If Apocalypse Now was a fascinating mess at its original 1979 release time of two-and-a-half hours, then is it going to seem deeper and richer and more coherent with nearly 50 minutes of additional, ...
Forty years ago, somewhere deep in the jungles of the Philippines, director Francis Ford Coppola crafted what was to become one of the quintessential war films of our time, Apocalypse Now. The film ...
"I think when Francis [Ford Coppola] did his longer version of 'Apocalypse Now,' it was worse than before," Schrader said. Paul Schrader is warning about the “slippery slope” of filmmakers revisiting ...
As I stood waiting one night 22 years ago to see Apocalypse Now the first time, watching the previous shellshocked audience file out of the theater, a friend broke away from that crowd with a beatific ...
There’s certainly a lot more footage–53 minutes, to be precise–which makes this better in certain ways than the original Apocalypse Now, though the flaws are also magnified. (Kurtz’s Cambodian savages ...
Apocalypse Now Redux is the definitive version of Francis Ford Coppola's stunning Vietnam War epic about a troubled Army Captain sent on an odyssey to assassinate renegade American colonel Kurtz.