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Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)

Posted By: angus77
Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)
2xDVD9 | Untouched | VIDEO_TS | NTSC MPEG2 16:9 720x480 VBR 29.97 fps | 1h 39 mn | 16.72 GB
Audio: English AC-3 5.1 @ 384 kbps 48.0 kHz | Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Menu, Scene Selection, Special Features | Genre: Drama, War | Country: USA

During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

I love the smell of a collector's edition in the morning. Everyone's favorite Joseph Conrad adaptation gets the fancy packaging and extras treatment with this release of Apocalypse Now - The Complete Dossier. Both the original theatrical cut and the 2001 Redux version are included, with enough extras to keep one occupied on a long boat trip. Calling this the "complete" dossier is sure to raise hackles among fans who insist that Eleanor Coppola's lauded documentary, Hearts of Darkness, which chronicled husband Francis's harrowing experience making the film, should have been included. (As of this review, Hearts of Darkness has yet to be released on DVD, so battered VHS copies will have to suffice.) Packaged in a cardboard "dossier" sleeve, the two-disc set includes Marlon Brando reading T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men," new production featurettes, and cast member interviews. Owners of previous editions of either of the cuts might consider how much they want all the officially sanctioned information on this edition. For newcomers to the Vietnam epic, this is an edition worth going crazy for.

Apocalypse Now (1979)
In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came one of the greatest films ever made. It began as a John Milius screenplay, transposing Joseph Conrad's classic story "Heart of Darkness" into the horrors of the Vietnam War, following a battle-weary Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a secret upriver mission to find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reverted to a state of murderous and mystical insanity. The journey is fraught with danger involving wartime action on epic and intimate scales. One measure of the film's awesome visceral impact is the number of sequences, images, and lines of dialogue that have literally burned themselves into our cinematic consciousness, from the Wagnerian strike of helicopter gunships on a Vietnamese village to the brutal murder of stowaways on a peasant sampan and the unflinching fearlessness of the surfing warrior Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), who speaks lovingly of "the smell of napalm in the morning." Like Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God, this film is the product of genius cast into a pit of hell and emerging, phoenix-like, in triumph. Coppola's obsession (effectively detailed in the riveting documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed by Coppola's wife, Eleanor) informs every scene and every frame, and the result is a film for the ages. –Jeff Shannon

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
Digitally remastered with 49 minutes of previously unseen footage, Apocalypse Now Redux is the reference standard of Francis Coppola's 1979 epic. A metaphorical hallucination of the Vietnam War, the film was reconstructed by Coppola and editor Walter Murch to enrich themes and clarify the ending. On that basis Redux is a qualified success, more coherent than the original while inviting the same accusations of directorial excess. The restored "French plantation" sequence adds ghostly resonance to the war's absurdity, and Willard's theft of Colonel Kurtz's beloved surfboard adds welcomed humor to the film's nightmarish upriver journey. An encounter with Playboy Playmates seems superfluous compared to the enhanced interplay between Willard and his ill-fated boat crew, but compensation arrives in the hellish Kurtz compound, where Willard's mission–and the performances of Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando–reach even greater heights of insanity, thus validating Redux as the rightful heir to Coppola's triumphantly rampant ambition. –Jeff Shannon

Special Features:

cc Audio commentary for both films by Francis Coppola
Exclusive featurettes
Lost "Monkey Sampan" scene
12 never-before-seen segments from the cutting room floor
Apocalypse then and now
Outtake: Marlon Brando`s complete reading of T.S. Eliot`s poem "The Hollow Man"
The Apocalypse Now A/V Club for aspiring filmmakers
Study the sound design and final mix of Apocalypse Now in depth
"PBR Streetgang" - cast members` reunion
The color palette of Apocalypse Now

Chapters:

Disc #1 – Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier - Act 1 & Special Features
1. Waiting in Saigon
2. Intelligence Compound
3. Willard Meets PBR Crew
4. Search and Destroy
5. Beach Party
6. Helicopter Attack
7. Kilgore Goes Surfing
8. The Tiger in the Jungle
9. Entertaining the Boys
10. Kurtz Dossier
11. Sampan Massacre
1. Waiting in Saigon
2. Intelligence Compound
3. PBR Street Gang
4. Search and Destroy
5. Where Can I Find the Co?
6. We Are Here to Help You
7. Beach Party
8. Helicopter Attack
9. Kilgore Goes Surfing
10. Kilgore Rescues Child
11. Lance Gets New Shorts
12. The Wind
13. Hiding From Kilgore
14. Never Get Out of the Boat
15. Entertaining the Boys
16. Centerfold Pinholes
17. No Satisfaction
18. Dilettantes
19. Kurtz Dossier
20. The Medevac
21. Sampan Massacre

Disc #2 – Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier - Act Two & Special Features
1. Do Lung Bridge
2. Mr. Clean`s Death
3. Arrow Attack
4. Kurtz Compound
5. Interrogation
6. Chef Decapitated
7. Caribou Sacrifice
8. Ending
9. Credits
1. Do Lung Bridge
2. Mr. Clean`s Death
3. The French Plantation
4. Clean`s Funeral
5. Dinner
6. Les Soldats Perdus
7. Arrow Attack
8. Kurtz Compound
9. Interrogation
10. Chef Decapitated
11. "How Does It Smell to You, Soldier?"
12. He`s Really Out There
13. Caribou Sacrifice
14. Ending
15. Credits

Director: Francis Ford Coppola (as Francis Coppola)

Writers: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola

Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall

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Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (1979/2001)