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Apocalypse Now
War is ongoing in Vietnam and U.S Captain Willard is appointed in Cambodia to end a mutinous colonel who is making the locals believe he is god.
13 July 1942, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 March 1951, Ferndale, Michigan, USA
24 March 1917, Saint-Jean-d'Angély, Charente-Maritime, France
1 August 1922, El Paso, Texas, USA
24 June 1940, Rome, Lazio, Italy
31 August 1920, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, USA
12 June 1946, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
17 October 1955, Santa Barbara, California, USA
30 September 1955, San Francisco, California, USA
16 September 1952, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
26 January 1941, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1 March 1949, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 October 1945, Soissons, Aisne, France
15 March 1927, Marseille, France
September 27, 2014
I'm revisiting and 'REDUX-ing' one of our five star film entries, to ensure that it is paid the dues it deserves. Let's get to it, with extreme prejudice.
July 02, 2013
reveals the horror of necessary madness.
February 09, 2006
...it's wonderful to see this hallucinatory folly-cum-near masterpiece again on the big screen.
January 04, 2012
Perhaps Francis Ford Coppola's greatest directorial achievement, Apocalypse Now is a visually stunning war film that has no equal, with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro capturing the films Philippine location to great effect.
December 10, 2016
Coppola's vivid-as-an-LSD-trip take on the madness of war is a one of a kind film, a mess-terpiece held together by sheer audacity and imagination.
January 02, 2013
With a famously horrific and documentary inspiring shoot it's almost unfathomable how Francis Ford Coppolla managed to harness the chaotic energy into one of the most potent examinations of war and masculinity to ever grace celluloid.
August 14, 2015
Certainly, no movie in history has ever presented stronger proof that war is living hell.
February 01, 2014
The word "apocalypse" derives from the Greek for "revelation," so in effect the title of Coppola's masterpiece is a call for us to wake up and stop lying to ourselves about who we are and what we did and what we still have the power to do.
July 21, 2005
Apocalypse Now did help provide me, and many of my generation, with a vision of what film art could achieve, a vision so magnificent it doomed us to spend much of our subsequent moviegoing lives in a funk.
May 25, 2011
A film of pure sensation, dazzling audiences with light and noise, laying bare the stark horror - and unimaginable thrill - of combat.
December 18, 2015
It's the cumulative effect generated by mixing richly portentous imagery with absurdly portentous prose, starkly portentous sound and flatulently portentous music.
July 02, 2007
Alternately a brilliant and bizarre film, Francis Coppola's four year 'work in progress' offers the definitive validation to the old saw, 'war is hell.'