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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Film-as-opera, as spectacular as its plot is simple: Vietnam in mid-war, and a dazed American captain (Sheen) is sent up a long river to assassinate a renegade colonel (Brando) who is waging a brutal, unsanctioned war in Cambodia. Burdened by excessive respect for its source novel (Conrad's Heart of Darkness), this is a film of great effects (a flaming bridge, Wagnerian air strikes) and considerable pretension (quotes from TS Eliot). The casting of Brando is perhaps the acid-test: brilliant as movie-making, but it turns Vietnam into a vast trip, into a War of the Imagination.Author: CA
Cast & crew
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper, Larry Fishburne, Sam Bottoms, Harrison Ford full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 153 mins
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