Apocalypse Now [Full Disclosure] [3 Discs] [With Collectible Booklet] [Blu-ray]

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Overview

Coppola's visually dazzling masterpiece is a surreal, hallucinatory, epic tragedy about the horror of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army Intelligence officer is sent on a bizarre river journey deep into the jungle to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a renegade Green Beret who uses primitive tribesmen to wage his own war.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/19/2010
UPC:	0031398126195
Original Release:	1979
Rating:	R
Source:	Lions Gate
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	7:31:00
Sales rank:	10,254

Special Features

Disc 1; Apocalypse Now -; Audio Commentary with Director Francis Ford Coppola; ; Disc Two - New Video Interview with Francis Ford Coppola and Actor Martin Sheen; ; New Video Interview with Francis Ford Coppola and Screenwriter John Milius; New "Fred Roos: Casting Apocalypse" featuring never-before-seen original screen tests; Original 1938 Radio Reading of "Heart of Darkness" by Orson Welles; ; 2001 Video Interview of Francis Ford Coppola with Critic Roger Ebert - Presented in its entirety; ; Archival DVD Special Features; ; Disc 3 - Hearts of Darkness - The Ultimate Feature-length Documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now; ; Audio Commentary With Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; ; John Milius Script Excerpts with Francis Ford Coppola; Storyboard Gallery; Marketing Archive

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Martin Sheen	Capt. Benjamin Willard
Marlon Brando	Col. Kurtz
Robert Duvall	Lt. Col. Kilgore
Frederic Forrest	Chef Hicks
Sam Bottoms	Lance,Lance
Dennis Hopper	Photojournalist
Harrison Ford	Col. Lucas
Scott Glenn	Capt. Richard Colby
Albert Hall	Chief
G.D. Spradlin	Corman
Bill Graham	Agent
Cyndi Wood	Playmate of the Year,Playmate of the Year
Colleen Camp	Playmate
Linda Carpenter	Playmate
Jerry Ziesmer	Civilian
Bo Byers	1st MP Sergeant
James Keane	Kilgore's Gunner
Kerry Rossall	San Diego Mike
Ron McQueen	Injured Soldier
Tom Mason	Supply Sergeant
Jack Thibeau	Soldier in Trench
Glenn Walken	Lieutenant Carlsen
George Cantero	Soldier with Suitcase
Damien Leake	Machine Gunner
Herb Rice	Roach
William Upton	Spotter
Larry Carney	2nd MP Sergeant
Marc Coppola	AFRS Announcer,TV Crew Director,Photographer,Composer,Composer
Daniel Kiewit	Major from New Jersey
Father Elias	Catholic Priest
Jerry Ross	Malibu Johnny
Dick White	Helicopter Pilot
Vittorio Storaro	Member of TV Crew
Laurence Fishburne	Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Christian Marquand	Hubert de Marais (Redux version only)
Aurore Cl?ment	Roxanne Sarrault (Redux version only)
Michel Pitton	Philippe de Marais (Redux version only)
Frank Villard	Gaston de Marais (Redux version only)
David Olivier	Christian de Marais (Redux version only)
Chrystel Le Pelletier	Claudine (Redux version only)
R. Ermey	Heliocopter Pilot

Technical Credits

John Milius

Francis Ford Coppola

Michael Herr

John Milius	Screenwriter
Francis Ford Coppola	Screenwriter,Producer
Eva Gardos	Casting
Terry Leonard	Stunts
Terry Liebling	Casting
Joe Lombardi	Special Effects
Vic Ramos	Casting
Mark Berger	Sound/Sound Designer
Nat Boxer	Sound/Sound Designer
Richard Beggs	Sound/Sound Designer
Michael Herr	Screenwriter
Kim Aubry	Producer
Gray Frederickson	Producer
Shannon Lail	Producer
Fred Roos	Producer
Tom Sternberg	Producer
Steve Boyum	Stunts
George Berndt	Sound Effects
John Ashley	Producer
Eddie Romero	Producer
Mona Skager	Producer
Joe Benoit	Special Effects
Lawrence Cavanaugh	Special Effects
Nathan Boxer	Sound/Sound Designer
Walter Murch	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Filmmaking masterpieces are often products of fate rather than design, and while Francis Ford Coppola's fierce ambition to create a great work of art is obvious in Apocalypse Now, the same ambition often threatens to crush the picture under its own weight. Apocalypse Now is an elaborate but often haphazard construction that starts to run out of gas at the three-quarter point without delivering a satisfying ending, and Marlon Brando's often lackadaisical performance as Col. Kurtz never lives up to the massive buildup the story gives it. And yet there are moments as powerful as anything Coppola (or anyone else) ever put on screen, and there are enough of them to make the film a flawed but unmistakable triumph. The air attack set to Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries" and the Battle at Do Lung Bridge capture the terror and madness of war as few films have, and the further Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) and his men travel up the river, the deeper they are drawn into a surreal nightmare where right and wrong, danger and security, past and present, have begun to blur. Coppola also drew a superb performance from Martin Sheen as Willard; a fine but inconsistent actor, Sheen rarely had a role as good as Willard, and he rises to the occasion. There's also excellent supporting work from Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, G.D. Spradlin, and particularly Albert Hall, who, as Chief, has the burden of being the sole unambiguously disciplined and dedicated soldier in the film. Coppola was famously quoted as saying "This isn't a film about Viet Nam, this film is Viet Nam." If, like that war, Apocalypse Now doesn't quite achieve its objective, it comes close enough to stand as Coppola's last great film.