Apocalypse Now
Digitally remastered with 49 minutes of previously unseen footage, Apocalypse Now Redux is the reference standard of Francis Coppola's 1979 epic. A metaphorical hallucination of the Vietnam War, the film was reconstructed by Coppola and editor Walter Murch to enrich themes and clarify the ending. On that basis Redux is a qualified success, more coherent than the original while inviting the same accusations of directorial excess. The restored "French plantation" sequence adds ghostly resonance to the war's absurdity, and Willard's theft of Colonel Kurtz's beloved surfboard adds welcomed humor to the film's nightmarish upriver journey. An encounter with Playboy Playmates seems superfluous compared to the enhanced interplay between Willard and his ill-fated boat crew, but compensation arrives in the hellish Kurtz compound, where Willard's mission--and the performances of Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando--reach even greater heights of insanity, thus validating Redux as the rightful heir to Coppola's triumphantly rampant ambition. --Jeff Shannon
Director(s): Francis Ford Coppola
Production: United Artists
Won 2 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 31 nominations.
The Horror. . . The Horror. . .
This is the end...
To the victims go the spoils.
MORNING SMELLS Some People Like Coffee. Some People Like Napalm.
It is impossible to describe what is necessary, to those who do not know what horror means. You must make a friend of horror.
CHARLIE DON'T SURF!
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