Apocalypse Now Redux: Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius

Synopsis:

In May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola unveiled a 'work in progress' cut of his film, Apocalypse Now, at the Cannes Film Festival. After winning the prestigious Palme d'Or, the convention-shattering film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and became a worldwide phenomenon. In 2001 Coppola introduced a new version - wholly re-edited from the original raw footage - that included forty-nine minutes of never-before-seen footage: Apocalypse Now Redux.

Apocalypse Now relocates Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, focusing on the hazardous mission of Captain Willard to find and terminate 'with extreme prejudice' a renegade American colonel in Cambodia.

Tags:

Categorised as:
Music, Stage & Screen
Sub-categories:
Screenplays
People & Characters:
Francis Ford Coppola
Genres & Themes:
Counterculture; Madness; Vietnam; War
Apocalypse Now Redux book cover

Selected edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571214846
Published:
28.11.2001
No of pages:
208
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