Apocalypse Now
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Duvall, Bacall to headline Nasher Salon Speaker Series...11. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!" Duvall roared in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic about the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now. For the sultry Bacall, her legendary line came in the 1944 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's... In this article: Robert Duvall, Lauren Bacall, Jim Lehrer, The Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times Herald, To Have and Have Not, Stephen Sondheim, Ernest Hemingway, and John F. Kennedy |
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Daily Express | 1 day ago
Steve McQueen's secret life
...and barely educated, McQueen made bad career choices, turning down the leads in classic movies including One Flew Over The Cuckoo s Nest, Apocalypse Now, Play Misty For Me, The Wild Bunch and Ryan s Daughter. He dumped Butch Cassidy And The...
In this article: Steve McQueen, Neile Adams, Paul Newman, Henry Hathaway, James Coburn, Hollywood, and US Marines
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | 2 days ago
Film reviews: The Informant! The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life Southern Softies
...the virtues of Angus Young is bad enough; the scene where Fleur mourns Kurt Cobain, or the one in which a doctor waxes lyrical about Apocalypse Now, almost reach Richard Curtis levels of knuckle-gnawing awfulness. SOUTHERN SOFTIES (U)
In this article: Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Mark Whitacre, FBI, Che, Lysine, and James Bond
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Detroit News | 3 days ago
Letters
The world has been ending since the beginning of time (Tom Long's Nov. 12 Think column "Apocalypse now"). Just as each second ticks off the clock, we grow ever closer to death and the world draws closer to ending. It makes for good movies,...
In this article: God, Jesus Christ, Compuware, IRS, FBI, and Kwame Kilpatrick
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thestar.com | 6 days ago
Stephen King takes us under the dome
...to have." Maybe they should talk about poetry, too. In a recent issue of Playboy, King's poem "The Bone Church" does a free-verse Apocalypse Now-ish, gloriously profane horror number on Kipling. Poetry? "I do quite a lot of it and I...
In this article: Stephen King, Under the Dome, David Cronenberg, Robert Browning, The Stand, Suicide, God, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, and Catholic church
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Miami Herald - 5-minute Herald | November 12, 2009
Isabella Rossellini discusses new book at Miami Book Fair International
...short online films that could be easily viewed on cellphones or iPods. ``If you see Apocalypse Now on your iPod, you really don't see the film,'' said Rossellini, who was introduced by Miami filmmaker David Frankel [The Devil Wears...
In this article: Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, Hialeah High School, Blue Velvet, Barbara Pierce, IPod, Miami, Florida, and Richard Powers
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New York Post: Entertainment | November 12, 2009
Common sense a casualty of anti-war script
...showing up uninvited at her husband's funeral dressed for a picnic. Foster, trying to be all Martin Sheen at the beginning of "Apocalypse Now" (lots of wall-punching and sleeping on floors -- he's miffed at his girlfriend for being...
In this article: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Stop-Loss, Flummery, The Messenger, Samantha Morton, Ryan Phillippe, Grace Is Gone, and Steve Buscemi
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The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories | November 12, 2009
Fight Club Turns 10
In this article: Fight Club, The Daily Beast, Laura Ziskin, Art Linson, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Capitalism, and Consumerism
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The Huffington Post | November 12, 2009
Bill Swadley: In Hollywood, There is No Such Thing as a Lone Gun
...get everyone's prompt attention. This doesn't mean that if one didn't go to school with a famous comic actor or their father didn't direct Apocalypse Now that there's no hope. It also doesn't mean that an actor needs to harass famous people...
In this article: Hollywood, Malcolm Gladwell, Beneficiary, Pop Tarts, Screen Actor's Guild, and Will Ferrell
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Detroit News | November 12, 2009
Tom Long: Apocalypse now: Armageddon scenarios reach fever pitch
Apocalypse now: Armageddon scenarios reach fever pitch It's in your local bookstore, on DVD rentals, all over television, and it's coming to movie theaters -- first on Friday with the disaster blockbuster "2012" and then on Nov. 25 with...
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L.A. Times - Movie Reviews | November 12, 2009
'Men Who Stare at Goats'
...the unit years after its inception, still operational if on the insane side. It's a little like stumbling into Brando's lair if "Apocalypse Now" had been a black comedy instead of just black. "Goats" is a lot of nonsensical fun and...
In this article: Ewan McGregor
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War. The plot revolves around two US Army special operations officers, one of whom, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) of MACV-SOG, is sent into the jungle to assassinate the other, the rogue and presumably insane Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando) of Special Forces. The film was produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script by Coppola and John Milius. The script is based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, and also draws elements from Michael Herr's Dispatches, the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim (which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness), and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972).
The film became notorious in the entertainment press due to its lengthy and troubled production, as documented in Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. Marlon Brando showed up to the set overweight and Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack. The production was also beset by extreme weather that destroyed several expensive sets. In addition, the release date of the film was delayed several times as Coppola struggled to come up with an ending and edit the millions of feet of footage that he had shot.
The scene changes to Chef attempting to call in the airstrike on the village as ordered by Willard. Chef is attacked and the scene cuts to Willard bound to a post outside in the pouring rain. Kurtz walks up to him and drops Chef's severed head into his lap.
- Name:
- Apocalypse Now
- Release Date:
- January 01, 0015
- Directed By:
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Produced by:
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Written By:
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- Novel:
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Screenplay:
- Joseph Conrad
- John Milius
- Editor:
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- Gerald B. Greenberg
- Richard Marks
- Walter Murch
- Lisa Fruchtman
- Starring:
- Narrated by:
- Martin Sheen
- Cinematography:
- Vittorio Storaro
- Music By:
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- Francis Ford Coppola
- Carmine Coppola
- Distributed By:
- Length:
- 202 minutes
- Language:
- English
- Studio:
- American Zoetrope
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