Intimate, first-hand documentary chronicle on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), a production plagued by an ambitious script,...
Intimate, first-hand documentary chronicle on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), a production plagued by an ambitious script, foreign shooting conditions, budget constraints and casting problems. The feat took its toll on the director's mental health, and nearly destroyed his career. Narrated by his wife, Eleanor Coppola and based on her excellent book of the same name.
Eleanor shot behind-the-scenes footage at the time and in 1990 compiled that footage - along with new interviews with the cast and crew - with her co-directors Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper.
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94 %9,431 reviewsAudience score rating
"At once anecdotal and revealing, this excellent film both illuminates the catastrophes that beset one particular project, and shows, by way of comparison, exactly what American film has foregone since the '70s."
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Time Out
Time Out"There have been few sharper portraits of the film maker as alchemist."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"The making of a film has never been documented with more penetration and truth."
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Roger Ebert
Roger EbertHearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Details
- Runtime
- 96
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- USA
