![]() The Belcourt Theatre does not provide advisories about subject matter or potential triggering content, as sensitivities vary from person to person.īeyond the synopses, trailers and review links on our website, other sources of information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found on Common Sense Media, IMDband as well as through general internet searches. A longer directors cut, titled 'Apocalypse Now Redux', debuted on at the Cannes film festival. ![]() "APOCALYPSE NOW is not merely the greatest film to come out of the Vietnam experience, but one of the great works about the madness of our times." - The Guardian Winner of two Academy Awards (Cinematography, Sound) out of nine nominations including Best Picture, APOCALYPSE NOW stars Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne and Dennis Hopper, with a script credited to Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr. Now, this fine-tuned “Final Cut” stands as the director’s preferred vision. The 5-hour-long version of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, moreover, is considered to be the Holy Grail among them. A “Redux” version was released in 2001, including scenes and extra footage originally cut at the behest of the studio for commercial considerations. The Final Cut Of Apocalypse Now Is A Challenging And Riveting Reminder That Francis Ford Coppolas Film Is A Masterpiece In Any Form By Jason Gorber / Aug. When Willard finally engages Kurtz, he must reconcile how some acts of depravity must be condemned, while others are awarded medals of honor.Ĭoppola revisited the film twice. ![]() Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), Playboy bunnies, ambushes by tigers and bow-and-arrow wielding natives, and a dream-like compound of colonial French planters. I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one.” Army Special Forces operative Captain Willard (Sheen) is assigned to go up the Nùng River, find rogue Colonel Kurtz (Brando) who is now conducting a savage guerrilla war from his own fiefdom in Cambodia, and “terminate his command.” Teamed with an assortment of oddball conscripts (Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne, Albert Hall and Sam Bottoms), Willard’s journey upriver evokes a modern day Odyssey, replete with surfing and napalm-sniffing Lt. This is an overwhelming sensory experience, with deep colors and nuanced sound amplifying the film’s hypnotic effect.“Everyone gets everything he wants. “ Final Cut… demands to be seen, both by longtime admirers and by young viewers lucky enough to have their first viewing be in a theater. ![]() The just-right Final Cut splits the difference between the creative concessions of the original and the unwieldy sprawl of the Redux, a massive feat of film craft reined in to the general neighborhood of perfection… Coppola has at last gotten everything right where he wants it, which testifies to the real evolution of this project, as an insane risk that gradually vindicated everyone crazy enough to have believed in it.” - Charles Bramesco, The Guardian Nominated for eight Academy Awards, this classic and compelling Vietnam War epic. “The troubled production of Coppola’s psychedelic Vietnam war epic has already calcified into the stuff of industry myth: leading man Martin Sheen was nearly felled by a heart attack, second lead Marlon Brando showed up to set too overweight to believably portray a Green Beret, a monsoon seemingly sent by God destroyed thousands of dollars in equipment. Apocalypse Now 6 Disc Final Cut (4k UHD / Blu-Ray / Digital). Even if you’ve seen his legendary, phantasmagoric journey into the heart of darkness, you’ve never seen it like this. Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (2019) Rated R for disturbing violent images, language, sexual content and some drug use. Both a complete restoration and a new cut, Apocalypse Now: Final Cut represents his fully realised vision, trimming back some of the restored scenes from 2001’s Apocalypse Now Redux and returning to the original negatives and sound masters. Repartant des rushes de l’époque, il sort une version longue de son uvre, intitulée Apocalypse Now. And he cuts 20 minutes of film, to tighten it all up. Its presentation in Ultra HD is derived from that 4K image. Lionsgate remastered Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut from the original 35mm film elements. But above all, he returns to the editing room, the version Redux under the arm. Apocalypse Now comes to Ultra HD Blu-ray from LionsGate Home Entertainment featuring 2160pHEVC encoded video and lossless Dolby Atmos/TrueHD 7.1 channel sound. He takes the opportunity to renovate the work and release a 4K version. Forty years after it almost killed him, Francis Ford Coppola returns to the jungle one last time. En 2001, Coppola remet les mains dans le cambouis de son film culte. A final version In 2019, on the occasion of the forty years of the film, Apocalypse Now is once again reworked by its director.
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