Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
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Date: January 01, 1979 to December 31, 2019
Dates Note: 1979/2019
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United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope Description:
“The most important thing I wanted to do in the making of Apocalypse Now,” Francis Ford 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.” Forty years after its original release, Apocalypse Now returns to the screen with a newly restored cut (differing even from 2001’s Redux version), remastered in 4K from the original negative for the first time. Boasting a stunningly reworked sound design taken from recently discovered soundtrack masters, it’s an experience to be seen—and heard—in the theater.
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Afterimage: Walter Murch in ConversationDescription:
History will no doubt call Apocalypse Now, which brilliantly transposes Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness on Vietnam, the most astute, acute portrait of Americans at war in the post–World War II period. Francis Ford Coppola said his aim 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.” For David Fear of Rolling Stone, this version, prepared for the film’s fortieth anniversary, “is, in terms of storytelling and scope, a completely different trip up the river, through your acid-fried skull, and into the heart of darkness. . . . [T]his Apocalypse Now retains the center-can’t-hold insanity of its onscreen journey (and the offscreen legend of behind-the-scenes creative mayhem) that has always made this movie feel like a singular cinematic fever dream.” Coppola himself revealed, “I didn’t intend to make a new version . . . but I felt that this being longer than one and shorter than the other was the perfect blend.”
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