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EARTS OF DARKNESS:
A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE (1991)

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User Rating: 8.1/10   5,180 votes

Documentaire
96 minuten

geregisseerd door Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola en George Hickenlooper
met John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola en Sam Bottoms

De documentaire over het meesterwerk Apocalypse Now van Francis Ford Coppola. De documentaire combineert interviews met materiaal geschoten op de Filipijnen door zijn vrouw Eleanor Coppola. Je krijgt ook de problemen te zien die Francis Ford Coppola had met de natuur, regering, acteurs en zelftwijfeling.

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Studio: Paramount

DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007


Director: Fax Bahr | George Hickenlooper | Eleanor Coppola


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Hearts of Darkness is an engrossing, unwavering look back at Francis Coppola's chaotic, catastrophe-plagued Vietnam production, Apocalypse Now. Filled with juicy gossip and a wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the stressful world of moviemaking, the documentary mixes on-location home movies shot in the Philippines by Eleanor Coppola, the director's wife, with revealing interviews with the cast and crew, shot 10 years later. Similar to Burden of Dreams, Les Blank's absorbing portrait of Werner Herzog's struggle to make Fitzcarraldo, the film chronicles Coppola's eventual decent into obsessive psychosis as everything that could go wrong does go wrong. Storms destroy sets, money evaporates, the Philippine government continually harasses the director, Coppola has romantic affairs, and he can't write the story's ending. Everything is captured on film. In the most disturbing scene, we watch Martin Sheen have a drunken nervous breakdown while his director goads him on (he eventually suffered a heart attack, but finished the film).

Other incredible footage is not visual, but aural as the film includes tapes Eleanor Coppola recorded without Francis's knowledge. In them, he truly sounds like a madman as he confesses his fears about making a bomb of a movie. But while Hearts of Darkness is an amazing, voyeuristic experience, its importance lies in the personal reflections offered by those involved. Sheen, Coppola, and Dennis Hopper speak frankly without embarrassment, offering us an essential piece of film history.


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.37 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 96 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): English DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English | Spanish | French



DISC FEATURES:

# Audio Commentary with Filmmaker Francis Coppola and Documentarian Eleanor Coppola.

# CODA: THIRTY YEARS LATER - A brand-new documentary seen here for the first time:
Eleanor Coppola rejoins her husband as he directs his first new feature film in ten years, Youth Without Youth. Coda reveals an older Francis Coppola as he approaches independent "guerilla filmmaking" in a youthful way, with his small crew shooting in Romania making of self-financed personal film completely outside of studio control.


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