Introduced by Walter Murch History will no doubt call Apocalypse Now the most astute, acute portrait of Americans at war in the post-WWII period. "The most important thing I wanted to do in the making of Apocalypse Now," Coppola said, "was to create a film experience that would give its audience a sense of the horror, the madness, the sensuousness, and the moral dilemma of the Vietnam war." Critical to this effect was the film's unique "sound montage," designed by Walter Murch. Sound is not "married" to image in the traditional sense; rather, as Murch has put it, "Image and sound are linked together in a dance. And like some kinds of dance, they do not always have to be clasping each other around the waist: they can go off and dance on their own" (in Theory and Practice: Film Sound). Tonight's screening celebrates PFA's new Dolby system as well as Francis Coppola's generous donation to the PFA Collection of an excellent print of Apocalypse Now.