Film
Apocalypse Now – The Final Cut
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 183 mins
Sofia Coppola’s dad’s napalm-inhalingly magnificent ‘nam classic should need no introduction.
Fully restored in 4K from the original negative, this new 40th anniversary cut is billed as “Coppola’s most realised version of his multi-awarded classic”. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that the director has been here before with his 2001 ‘redux’, so there’s nothing here we haven’t seen before. What he’s done is to split the difference between the two versions, so this Final Cut is roughly 20 mins longer than the studio-imposed 1979 cut but 20 minutes shorter than the ‘redux’. He claims he’s now finally satisfied with the result.
This screening is followed by a filmed conversation between Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Soderbergh recorded at the premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2019.
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