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Apocalypse Now

( Catalog Number LV23063WS )
(THX) (2.35:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (CC) (NTSC)

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Apocalypse Now
1979 - 153 min. - Color
Genre: War
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), rumored to have set himself up in the Cambodian jungle as a local, lethal godhead. Along the way Willard encounters napalm and Wagner fan Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall), draftees who prefer to surf and do drugs, a USO Playboy Bunny show turned into a riot by the raucous soldiers, and a jumpy photographer (Dennis Hopper) telling wild, reverent tales about Kurtz. By the time Willard sees the heads mounted on stakes near Kurtz's compound, he knows Kurtz has gone over the deep end, but it is uncertain whether Willard himself now agrees with Kurtz's insane dictum to "Drop the Bomb. Exterminate them all." Coppola himself was not certain either, and he tried several different endings between the film's early rough-cut screenings for the press, the Palme d'Or-winning "work-in-progress" shown at Cannes, and the final 35 mm U.S. release (also the ending on the video cassette). The chaotic production also experienced shut-downs when a typhoon destroyed the set and star Sheen suffered a heart attack; the budget ballooned and Coppola covered the overages himself. These production headaches, which Coppola characterized as being like the Vietnam War itself, have been superbly captured in the documentary, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. Despite the studio's fears and mixed reviews of the film's ending, Apocalypse Now became a substantial hit and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Duvall's psychotic Kilgore, and Best Screenplay. It won Oscars for sound and for Vittorio Storaro's cinematography. This hallucinatory, Wagnerian project has produced admirers and detractors of equal ardor; it resembles no other film ever made, and its nightmarish aura and polarized reception aptly reflect the tensions and confusions of the Vietnam era. Lucia Bozzola

Filmmaking masterpieces are often products of fate rather than design, and while Francis Ford Coppola's fierce ambition to create a great work of art is obvious in Apocalypse Now, the same ambition often threatens to crush the picture under its own weight. Apocalypse Now is an elaborate but often haphazard construction that starts to run out of gas at the three-quarter point without delivering a satisfying ending, and Marlon Brando's often lackadaisical performance as Col. Kurtz never lives up to the massive buildup the story gives it. And yet there are moments as powerful as anything Coppola (or anyone else) ever put on screen, and there are enough of them to make the film a flawed but unmistakable triumph. The air attack set to Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries and the Battle at Do Lung Bridge capture the terror and madness of war as few films have, and the further Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) and his men travel up the river, the deeper they are drawn into a surreal nightmare where right and wrong, danger and security, past and present, have begun to blur. Coppola also drew a superb performance from Martin Sheen as Willard; a fine but inconsistent actor, Sheen rarely had a role as good as Willard, and he rises to the occasion. There's also excellent supporting work from Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, G.D. Spradlin, and particularly Albert Hall, who, as Chief, has the burden of being the sole unambiguously disciplined and dedicated sold

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Cast for Apocalypse Now

Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, & Harrison Ford CAST:
Marlon Brando - Col. Walter E. Kurtz
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. Kilgore
Martin Sheen - Capt. Benjamin Willard
Frederic Forrest - Chef
Dennis Hopper - Photo Journalist
Samuel Bottoms - Lance
Albert Hall - Chief
Harrison Ford - Colonel
G.D. Spradlin - General
Bill Graham - Agent
Cynthia Wood - Playmate of the Year
Francis Ford Coppola - Film Director
Ron McQueen - Injured Soldier
Herb Rice - Roach
Tom Mason - Supply Sgt. Fourier
Jack Thibeau - Soldier in Trench
Glenn Walken - Lt. Carlsen
Jerry Ross - Johnny from Malibu
Vittorio Storaro - TV Photographer (uncredited)
Kerry Rossall - Mike from San Diego
Jerry Ziesmer - Civilian
George Cantero - Soldier with Suitcase
George Canters - Soldier with Suitcase
Linda Carpenter - Playmate
Colleen Camp - Playmate
Bo Byers - MP Sergeant No. 1
Damien Leake - Kilgore's Machine-Gunner
Scott Glenn - Colby
James Keane - Kilgore's Machine-Gunner
Marc Coppola - AFRS Announcer
Laurence Fishburne - Clean
R. Lee Ermey - Heliocopter Pilot

