Apocalypse Now - Redux (2001)

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	Actors and Characters Marlon Brando - Colonel Kurtz Martin Sheen - Captain Willard Robert Duvall - Lt. Colonel Kilgore Frederic Forrest - Chef Albert Hall - Chief Samuel Bottoms - Lance Laurence Fishburne - Clean Dennis Hopper - Photo-journalist G.D. Spradlin - General Harrison Ford - Colonel

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Academy Awards - 1979 (52nd)

nominated 8 and won 2 ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - Robert Duvall {"Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore"} ART DIRECTION - Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson CINEMATOGRAPHY - Vittorio Storaro DIRECTING - Francis Ford Coppola FILM EDITING - Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman DIRECTING - Francis Ford Coppola FILM EDITING - William Reynolds, Peter Zinner BEST PICTURE - Francis Ford Coppola, Producer; Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg, Co-Producers SOUND - Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola

Movie Details
General Details Genre War Director Francis Ford Coppola Writer Joseph Conrad; John Milius Studio Miramax Language English MPAA Rating R Run Time 203 mins Country USA	Technical Details Screen Ratio Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) Layers Single Side, Dual Layer Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles DVD Date 11/20/2001 Discs 1 Library Index A04:087

Plot

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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Extra Features Features Not Specified	External Resources IMDB: Apocalypse Now - Redux Other: www.dvdtalk.com