For this 40th Anniversary, we get the 181-minute Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, which retains much of the Redux material save for the Playmates scene. The bulk of this running time plays out in the rubber plantation sequence and a second Playboy Playmates sequence that's much darker than the Susie Q musical number. In 2001, Coppola released the 196-minute Apocalypse Now: Redux, adding back in everything from the cutting-room floor. To hear Francis Ford Coppola describe it, he shortened the film to reach mainstream audiences. It's a triumph of what cinema can achieve when transporting audiences and characters into visual stories.Īpocalypse Now first graced cinema screens in 1979 as a 147-minute Theatrical Cut. It's a movie that captures the madness of an era and film production, turning a million feet of film into beautiful, horrifying, chaotic poetry. I don't think there's ever been anything like it, before or since. For my two pennies, I can't express how much I love this movie. And along the way, our hero, a Captain named Williard, begins to lose himself in the madness of the jungle and the war.įor an in-depth and wonderfully written take on the movie, please read Josh Zyber's 2011 review of the Full Disclosure Edition. In this lose retelling of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a broken man returns to the jungles of Vietnam on a mission to terminate - with extreme prejudice - a US Colonel who has gone insane. John Milius Script Excerpt with Francis Coppola Notes (Still Gallery) Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (with Optional Audio Commentary by Francis and Eleanor Coppola) NEW: Tribeca Film Festival Q&A with Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Soderbergh 'The Color Palette of Apocalypse Now' Featurette '2001 Cannes Film Festival: Francis Ford Coppola' Featurette 'Heard Any Good Movies Lately? The Sound Design of Apocalypse Now' Featurette 'A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now' Featurette 'The Synthesizer Soundtrack' Article by Bob Moog 'Ghost Helicopter Flyover' Sound Effects Demonstration 'Destruction of the Kurtz Compound' End Credits (with Non-Optional Audio Commentary by Francis Ford Coppola)

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