Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (Apocalypse Now / Apocalypse Now Redux)
by Francis Ford Coppola
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Actor: Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert DuvallDirector: Francis Ford Coppola
Brand: BRANDO,MARLON
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); Vietnamese (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2:1
Running Time: 153 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (Apocalypse Now / Apocalypse Now Redux)
DVD Review: One Of The Greatest Cinematic Masterpieces Sees A Definitve DVD Release
Summary: 5 Stars
MOVIE: "We are the Hollow Men", reads Colonel Kurtz as he recites T.S. Eliot's poem in the shadows of his tomb. A man who has seen too much and has experienced the unthinkable. A mind that has broken in two and is now in shock with the world of men and has established himself as an enlightened being. Captain Willard (Sheen) has been assigned on a classified mission to head up river into Cambodia where Colonel Kurtz resides among a native tribe. The Colonel has been charged with murder, charged with murder in the middle of a war. They believe he has gone insane, that the war has warped his mind and he must be killed.
Now Coppola masterfully carries the audience deeper and deeper into the jungle as we venture into the heart of darkness. The film is a masterpiece, a must own for any film enthusiast as well as the casual movie goer. The film is probably one of the darkest and most disturbing journeys you will take. A journey through the absurdity of war and how violence and power consumes us. Coppola himself almost went mad during the filming of this movie, and it's easy to see why. The scope of the film is huge, it carries so many characters yet never loses focus. The script is strongly influenced by Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, probably my favorite piece of literature. Our main character journeys into the heart of darkness and through this journey comes rebirth and enlightenment as well as risk and sacrifice.
The story is amazing, chilling, and haunting. The acting is some of the best captured on film, and the film's structure is flawless. I seriously mean that this a perfect film if there is such a thing. From the opening scene of the whooshing helicopter to the final words of Colonel Kurtz, the film is brilliant. Color is used strongly throughout the film to express changes in tone, and you as an audience member will be amazed by the stunning and beautiful cinematography. Apocalypse Now is part of our pop culture. How many times have you heard the quote, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"? Even if you haven't seen the film you know about the helicopter raid played against 'The Ride Of The Valkyries'. Now we have a definitive edition on DVD that brings us both the original 1979 film as well as Coppola's extended cut from 2001. Redux sees 49 additional footage added to the original, and the result is a more complete feeling to the overall picture. Even if you own the previous releases, this one is a required purchase.
VIDEO: The films are presented in 1.85:1 widescreen because Coppola wanted to make the most of the home theater experience. The picture is perfect, absolutely perfect. The transfers where enhanced to enrich the picture and the color and my god they are beautiful. The film shows no age at all, you would never guess that it was filmed in 1979. Perfect picture.
AUDIO: As for sound, well, holy cow! What would you expect from the first film to use a six channel audio mix and led the way to the now standard 5.1 surround mix? This film gave birth to surround sound, so of course sound was important to Coppola. The Dolby 5.1 mix is amazing! Right when the signature helicopter whooshes started in the opening scene I felt chills run up and down my spine as the sound traveled around the entire room. The disc is technically flawless.
SPECIAL FEATURES: The set is also packed with a great wealth of bonus features. The commentary by Coppola is amazing to listen to. We also get extensive featurettes into the technical side of the film (surprised?). This disc is a must own for any up and coming filmmakers because these special features are specifically aimed towards film students and technical junkies. We take a look at the film's sound, the film's cinematography, the film's digitally synthesized score, and we also get 26 minutes of deleted scenes that were not part of Redux! There is also a Redux marker that signals which scenes were added into the new cut of the film. Both movies are split across both discs, and so are the special features. Acts 1 of both cuts are on disc 1 and Acts 2 are on the second disc. The only thing people are complaining about is the absence of "Hearts Of Darkness", which is an extensive 'making of' documentary considered to be the best 'making of' ever produced.
BOTTOM LINE: "The horror! The horror!" Those lines may haunt you after the film is over, but the DVD set is not horrible at all. You owe it to yourself to own this set even if you have the previous ones. If you haven't seen the film then you must not care much for movies.
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Description of Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (Apocalypse Now / Apocalypse Now Redux)
Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this classic and compelling Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, who is sent on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American Colonel named Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a remote outpost. Also stars Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper and Harrison Ford.I love the smell of a collector's edition in the morning. Everyone's favorite Joseph Conrad adaptation gets the fancy packaging and extras treatment with this release of Apocalypse Now - The Complete Dossier. Both the original theatrical cut and the 2001 Redux version are included, with enough extras to keep one occupied on a long boat trip. Calling this the "complete" dossier is sure to raise hackles among fans who insist that Eleanor Coppola's lauded documentary, Hearts of Darkness, which chronicled husband Francis's harrowing experience making the film, should have been included. (As of this review, Hearts of Darkness has yet to be released on DVD, so battered VHS copies will have to suffice.) Packaged in a cardboard "dossier" sleeve, the two-disc set includes Marlon Brando reading T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men," new production featurettes, and cast member interviews. Owners of previous editions of either of the cuts might consider how much they want all the officially sanctioned information on this edition. For newcomers to the Vietnam epic, this is an edition worth going crazy for. --Ryan Boudinot
Apocalypse Now
In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came one of the greatest films ever made. It began as a John Milius screenplay, transposing Joseph Conrad's classic story "Heart of Darkness" into the horrors of the Vietnam War, following a battle-weary Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a secret upriver mission to find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reverted to a state of murderous and mystical insanity. The journey is fraught with danger involving wartime action on epic and intimate scales. One measure of the film's awesome visceral impact is the number of sequences, images, and lines of dialogue that have literally burned themselves into our cinematic consciousness, from the Wagnerian strike of helicopter gunships on a Vietnamese village to the brutal murder of stowaways on a peasant sampan and the unflinching fearlessness of the surfing warrior Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), who speaks lovingly of "the smell of napalm in the morning." Like Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God, this film is the product of genius cast into a pit of hell and emerging, phoenix-like, in triumph. Coppola's obsession (effectively detailed in the riveting documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed by Coppola's wife, Eleanor) informs every scene and every frame, and the result is a film for the ages. --Jeff Shannon
Apocalypse Now Redux
Digitally remastered with 49 minutes of previously unseen footage, Apocalypse Now Redux is the reference standard of Francis Coppola's 1979 epic. A metaphorical hallucination of the Vietnam War, the film was reconstructed by Coppola and editor Walter Murch to enrich themes and clarify the ending. On that basis Redux is a qualified success, more coherent than the original while inviting the same accusations of directorial excess. The restored "French plantation" sequence adds ghostly resonance to the war's absurdity, and Willard's theft of Colonel Kurtz's beloved surfboard adds welcomed humor to the film's nightmarish upriver journey. An encounter with Playboy Playmates seems superfluous compared to the enhanced interplay between Willard and his ill-fated boat crew, but compensation arrives in the hellish Kurtz compound, where Willard's mission--and the performances of Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando--reach even greater heights of insanity, thus validating Redux as the rightful heir to Coppola's triumphantly rampant ambition. --Jeff Shannon
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