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  Apocalypse Now (1979)
"Apocalypse Now" was very well made and it seems that Coppola who was in his creative prime when he made the film (having completed "Godfather I and II" and "The Conversation" and then never coming even close to anything compelling after that) simply decided to desicrate this film.
The impact of this scene is taken away as the motivations of the crew are not as understandable anymore.
As far as "Apocalypse Now Redux" goes, for me, this version does not exist...nor will it ever exist.
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  apocalypse now
apocalypse now was my favourite movie in high school.
apocalypse now is based on joseph conrad's novel, "heart of darkness" which is one of the thickest books i have ever read (it's not long - it's dense).
Apocalypse Now has a tough fl sargeant, similar to Halo, but the Chief here is more of a straight arrow.
www.links.net /dox/flix/apocalypsenow   (872 words)

  
  Apocalypse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apocalypse (Greek: αποκαλυψις, literally: the lifting of the veil), is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the mass of humankind.
An Apocalypse in the terminology of early Jewish and Christian literature, is a revelation of hidden things given by God to a chosen prophet; this term is more often used to describe the written account of such a revelation.
Apocalypses of Adam and Abraham (Epiphanius) and of Elias (Jerome) are also mentioned; see, for example, the six titles of this kind in the "List of the 60 Canonical Books".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apocalypse   (2907 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American film about the Vietnam War directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script by Coppola, John Milius and Michael Herr, which was inspired by Joseph Conrad's classic novella Heart of Darkness.
Apocalypse Now was the first time Coppola worked with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who had shot several films for Bernardo Bertolucci, including The Conformist, one of Coppola's favorites.
Apocalypse Now is the best Vietnam film, one of the greatest of all films, because it pushes beyond the others, into the dark places of the soul.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apocalypse_Now   (6962 words)

  
 The DVD Journal: Apocalypse Now Redux
Apocalypse Now Redux, Francis Ford Coppola's re-fashioning of his 1979 Vietnam war story masterpiece, is on DVD after a brief 2001 theatrical run, and the film is just as good as it was on the screen.
Apocalypse Now has already been reviewed by The DVD Journal, and there is no need to supersede Greg Dorr's excellent summary of the film's virtues and vices.
Apocalypse Now Redux, like its predecessor, is about a soldier going up-river to look for a man. As he travels, the soldier encounters people and places that take him on a trip backwards into the past, a journey that exists parallel with his voyage north and forward.
www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/a/apocalypsenowredux.shtml   (2545 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now Redux
One that everyone remembers from Apocalypse Now is the near riot that occurs when the Playboy Bunnies twitch their tails as the modern version of Bob Hope entertaining the troops.
I saw Apocalypse Now in 1979 and other than the fact that it felt as if it was too close in time to the real war that it depicted, I figured the main difference would be that it would be easier to look at now that more time has passed.
Apocalypse Now Redux is surreal, dropping us into a jungle with surfing soldiers, Playboy Bunnies, a French plantation and the strange world inhabited by Kurtz.
www.reelmoviecritic.com /2001/id1844.htm   (1612 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Apocalypse Now /Redux (xhtml)
The most unexpected thing about "Apocalypse Now Redux" may not be the restored footage, however, but the new Technicolor dye-transfer prints.
The most famous is the assault on the village, opening with the helicopter loudspeakers blasting Wagner at the terrified students and teachers, and continuing with Lt. Kilgore (Robert Duvall) and his swashbuckling bravado on the beach ("I love the smell of napalm in the morning").
Longer or shorter, redux or not, "Apocalypse Now" is one of the central events of my life as a filmgoer.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010810/REVIEWS/108100302/1023   (915 words)

