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Apocalypse Now
International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, (2000) by Douglas Gomery
APOCALYPSE NOW
USA, 1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Production: United Artists; initial release in color, 70mm, Dolby sound; later releases in color, 35mm, Dolby sound with added footage of large-scale air attack which serves as backdrop for credit sequence; running time: 153 minutes, also 139 minutes. Released 1979. Filmed 1976–77, though pre-production work began mid-1975 and post-production lasted until 1979; shot on location in the Philippines; cost: about $30,000,000.
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Producer: Francis Ford Coppola; screenplay: John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola suggested by the novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; narration: Richard Marks; photography: Vittorio Storaro; editor: Richard Marks; sound: Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, and Nat Boxer; production designer: Dean Tavoularis; art director: Angelo Graham; original music: Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola; song: "This Is the End" by the Doors; special effects: A. D. Flowers.
Cast: Marlon Brando ( Colonel Walter E. Kurtz ); Robert Duvall ( Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore ); Martin Sheen ( Captain Benjamin L. Willard ); Frederic Forrest ( Chef ); Albert Hall ( Chief ); Sam Bottoms ( Lance ); Larry Fishburne ( Clean ); Dennis Hooper ( Freelance photographer ); G. D. Spradlin ( General ); Harrison Ford ( Colonel ).
Awards: Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, 1979; Palme d'Or (Shared with The Tin Drum ), Cannes Film Festival, 1979.
Publications
Script:
Milius, John, and Francis Ford Coppola, L'apocalisse e poi , from the collection Cinema e Cinema , vol. 24, Venice, 1980.
Books:
Coppola, Eleanor, Notes , New York, 1979.
Pye, Michael, and Lynda Myles, The Movie Brats: How the Film Generation Took Over Hollywood , London, 1979.
Kolker, Robert Phillip, A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman , Oxford, 1980; revised edition, 1988.
Adair, Gilbert, Vietnam on Film: From "The Green Berets" to "Apocalypse Now, " New York 1981; revised edition, as Hollywood's Vietnam , London, 1989.
Thomson, David, Overexposures: The Crisis in American Filmmaking , New York, 1981.
Chaillet, Jean-Paul, and Elizabeth Vincent, Francis Ford Coppola , Paris, 1984.
Zuker, Joel S., Francis Ford Coppola: A Guide to References and Resources , Boston, 1984.
Frundt, Bodo, and others, Francis Ford Coppola , Munich, 1985.
Belton, John, and Elizabeth Weis, editors, Film Sound; Theory and Practice , New York, 1985.
Weiss, Ulli, Das neue Hollywood: Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese , Munich, 1986.
Wood, Robin, Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan , New York, 1986.
Chown, Jeffrey, Hollywood Auteur; Francis Coppola , New York, 1987.
Palmer, William J., The Films of the 1970s: A Social History , Metuchen, New Jersey, 1987.
Cowie, Peter, Coppola , London, 1989.
Von Gunden, Kenneth, Postmodern Auteurs: Coppola, Lucas, De Palma, Spielberg & Scorsese , Jefferson, 1991.
Lourdeaux, Lee, Italian & Irish Filmmakers in America: Ford, Capra, Coppola & Scorsese , Springfield, 1993.
Lewis, Jon, Whom God Wishes to Destroy: Francis Coppola & The New Hollywood , Durham, 1997.
Bergan, Ronald, Francis Ford Coppola-Close Up: The Making of His Movies , New York, 1998.
French, Karl, Apocalypse Now: The Ultimate A-Z , New York, 1999.
Horsley, Jake, Millennial Blues, from "Apocalypse Now" to "The Matrix": Vol II , Lanham, 1999.
Articles:
Carcassone, P., "Dossier: 1979: Francis Ford Coppola," in Cinématographe (Paris), March 1979.
"Testimonianza: La storia di Apocalypse Now ," in Filmcritica (Rome), May 1979.
Anderson, S. H., " Apocalypse Now Film Stuns Cannes," in New York Times , 21 May 1979.
Haskell, Molly, in Village Voice (New York), 21 May 1979.
Pollack, D., "An Archival Detailing of UA's Apocalypse Now since 1967 Start," in Variety (New York), 23 May 1979.
"Entretien avec Francis Ford Coppola," in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), July-August 1979.
Toubiana, Serge, in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), July-August 1979.
McCormick, R., in Cineaste (New York), no. 4, 1979.
Honickel, T., in Film und Ton (Munich), August 1979.
Variety (New York), 15 August 1979.
Canby, Vincent, in New York Times , 15 August 1979.
"CinemaScore's 781 Interviews on Apocalypse Now ," in Variety (New York), 22 August 1979.
Bock, Audie, "Zoetrope and Apocalypse Now ," in American Film (Washington, D.C.), September 1979.
Geng, V., in New Yorker , 3 September 1979.
Kauffmann, Stanley, in New Republic (New York), 15 September 1979.
Thompson, R., "Francis Ford Coppola: Courte histoire d'un scenario: Entretien avec John Milius," in Ecran (Paris), 15 September 1979.
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