Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
The magic and madness of making Apocalypse Now
Overview
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
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- $1,394,661
- Production
- American Zoetrope, Zaloom Mayfield Productions
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Cast
Crew
- Writers
- George Hickenlooper,Fax Bahr
- Cinematography
- Steven Wacks,Larry Carney,Igor Meglic,Shana Hagan
- Composer
- Todd Boekelheide
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CRCulver
September 5, 2018
Francis Ford Coppola's film <i>Apocalypse Now</i> was one of the most infamously troubled productions in the history of Hollywood, so resonating in collective memory that it can still be parodied in new-millennium like <i>Tropic Thunder</i>. A typhoon struck the set in the Philippines, local officials were difficult to work with, Martin Sheen had a heart attack during filming, and Coppola was constantly troubled how to bring his script to a powerful ending. The 1991 documentary <i>Hearts of Dark…
Wuchak
August 1, 2019
***Outstanding documentary on the making of the hallowed "Apocalypse Now"*** Released in 1991, "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" chronicles the making of 1979's "Apocalypse Now," combining footage shot by Eleanor Coppola during the shooting of the film with more recent interviews with the cast & crew. Documentaries or commentaries on how a particular film was made don't interest me because I'm not a filmmaker and only care about the final product. As a writer and former musici…