  
 DVD Review - Apocalypse Now Redux   (Site not responding. Last check: )
What makes "Apocalypse Now" and its newly minted offspring so compelling is that the madness of the narrative and characters somehow filtered into the actors and technicians depicting it.
"Apocalypse Now" did not content itself with simply regurgitating General William Tecumseh Sherman’s proverbial "War is Hell" mantra, they dared to make Willard’s voyage sensually and beatifically horrific, challenging the viewer not to succumb to Kurtz’s and possibly Willard’s descent into "inhuman" savagery.
Anyone who saw "Apocalypse Now" during the initial 70mm run likely remembers the rush from hearing the helicopter literally travel across the auditorium in the opening scene.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/apocalypse_now_redux.shtml   (1402 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now (1979)
Now that I have the DVD, I'm faced with two choices: watch the movie all the way through, or just stop it at some point.
Apocalypse Now appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.0:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
Now gave my system a nice little workout, as the effects showed fine accuracy and clarity, and they packed a neat little punch when appropriate, which was much of the time.
www.dvdmg.com /apocalypsenow.shtml   (2162 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now?
This prophecy is the key to the revelation of "The Truth" in the context of the Apocalypse (the word apocalypse literally means "revelation").
Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth; and (2) there were peals of thunder, loud noises, flashes of lightening, and an earthquake.
The first angel blew his trumpet, and (3) there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, which fell on the earth; and a third of the earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
deoxy.org /thetruth.htm   (1358 words)

  
 (DV) Gilardin: How Mankind is Sleepwalking to the End of the Earth
Now CO2 concentrations are beginning to exceed 370 ppm, and are rising from year to year.
He now says he will have to include additional melt-water from the Greenland ice sheet into his next set of data, because it appears that the melt has begun.
BAS scientists believe disappearing ice shelves are now contributing to more rapid melting of glaciers formerly protected by the floating ice shelf at their base.
www.dissidentvoice.org /Sept05/Gilardin0921.htm   (4159 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now Redux   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Apocalypse Now, and the answer is clearly that the additions – while not
Apocalypse Now Redux, this is essentially a totally new effort.
Kurtz is a highly decorated career soldier now leading his own private army – a group of local tribesmen – in mysterious activities condemned by his superiors.
www.culturevulture.net /Movies2/ApocalypseNowRedux.htm   (803 words)

  
 eBay - VHS: Apocalypse Now   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Apocalypse Now is arguably one of the greatest war films ever made, certainly one of the most controversial and also one of the most original and thought provoking.
Apocalypse Now is considered to be one of the all-time classic war movies as well as one of the top 5 films made about Vietnam (Other contenders for that title include Platoon and The Deer Hunter), yet the movie at heart is not as much a war movie as it is a psychological thriller.
Her observation has truth to it, yet the fact of the matter is that all of the characters in Apocalypse Now have gone insane to the same extent as the Jim Morrison lyrics that open the movie..
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 The Mediadrome - Film - Reviews: Apocalypse Now Redux
I was going to see a new, longer version of "Apocalypse Now," Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece and what is undoubtedly one of the greatest, most intensely provocative, mesmerizing, and haunting movies ever made.
It's no secret that "Apocalypse Now" was plagued by production problems unlike any a director had ever seen (or would see again until James Cameron's "Titanic" in 1997).
The original version of "Apocalypse Now," which came out in 1979 and clocked in at about 2 1/2 hours, contains what has to be some of the most shocking images in Hollywood history.
www.themediadrome.com /content/reviews/apocalypse_now_redux.htm   (836 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now Redux (2000)
Apocalypse Now Redux appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.0:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
For the old Now image, the actor who tells Kilgore that "This is Charlie's point!" was almost absent from the left side of the frame.
Without a doubt, Apocalypse Now fans will strongly want to give Redux a look as a curiosity; even though I didn’t like the added footage, it was very interesting to see it.
www.dvdmg.com /apocalypsenowredux.shtml   (3372 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now Redux (2001): Reviews
This is the untamed Apocalypse that Coppola envisioned in 1979 before money and mental pressures made him fear he had created something too long, too weird and too morally demanding for the masses.
Coppola and Murch have balanced their new edit with grace notes of sweetness, elegance and eroticism, and the payoff is grand, providing both a reprieve from the multiple blitzkriegs and a break in the monotony of the cruise up the Nung.
Now at age 32, I think it's one of the best-realized meditations on war and insanity ever made.
www.metacritic.com /video/titles/apocalypsenowredux   (1502 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The visual imagery, captured in still frame, is a classic depiction of war that easily could be reproduced as a stamp in memory of the horror of the Vietnam war.
Apocalypse Now is a splendid DVD, preserving for home video the enormously powerful images of Coppola and director of photography Vittorio Storaro.
Though you can't call this Apocalypse Now DVD a special edition, there is a small extra delight in the form of Coppola's commentary over the controversial end credit sequence.
www.filmsondisc.com /DVDpages/apocalypse_now.htm   (990 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Apocalypse Now (xhtml)
Francis Ford Coppola's film "Apocalypse Now" was inspired by Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad about a European named Kurtz who penetrated to the farthest reaches of the Congo and established himself like a god.
In any event, seen again now at a distance of 20 years, "Apocalypse Now" is more clearly than ever one of the key films of the century.
"Apocalypse Now" strings together one after another, with the river journey as the connecting link.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991128/REVIEWS08/911280301/1023   (1366 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now?
See now, that I, I am He - and no god is with Me. I put to death and bring life, I struck down and I will heal, and there is no rescuer from My hand.
Now let us study the enemies of our society, the people who are responsible for terrorism.
The uninterrupted success of the Western world, especially now that it has emerged triumphant over Communism, is an existential threat to the continued existence of fundamentalist primitive societies.
www.aish.com /torahportion/mayanot/Apocalypse_Now$.asp   (2879 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now Redux : film review
Now, twenty-two years later, Coppola has restored almost an hour of footage and has re-titled it Apocalypse Now Redux.
Apocalypse Now is everything one could ask for out of a movie, massive in scope and grand in its storytelling.
Apocalypse Now Redux serves as a reminder of a time where Hollywood was still willing to take chances instead of playing it safe and dumb.
www.musicomh.com /films/apocalypse.htm   (787 words)

