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www.plume-noire.com - : Apocalypse Now Redux is without any doubt the most outstanding allegory on in cinema and probably the most ambitious war movie of all times. Though Coppola's work remains untouchable to date, it did inspire two other introspective films: Terrence Mallick's The Thin Red Line and Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick. more...
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www.chicagoreader.com - : It's hard to think of many movies where the great, the not so great, and the simply awful coexist quite as brazenly as they do in Apocalypse Now. This was true in 1979, when the movie clocked in at 150 minutes, and it's true 22 years later, when the new version, Apocalypse Now Redux, runs a third longer. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : The sheer ambition and audacity of Francis Ford Coppola's ''Apocalypse Now Redux'' dominated the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Coppola added 53 minutes of footage to his film on the Vietnam War that had received Cannes' top prize, the Palme d'Or, in 1979. After well-publicized accounts of shooting delays in the Philippines and cost overruns, Coppola had edited the original film to a conventional length and a format that he hoped would attract an audience. ''Apocalypse Now'' was both critically acclaimed and a financial success. more...
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