Some 20 years after Francis Ford Coppola's vision of the Vietnam War as Hell's Disneyland was first unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival as a "work in progress," the director found himself watching it on television and was startled to realize that the film, once perceived as "demanding, strange and adventurous," now looked positively conventional. Coppola began toying with the idea of returning to it, and in March 2001, he and editor/sound designer Walter Murch went back to the original dailies and spent six months remaking APOCALYPSE NOW in the editing room. They added entire sequences, lengthened others (adding 49 minutes to the 139-minute running time), and scroun...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
196 mins