  
 ReligionLink - 2005: Apocalypse now?
Five years ago, many people were fixated on the possibility of the Apocalypse, believing that a "cosmic transformation" - religious or otherwise - was imminent.
Now scholars say apocalypticism is alive and well but has shifted its focus on the world and U.S. stage.
Scholars say it is crucial to understand the apocalyptic and millennialist underpinnings of different groups and their agendas, from religious terrorists to those who welcome signs of an Apocalypse.
www.religionlink.org /tip_041213b.php   (1218 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now DVD at Video Universe
APOCALYPSE NOW was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2000.
APOCALYPSE NOW is number 28 on the American Film Insitute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.
Apocalypse Now is one of the finest examples of filmmaking ever.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/1138004/a/Apocalypse+Now.htm   (1191 words)

  
 "Apocalypse Now" Revisited - Mar 03, 2001 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Now that the film's been around awhile, it's something of a classic, so...we can edit it with more thinking about what the movie is and what the themes are."
Based loosely on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now stars Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, a secret agent sent into the Cambodian jungle to hunt down and kill Colonel Kurtz, a renegade officer played by Marlon Brando.
It will be a sort of homecoming for the Apocalypse Now, which won the coveted Palme d'Or when it debuted at Cannes in 1979.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,7900,00.html   (740 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Apocalypse Now: DVD: Marlon Brando,Martin Sheen,Sam Bottoms,Bo Byers,Colleen Camp,Robert Duvall,Laurence ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
Apocalypse now to me means the darkness and evil of today.
There is war going on right now as I am writing this and people loose their life and their happiness as close ones go to the other side.
www.amazon.ca /Apocalypse-Now-Marlon-Brando/dp/6305609705   (2170 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Apocalypse Now [1979]: DVD: Marlon Brando,Robert Duvall,Francis Ford Coppola,Martin Sheen,Frederic ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Francis Ford Coppola’s original 1979 version of Apocalypse Now is a dark, sardonic, surrealistic yet mesmerizing reworking of Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness.
Apocalypse Now is famous for having been difficult to make and for being controversial.
Being the greatest vietnam war film of all time, Apocalypse Now went through a 238 day shoot over 2 years, featuring typhoons that wrecked the sets, the phillipino government withdrawing their helicopters during shoots, and Sheen having a heart attack.
www.amazon.co.uk /Apocalypse-Now-Marlon-Brando/dp/B00004WCMT   (2823 words)

  
 Apocalypse Now - Rotten Tomatoes
Apocalypse Now is one of the great films because it is about every war ever fought and at the same time is about much more than men in combat.
Apocalypse Now has a philosophical underpinning that sets it apart from other recent cinematic evaluations of the American involvement in Vietnam.
Apocalypse Now is a mixed bag, a product of excess and ambition, hatched in agony and redeemed by shards of brilliance.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/apocalypse_now   (1195 words)

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