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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Documentary · 1991
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.
The sides of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
- The shoot of Apocalypse Now in the Philippines
- Footage filmed by Eleanor Coppola
- A typhoon, a heart attack and a director near breaking point
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is good for you if…
- you like seeing how a famous film almost never got made.
- you like watching Francis Ford Coppola stake everything on one film.
- you like the strange scenes of Brando improvising in the dark and Dennis Hopper rambling.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is bad for you if…
- you want the battles of the film, not the chaos behind them.
- you find grainy 1970s home footage dated.
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