Hearts of Darkness - A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
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Actor: Francis Ford CoppolaBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
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Movie Review: A NECESSARY COMPANION TO APOCAPLYPSE NOW
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're a fan of Apocalypse Now, this DVD is a necessary purchase. It gives essential insight into the creative process and bedraggled production of one of the greatest films of the 20th Century. The interviews are sometimes intense, some of them with cast members describing their surrealistic experience on the movie, many with a frantic, enraged Coppola (not aware of himself being taped), grabbing for a branch on the shore as the river hurtles him downstream towards an ending he hasn't even written yet. It's a story every bit as gripping as the movie itself.
Summary of Hearts of Darkness - A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is an engrossing, unwavering look back at Francis Ford Coppola's chaotic, catastrophe-plagued Vietnam production, Apocalypse Now. Filled with juicy gossip and a wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the stressful world of moviemaking, the documentary mixes on-location home movies shot in the Philippines by Eleanor Coppola, the director's wife, with revealing interviews with the cast and crew, shot 10 years later.Hearts of Darkness is an engrossing, unwavering look back at Francis Coppola's chaotic, catastrophe-plagued Vietnam production, Apocalypse Now. Filled with juicy gossip and a wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the stressful world of moviemaking, the documentary mixes on-location home movies shot in the Philippines by Eleanor Coppola, the director's wife, with revealing interviews with the cast and crew, shot 10 years later. Similar to Burden of Dreams, Les Blank's absorbing portrait of Werner Herzog's struggle to make Fitzcarraldo, the film chronicles Coppola's eventual decent into obsessive psychosis as everything that could go wrong does go wrong. Storms destroy sets, money evaporates, the Philippine government continually harasses the director, Coppola has romantic affairs, and he can't write the story's ending. Everything is captured on film. In the most disturbing scene, we watch Martin Sheen have a drunken nervous breakdown while his director goads him on (he eventually suffered a heart attack, but finished the film).
Other incredible footage is not visual, but aural as the film includes tapes Eleanor Coppola recorded without Francis's knowledge. In them, he truly sounds like a madman as he confesses his fears about making a bomb of a movie. But while Hearts of Darkness is an amazing, voyeuristic experience, its importance lies in the personal reflections offered by those involved. Sheen, Coppola, and Dennis Hopper speak frankly without embarrassment, offering us an essential piece of film history. --Dave McCoy
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