Apocalypse Now
1979 | War | USA | Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Overview
Vietnam via Conrad: a captain travels upriver to terminate the command of a rogue colonel gone divine. Production hell became legend: typhoons, a heart attack, Marlon Brando improvising in shadow. The helicopter assault to Wagner and the cult of Kurtz entered the culture. Won the top prize at Cannes. War as hallucination. The horror, the horror. The auteur gamble at its most excessive and most magnificent.
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