| Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Marlon Brando |
Colonel Kurtz
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| Martin Sheen |
Captain Willard
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| Robert Duvall |
Lt. Colonel Kilgore
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| Frederic Forrest |
Chef
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| Albert Hall |
Chief
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| Samuel Bottoms |
Lance
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| Laurence Fishburne |
Clean
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| Dennis Hopper |
Photo-journalist
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| G.D. Spradlin |
General
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| Harrison Ford |
Colonel
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| Sam Bottoms |
Lance B. Johnson
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| Aurore Clement |
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| 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 |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Adventure; Drama; War |
| Director |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| Producer |
Kim Aubry; Francis Ford Coppola |
| Writer |
Francis Ford Coppola; John Milius; Joseph Conrad |
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| Studio |
Miramax |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
203 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
8/15/1979 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
No |
| Index |
429 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
3/21/2005 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
097360962949 |
| Chapters |
36 |
| Release Date |
11/20/2001 |
| Subtitles |
English |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Dolby |
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