Crew for Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola - Producer / Screenwriter / Director
Michael Herr - Screenwriter
John Milius - Screenwriter
Vittorio Storaro - Cinematographer
Carmine Coppola - Composer (Music Score)
Lisa Fruchtman - Editor
Jerry Greenberg - Editor
Barry Malkin - Editor
Richard Marks - Editor
Walter Murch - Editor
Dean Tavoularis - Production Designer
Angelo P. Graham - Art Director
Gray Fredrickson - Co-producer
Fred Roos - Co-producer
Tom Sternberg - Co-producer
Bob Nelson - Set Designer
George R. Nelson - Set Designer
Charles James - Costume Designer
Lawrence James Cavanaugh - Special Effects
Tony Brandt - First Assistant Director
Jerry Ziesmer - First Assistant Director
Leon Chooluck - Production Manager
Barrie Osborne - Production Manager

Awards for Apocalypse Now

Best Adapted Screenplay (nom) Francis Ford Coppola 1979 Academy
Best Adapted Screenplay (nom) John Milius 1979 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) George R. Nelson 1979 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Angelo P. Graham 1979 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Dean Tavoularis 1979 Academy
Best Cinematography (win) Vittorio Storaro 1979 Academy
Best Director (nom) Francis Ford Coppola 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Richard Marks 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Jerry Greenberg 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Lisa Fruchtman 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Walter Murch 1979 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1979 Academy
Best Sound (win) Walter Murch 1979 Academy
Best Sound (win) Richard Beggs 1979 Academy
Best Sound (win) Mark Berger 1979 Academy
Best Sound (win) Boxer, Nat 1979 Academy
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Robert Duvall 1979 Academy
Best Film Francis Ford Coppola 1979 British Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor (win) Robert Duvall 1979 British Academy Awards
Fipresci Prize (win) Francis Ford Coppola 1979 Cannes Film Festival
Golden Palm (win) Francis Ford Coppola 1979 Cannes Film Festival
10 Best Films 1979 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Actor Robert Duvall 1979 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Direction Francis Ford Coppola 1979 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Supporting Actor Robert Duvall 1979 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Supporting Actor 1979 SOC
Best Director (win) 1980 Golden Globe
Best Supporting Actor (win) 1980 Golden Globe
100 Greatest American Movies (win) 1998 American Film Institute

Feature Details

Title: Apocalypse Now
Feature Release Date: 1979
Genre: War
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 153 Minutes
Chapters: 20
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

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LD Release Date: 1 Apr 1997
Catalog Number: LV23063WS
UPC: 013023508262
ISBN: 0-7921-4316-7
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Publisher: Paramount Home Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 4
Cover: Jacket
Certification: THX
Sound Analog Right: Dolby Digital 5.1
Closed Caption: English
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: LV23063WS
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper and Harrison Ford in...

Apocalypse Now

( Catalog Number LV23063WS )
(THX) (2.35:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (CC) (NTSC)

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Apocalypse Now
1979 - 153 min. - Color
Genre: War
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), rumored to have set himself up in the Cambodian jungle as a local, lethal godhead. Along the way Willard encounters napalm and Wagner fan Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall), draftees who prefer to surf and do drugs, a USO Playboy Bunny show turned into a riot by the raucous soldiers, and a jumpy photographer (Dennis Hopper) telling wild, reverent tales about Kurtz. By the time Willard sees the heads mounted on stakes near Kurtz's compound, he knows Kurtz has gone over the deep end, but it is uncertain whether Willard himself now agrees with Kurtz's insane dictum to "Drop the Bomb. Exterminate them all." Coppola himself was not certain either, and he tried several different endings between the film's early rough-cut screenings for the press, the Palme d'Or-winning "work-in-progress" shown at Cannes, and the final 35 mm U.S. release (also the ending on the video cassette). The chaotic production also experienced shut-downs when a typhoon destroyed the set and star Sheen suffered a heart attack; the budget ballooned and Coppola covered the overages himself. These production headaches, which Coppola characterized as being like the Vietnam War itself, have been superbly captured in the documentary, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. Despite the studio's fears and mixed reviews of the film's ending, Apocalypse Now became a substantial hit and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Duvall's psychotic Kilgore, and Best Screenplay. It won Oscars for sound and for Vittorio Storaro's cinematography. This hallucinatory, Wagnerian project has produced admirers and detractors of equal ardor; it resembles no other film ever made, and its nightmarish aura and polarized reception aptly reflect the tensions and confusions of the Vietnam era. Lucia Bozzola

