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Apocalypse Now

April 2024

  • Eleanor Coppola on the Apocalypse Now set in the Philippines. A documentary about the turbulent film shoot, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, drew heavily on her footage.

    Eleanor Coppola obituary

    Chronicler of the making of her husband’s Apocalypse Now whose footage and recordings were the basis for a documentary and book

December 2022

  • ROBERT DUVALL, APOCALYPSE NOW, 1979,<br>2JD9684 ROBERT DUVALL, APOCALYPSE NOW, 1979, film still

    Ranked
    Robert Duvall’s 20 best performances – ranked!

    From the horse’s head in The Godfather to the smell of napalm in Apocalypse Now, no one does chilling menace like the 91-year-old Oscar-winner. With the release this month of his new film, we rate his greatest roles

June 2020

  • Apocalypse Now

    10 of the best ...
    From Platoon to Winter Soldier: 10 of the best Vietnam war films

    As Spike Lee releases new war drama Da 5 Bloods, we look back at the ways cinema has represented the 20-year conflict

April 2020

  • Nosheen Iqbal

    Notebook
    We live in stressful times, a perfect moment to try to turn off and tune out

    Nosheen Iqbal
    Don’t feel guilty about not doing the improving things you think you should do - focus instead on your mental health

August 2019

  • Karen Gillan<br>This image released by Disney shows Karen Gillan in a scene from “Avengers: Endgame.” (Disney/Marvel Studios via AP)

    So extra: how the director's cut became Hollywood's best ruse to milk fans dry

    They used to come out years after the original – and be quite different. Now films such as Avengers: Endgame are released in ‘new’ versions weeks after the original – and fans are lapping them up
  • Robert Duvall as Lt Col Kilgore

    Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film'

    Forty years since its first release, the director has been reworking his masterpiece for a definitive edition. How does he view his film – and the madness of its making – after all these years?
  • 1979, APOCALYPSE NOW<br>MARTIN SHEEN Character(s): Captain Benjamin L. Willard Film 'APOCALYPSE NOW' (1979) Directed By FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA 10 May 1979 CTF17676 Allstar/UNITED ARTISTS (USA 1979) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNITED ARTISTS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNITED ARTISTS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Apocalypse Now: Final Cut review – crazed exposé of the heart of darkness

    From Marlon Brando’s extraordinary cameo to Dennis Hopper’s crazed photojournalist, Coppola’s epic ‘definitive’ cut of his brilliant 1979 war film is triumphant in restating the inhumanity of empire

May 2019

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    The horror! Apocalypse Now unseen – in pictures

    Francis Ford Coppola’s wildly ambitious take on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness premiered at the Cannes film festival 40 years ago – and won the Palme d’Or. Next month, recently discovered on-set photographs by Chas Gerretsen will be shown for the first time at KINO Rotterdam

April 2019

  • “Apocalypse Now” - 40 Years And Restoration - 2019 Tribeca Film Festival<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 28: Francis Ford Coppola attends “Apocalypse Now” - 40 Years And Restoration during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival at Beacon Theatre on April 28, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)

    Is Apocalypse Now: Final Cut the best version we'll ever see?

    At this year’s Tribeca film festival, Francis Ford Coppola used the 40th anniversary of his Vietnam masterpiece to unveil a new version

March 2019

  • Rochelle Rose in Wolfram Lotz’s The Ridiculous Darkness.

    The Ridiculous Darkness review – Conrad, Coppola and the 'white saviour' complex

    A story from a Somali pirate kicks off this outlandish comic critique of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

September 2017

  • A still from the film Superman, with CHRISTOPHER REEVE as the titular man of steel.

    Film blog
    New edits and director's cuts: are they lost gems or simply second best?

    A three-hour extended cut of Superman: The Movie is being released for the first time, but can alternate versions of classics ever be more than poor relations?

March 2017

  • Martin Sheen

    The Q&A
    Martin Sheen: ‘Which living person do I most despise? Yellow Hair'

    The actor on Donald Trump, Apocalypse Now and saying sorry to his son

January 2017

  • 1979, APOCALYPSE NOW<br>ROBERT DUVALL Character(s): Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore Film 'APOCALYPSE NOW' (1979) Directed By FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA 10 May 1979 CTF17680 Allstar/UNITED ARTISTS (USA 1979) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNITED ARTISTS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNITED ARTISTS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    The best battle scenes ever shot from Apocalypse Now to Hacksaw Ridge

    The people behind the cameras, stunts and special effects on six classic war movies explain their creation

July 2016

  • Michael Herr

    Michael Herr obituary

  • Mike Herr on a 3/4 tonner, with the bride-to-be of the Cambodian Commander of Special Forces at Ba Xoia, 1968

    Words that will forever pursue us: Tim Page on Michael Herr, rock’n’roll voice of the Vietnam War

June 2016

  • Salim Mehajer

    Salim Mehajer says his wedding video is in same league as The Godfather

    Flamboyant former deputy mayor of Auburn is being investigated over allegations council planning decisions benefited him and his family members

April 2016

  • Tribeca Film Festival 2016<br>epa05269409 US film director Francis Ford Coppola attends Tribeca Talks Storytellers series at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, New York, USA, 20 April 2016. The Tribeca Film Festival runs from 14 April to 24 April 2016 EPA/PETER FOLEY

    Francis Ford Coppola on Live Cinema: 'I don’t know what I’m doing yet'

    Godfather trilogy director discusses his latest project, which will see him combine TV and film, during the Tribeca film festival

April 2015

  • Martin SHEEN in 'APOCALYPSE NOW' (1979)

    Film blog
    My favourite Cannes winner: Apocalypse Now

  • Catherine Shoard

    Film blog
    My favourite Cannes winner: The Conversation

    Catherine Shoard

June 2014

  • Don Draper from Mad Men

    Books blog
    Is Jeremy Paxman right about new poetry's inaccessibility?

    Do you agree with the Newsnight presenter that poetry has removed itself from popular culture? Can you think of examples that might make him think again?
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