Kingdom of Heaven is a drastic improvement over the theatrical release. This extensive 194-minute version brings the film back to Scott's original vision, maintaining an impressive balance of history, plot, and believable period reenactments and battle scenes. The best way to describe the improvements on the extended version is the film is now able to breathe a bit more, it's less choppy, and it has stronger character development. In addition to the extended scenes (which now span two discs in a clunky Road Show presentation), there is an exhaustive three-hour, six-part documentary detailing every aspect of filmmaking from the development of the "idea" through post-production and release. Also included are three feature-length commentary tracks, the best being the first with Ridley Scott, writer William Monahan, and actor Orlando Bloom. Included on the original release but missing from this set are the A&E/History Channel documentaries, the theatrical cut of the film, and "The Pilgrim's Guide," the fantastic text commentary which pointed out the historical anecdotes as the film played. Fans of the film and completists will probably want to hold onto both versions. However, those picking up Kingdom of Heaven for the first time need only to look to this definitive version. --Rob Bracco