Filmmaking masterpieces are often products of fate rather than design, and while Francis Ford Coppola's fierce ambition to create a great work of art is obvious in Apocalypse Now, the same ambition often threatens to crush the picture under its own weight. Apocalypse Now is an elaborate but often haphazard construction that starts to run out of gas at the three-quarter point without delivering a satisfying ending, and Marlon Brando's often lackadaisical performance as Col. Kurtz never lives up to the massive buildup the story gives it. And yet there are moments as powerful as anything Coppola (or anyone else) ever put on screen, and there are enough of them to make the film a flawed but unmistakable triumph. The air attack set to Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries and the Battle at Do Lung Bridge capture the terror and madness of war as few films have, and the further Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) and his men travel up the river, the deeper they are drawn into a surreal nightmare where right and wrong, danger and security, past and present, have begun to blur. Coppola also drew a superb performance from Martin Sheen as Willard; a fine but inconsistent actor, Sheen rarely had a role as good as Willard, and he rises to the occasion. There's also excellent supporting work from Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, G.D. Spradlin, and particularly Albert Hall, who, as Chief, has the burden of being the sole unambiguously disciplined and dedicated sold

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Cast for Apocalypse Now

Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, & Harrison Ford CAST:
Marlon Brando - Col. Walter E. Kurtz
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. Kilgore
Martin Sheen - Capt. Benjamin Willard
Frederic Forrest - Chef
Dennis Hopper - Photo Journalist
Samuel Bottoms - Lance
Albert Hall - Chief
Harrison Ford - Colonel
G.D. Spradlin - General
Bill Graham - Agent
Cynthia Wood - Playmate of the Year
Francis Ford Coppola - Film Director
Ron McQueen - Injured Soldier
Herb Rice - Roach
Tom Mason - Supply Sgt. Fourier
Jack Thibeau - Soldier in Trench
Glenn Walken - Lt. Carlsen
Jerry Ross - Johnny from Malibu
Vittorio Storaro - TV Photographer (uncredited)
Kerry Rossall - Mike from San Diego
Jerry Ziesmer - Civilian
George Cantero - Soldier with Suitcase
George Canters - Soldier with Suitcase
Linda Carpenter - Playmate
Colleen Camp - Playmate
Bo Byers - MP Sergeant No. 1
Damien Leake - Kilgore's Machine-Gunner
Scott Glenn - Colby
James Keane - Kilgore's Machine-Gunner
Marc Coppola - AFRS Announcer
Laurence Fishburne - Clean
R. Lee Ermey - Heliocopter Pilot

Crew for Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola - Producer / Screenwriter / Director
Michael Herr - Screenwriter
John Milius - Screenwriter
Vittorio Storaro - Cinematographer
Carmine Coppola - Composer (Music Score)
Lisa Fruchtman - Editor
Jerry Greenberg - Editor
Barry Malkin - Editor
Richard Marks - Editor
Walter Murch - Editor
Dean Tavoularis - Production Designer
Angelo P. Graham - Art Director
Gray Fredrickson - Co-producer
Fred Roos - Co-producer
Tom Sternberg - Co-producer
Bob Nelson - Set Designer
George R. Nelson - Set Designer
Charles James - Costume Designer
Lawrence James Cavanaugh - Special Effects
Tony Brandt - First Assistant Director
Jerry Ziesmer - First Assistant Director
Leon Chooluck - Production Manager
Barrie Osborne - Production Manager

Awards for Apocalypse Now

Best Adapted Screenplay (nom) Francis Ford Coppola 1979 Academy
Best Adapted Screenplay (nom) John Milius 1979 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) George R. Nelson 1979 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Angelo P. Graham 1979 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Dean Tavoularis 1979 Academy
Best Cinematography (win) Vittorio Storaro 1979 Academy
Best Director (nom) Francis Ford Coppola 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Richard Marks 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Jerry Greenberg 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Lisa Fruchtman 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Walter Murch 1979 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1979 Academy
Best Sound (win) Walter Murch 1979 Academy
Best Sound (win) Richard Beggs 1979 Academy
Best Sound (win) Mark Berger 1979 Academy
Best Sound (win) Boxer, Nat 1979 Academy
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Robert Duvall 1979 Academy
Best Film Francis Ford Coppola 1979 British Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor (win) Robert Duvall 1979 British Academy Awards
Fipresci Prize (win) Francis Ford Coppola 1979 Cannes Film Festival
Golden Palm (win) Francis Ford Coppola 1979 Cannes Film Festival
10 Best Films 1979 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Actor Robert Duvall 1979 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Direction Francis Ford Coppola 1979 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Supporting Actor Robert Duvall 1979 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Supporting Actor 1979 SOC
Best Director (win) 1980 Golden Globe
Best Supporting Actor (win) 1980 Golden Globe
100 Greatest American Movies (win) 1998 American Film Institute

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