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DVD Features:
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 3 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: May 18, 2010
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Lions Gate
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 2.00
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Subtitles - English
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall & Martin Sheen | |
Performer: | Frederic Forrest, Scott Glenn, Harrison Ford, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Albert Hall, G.D. Spradlin & Dennis Hopper | |
Directed by | Francis Ford Coppola | |
Edited by | Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Jerry Greenberg & Lisa Fruchtman | |
Screenwriting by | Francis Ford Coppola & John Milius | |
Original story by | Joseph Conrad | |
Composition by | Carmine Coppola & Francis Ford Coppola | |
Art Direction by | Angelo Graham | |
Produced by | Francis Ford Coppola | |
Director of Photography: | Vittorio Storaro |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
Entertainment Reviews:
...The film now seems mellower and -- thanks in part to the most vibrant-looking prints in its 22-year history -- revitalized... -- 4 out of 4 stars
USA Today
as Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) heads up river to assassinate Kurtz, his increasing admiration for the man is offset by his disgust at the scenes of more authorised insanity (and hypocrisy) all around.
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Projected Figures
The film holds together well enough until it reaches its final muddle, and it has scenes and moments unequaled in recent European or American movies.
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The New York Review of Books
This monumental apocalypse of napalm and helicopters ends up being a total spectacle of war, rarely achieved in film. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
...To have it in this beautiful print is a luxury....Now this is a movie...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Certainly, no movie in history has ever presented stronger proof that war is living hell.
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New York Daily News
...There's a verisimilitude about it that no digital trickery could match....[The film] will continue to astound...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic, loosely based on HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad, tells the story of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a special agent sent into Cambodia to assassinate an errant American colonel (Marlon Brando). Willard is assigned to a navy patrol boat operated by Chief (Albert Hall) and three hapless soldiers (Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, and Larry Fishburne). They are escorted on part of their journey by an air cavalry unit led by Lt. Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), a gung-ho commander with a love of Wagner, surfing, and napalm. After witnessing a surreal USO show featuring Playboy playmates, and an anarchic battle with the Viet Cong, Willard reaches Colonel Kurtz's compound. A crazed photo journalist and Kurtz groupie (Dennis Hopper) welcomes the crew, and Willard begins to question his orders to "terminate the colonel's command." Considered to be one of the best war movies of all time, APOCALYPSE NOW features incredible performances and beautifully chaotic visuals that make it a powerful, unforgettable work.
Released in August 2001, APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, a restored and updated version of the 1979 film, includes 49 minutes of never-before-seen footage, a Technicolor enhancement, and a six-channel soundtrack.
Released in August 2001, APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, a restored and updated version of the 1979 film, includes 49 minutes of never-before-seen footage, a Technicolor enhancement, and a six-channel soundtrack.
Keywords:
Big Battles
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Classic
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Psychodrama
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Vietnam
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War
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Assassination
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Jungle
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Military
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
Production Notes:
- Original theatrical release of APOCALYPSE NOW: August 15, 1979.
- Theatrical Release of APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX: August 3, 2001.
- Filmed on location in the Philippines.
- APOCALYPSE NOW was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2000.
- At the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, when Coppola screened his director's cut of the film, he said, "The result is a film that is fifty-three minutes longer, and whose theme emerges more clearly. It is a more disturbing, sometimes funnier and more romantic film whose historical perspective has become more forceful."
- The grueling production and Coppola's insistence on authenticity in making APOCALYPSE NOW led to vast budget overruns, as well as physical and emotional breakdowns.
- The film shoot was only supposed to take six weeks but ended up lasting for 16 months because of numerous complications, including a typhoon that wrecked much of the set.
- APOCALYPSE NOW is number 28 on the American Film Insitute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.
- Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack during the strenuous shoot. Prior to this, Sheen had a drunken emotional breakdown while filming the improvised hotel room scene. When he shatters the mirror with his hand in that scene, both the glass and the blood are real.
- Director Francis Ford Coppola had a nervous breakdown during the filming and threatened to commit suicide numerous times.
- When the film's budget went sorely over budget, Coppola contributed millions of his own fortune, which he had earned by making THE GODFATHER and THE GODFATHER II.
- Coppola briefly appears in the film as a newsreel director.
- Harvey Keitel was originally cast as Willard. He was fired shortly after filming began and was replaced by Martin Sheen.
- Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, and Al Pacino were all considered for the role of Kurtz.
- A Francis Ford Coppola private joke: The name tags on the army shirts of the two men (G.D. Spradlin and Harrison Ford) giving Willard his assassination orders are R. Corman and Colonel G. Lucas, Coppola's two director buddies.
- Marlon Brando was supposed to lose weight for his role as Kurtz but instead arrived on the set distinctly overweight. The actor also hadn't memorized his lines and insisted on improvising most of them.
- Larry Fishburne was only 14 years old when he played the part of Mr. Clean.
- Sam Bottoms was on various drugs for much of the filming.
- Coppola's wife, Eleanor, documented the chaotic filming of APOCALYPSE NOW in the 1991 film HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE.
- Orson Welles wanted to make a version of HEART OF DARKNESS in 1939. He got as far as storyboarding the film before abandoning the project for CITIZEN KANE.
- Tim Roth and John Malkovich starred in a made-for-televison version of HEART OF DARKNESS directed by Nicolas Roeg in 1994.
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- UPC: 031398123231
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